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Creativity and dark skies awareness was celebrated by Alpine High School art students during the first annual Dark Skies Coloring Contest during the Earth Day festivities on April 22 at Kokernot Park. The students from Rachel Maxwell’s art class showed off their creativity. Student Lauren Penders, contest creator Judy Stokes, and AHS student Angelique Fox pause for a photo during the event. Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson judged the coloring book contest, with Fox coming out on top, Penders in third place winner, and Ysauel Munoz (not pictured) as runner up.

What was your favorite subject in school? Mimi Smith, Alpine: English and history. I love words and my father was a historian - he helped me with all my history stuff.

Angelo State University’s chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi national honor society recently inducted its spring 2022 class of 57 new student members, including Kassandra Acosta of Alpine, during a special virtual initiation ceremony on Facebook.

Alpine Humane Society Pet of the Week is Aldoine, a male about three years old. He is a long-haired black cat with so much love to give! He is currently the official greeter at the Alpine Humane Society Thrift Store. Please stop by and meet him.

Alpine Ambassadors will sponsor ribbon cuttings on April 28 at 5:30 p.m. at West Texas Italian Delicacies, 801 East Holland Avenue; Alpine Wine, 116 North Fifth Street, and Alpine Bed and Breakfast at 5:30 p.m. on May 6, both at Alpine Wine; and The Truck at 5:30 p.m. on May 7 at the corner of Holland and Fifth streets.

At the 7th annual Heritage Dinner at the Ritchey Building in Marathon on April 23, Chris Lacy, Ann Lacy Brown, Elizabeth Lacy Winn, and Lauren Jarratt accept the 2022 Heritage Award presented by Museum of the Big Bend to honor the philanthropic legacy of the o6 Kokernot Family.

The Boquillas Port of Entry within Big Bend National Park, providing access to the town of Boquillas, Mexico, will change to the summer schedule beginning Sunday, May 1. The port will be open Friday through Monday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

April 14, 1977 Augie Palmisano, center, holds the ribbons won by John Bullock’s vocational trades class at Alpine High School. Back row, Joe Rivera, George Acosta, Palmisano, Allen Brunzel, and Every Martinez; front row, Louie Hernandez, Larry Acosta, and Edward Miranda.