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Over the past six years as an AISD trustee I have learned a significant amount about rural public K-12 education, enrollment, and school finance challenges. This knowledge and experience make me a senior trustee on the board and thus, I hope, more impactful than I may have been in my previous terms serving as a junior trustee. I am committed to helping AISD students and staff be successful, and I want to raise my hand again for the opportunity and privilege to serve as a trustee to help be a part of the effort to find solutions to our rural school’s challenges.

1.In what activities did you participate in high school? In high school I didn’t do anything big, I just was being myself, not doing anything too huge if you know what I mean. 2.Who was your favorite teacher/coach and why? My favorite teacher is Mrs.

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Not all potatoes are created equal. In fact, while there are thousands of ways to prepare potatoes, those of us in Texas tend to do things a bit differently.

Early voting for the May 6 general election will begin next Monday, April 24 and continue until Tuesday, May 2. Polls will be open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Alpine Civic Center.

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The City of Alpine held its’ regularly scheduled council meeting on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the council chambers.

Last week, director Christelle Bois, currently of New York, descended on Alpine to film portions of her Amazon Prime series “The Story of Art in America.” Bois focused her efforts on local artists Pauline Hernandez, a ceramicist and muralist, Michael Stevens, a guitar builder, Dot Mainz, a local quilter, and printmaker Ramon Deanda. Bois’ focus for this series explores the vitality and diversity of art in America in small and medium- sized cities residing outside of the “art world” prominent in the large cities.

In an effort to clear a backlog of traffic citations which drivers have failed to address; the Justice of the Peace Precinct One Court in Brewster County will begin issuing “Notices of Failure to Appear Prior to Issuance of a Warrant”.

The Paisano Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution presented DAR Good Citizen Awards to seniors from five area high schools at an awards ceremony onApril 2, held in the hospitality room of the First Presbyterian Church of Alpine.