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What if this life does not change? This question lingered in the back of my mind recently as I drove around my hometown, noticing how many old familiar places had been torn down or replaced with something new and strange to me. Maybe you can relate.

Tyler Straub from Detwiler/Road Runner Ranch won top hand at last weekend’s Big Bend Ranch Rodeo. Courtesy photo.

Do you ever get that craving for something sweet, but cake, pie, or cookies just won’t cut it? I find myself wanting something sweet from time to time, but nothing heavy, so I fall back on a family favorite - cottage cheese jello salad.

In recent weeks, suspects have used firearms to shoot at several U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas and California.

The Circle M8/Barnes Cattle team finished second overall at last weekend’s Big Bend Ranch Rodeo at the SALE arena in Alpine. Courtesy photo.

The proposed tax rate and employee pay raises generated much debate at the Brewster County Commissioners Court regular meeting on Aug. 11.

A rite of passage for all hardcore Texas high school football fans kicked off this past weekend around the state. Like a kid unwrapping Christmas presents, each week brings a new gift - two-a-days started Aug. 2, midnight practice a fortnight ago, then the first varsity scrimmages were played this weekend, allowing football starved fans to get an introductory look at their hometown boys.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Aug. 12 at Sul Ross State University in Alpine for the future expansion of the Emmett and Miriam McCoy Building at Museum of the Big Bend. Present at the ceremony and holding the traditional groundbreaking shovels were TSUS Student Regent Camile Settegast, Dean of Educational and Cultural Resources April Aultman Becker, TSUS Regents Alan Tinsley, Regent Don Flores, and Nicki Harle, TSUS Second Vice Chairman Garry Crain, TSUS Chancellor Brian McCall, TSUS Chairman Charlie Amato, TSUS First Vice Chairman Duke Austin, Brian McCoy, Brenda McCoy Remme, Reid McCoy, and Sul Ross President Pete Gallego. Avalanche photo by Roxanne Hill