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The Paisano Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution presented DAR Good Citizen Awards to seniors from six area high schools at an awards ceremony on May 1 held at First Presbyterian Church of Alpine.

Members of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church’s Danza Matachines held a taco sale on April 22 during the City of Alpine’s annual Earth Day celebration held at Kokernot Park. The group sold out of the Tex-Mex inspired food, as attendees enjoyed the Earth Day festivities at the park. Avalanche photo by Roxanne Hill

It is Cinco de Mayo today, and colorful and festive celebrations of Mexican-American culture and heritage will be rampant in Alpine this weekend. Residents and visitors will come out to mark the occasion with parades, fiestas, mariachi and Tejano music, and Mexican fare sure to tantalize anyone’s taste buds.

Early voting for the City of Alpine, Alpine ISD Board of Trustees, and two proposed Texas constitutional amendments is over, but voters can still go the polls on Saturday, May 7. During in person early voting, 425 cast ballots in the city election, 78 in the AISD election, and 459 in the constitutional amendment election.

A mounted color guard leads the way for Alpine’s Cinco de Mayo parade through downtown on Holland Avenue on May 4, 2019. This popular celebration returns to Alpine on May 7 after a two-year hiatus. Avalanche photo by Gail Diane Yovanovich

In south Brewster County, one may not associate the remote and vast area of land between Terlingua and Lajitas as something with the capacity to impact a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, but that is exactly what Southern Methodist University is doing.

Have you ever experienced a West Texas storm roll in? One moment the sky can seem bright and clear, and the next dark and gloomy. And the way you felt - did that change too? One minute we can be up and hopeful, and the next down and doubtful when circumstances change. For many of us, stress and doubt roll in and hover like a storm cloud of uncertainty. Its winds and hail threaten to damage our physical, financial, and social well-being. Perhaps anxiety has also crept in with the storm.

Brewster County Commissioners Court held its regularly scheduled meeting on April 26, and the issue of hotel occupancy tax violators generated plenty of discussion among County Judge Eleazar Cano, County Tourism Director Robert Alvarez, and commissioners.

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.