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The City of Alpine held its regularly scheduled city council meeting on Sept. 20, and a proposed monument honoring women in the military, code enforcement issues, and a strategic plan for the city drove the discussions.

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Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa, was a beautiful place to grow up. Lush green trees and wild game populated the bush, and the Atlantic Ocean and Mesurado River supplied endless fish. Far from the cities, families lived in very tight villages for community and safety.

Many of the primitive dirt roads and a portion of the paved Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive and Lost Mine Trail at Big Bend National Park have reopened following damage from heavy monsoon rains. High water flows are expected along the Rio Grande.

Dear Neil: We need some help identifying and controlling this wild growth. It originated where we had a nonproducing pecan cut to the ground last winter. It came up in the spring, and has grown more rapidly than anything we have ever seen. Should we dig it up and trash it, or will it turn into something desirable?

The Sul Ross State University Theatre Program celebrates its 101st season with Sarah Ruhl’s “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” opening Friday, Oct. 14, at the Studio Theatre in the Francois Fine Arts Building on the Alpine campus.

Onions are to cooking what eggs are to omelets. They are as common as salt and pepper when it comes to culinary creations.

Director, Museum of the Big Bend A contemporary Southwestern pendant and necklace featuring Kingman turquoise, hand carved buffalo bone and hematite bead necklace. A set of Longhorns wrapped in full flower carved leather accented with a mane hair mecate, a collaborative work by father and son.