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“This is the level of play this team is capable of. We as a team discuss how, if we work together, we will see results like we saw tonight. This is an amazing team with a high level of talent. Combining all the strong pieces we have, to create a winning powerhouse team is who we are, and it showed tonight,” Alpine Head Coach Rick Garcia told the Avalanche after Tuesday night’s game in Kermit.

Two weeks after its most debilitating loss of the season to El Paso Riverside, Alpine was on the other end of a blowout against another El Pasoarea team, the Tornillo Coyotes, cruising 47-0. It was all Alpine Bucks this past Friday night, and this one counts.

Football Oct. 21 @ Crane JV 6 p.m.

Alpine High School Project Graduation 2022 sponsored a cornhole tournament and taco sale at American Legion Post 79 on Oct. 16. In first place were Alex Gonzales and Camilo Celaya shown in the photo. All proceeds benefit Project Graduation 2022. Courtesy photot

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service in Texas has announced the first funding application deadline of Oct. 29 for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. A second funding application deadline will be Feb. 11, 2022.

Live theatrical productions have delighted audiences for centuries, and in the Big Bend area, Sul Ross State University’s theatre department has achieved that purpose by entertaining with unique experiences about all aspects of life.

On Saturday, Oct. 23, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Friends of the Ruidosa Church will host an open house at the recently restored building in Ruidosa on FM 170 west of Presidio. The church was built in 1915, but fell into disrepair, and by 2000 the Diocese of El Paso recommended it be torn down. In 2019 it was turned over from Presidio County to the non-profit Friends group for restoration and repair. Photo by Mike Green

A consulting firm based out of Houston has been in Marathon surveying the town for potentially significant historic buildings from Tuesday to Thursday of this week. The firm, McDoux Preservation LLC, helped the Gage Hotel gain a place on the National Register of Historic Places at the end of 2020.