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On Monday, October 28, after an aerial and ground search by the National Park Service rangers and U.S. Border Patrol supported by helicopters from the TX Department of Public Safety and U.S. Customs Air and Marine Operations, searchers located the body of a 24-year-old hiker along the Marufo Vega...

The Alpine ISD Board of Trustees held its regular meeting on Wednesday, October 16, at 5:30 p.m. Single Member District 4 Jimmy Morris and Single Member District 1 Eddie Natera were absent. Single Member District 7 Vice-President Mary Mc-Callister led the meeting.

An incredible variety of birds call the Trans-Pecos home. Over 500 species have been documented across the region, representing 81% of the species known to occur in Texas.

Thanks to funding from the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) Legacy Restoration Fund, construction work on significant improvements to the Chisos Basin area of the park is expected to begin May 1 and continue for approximately two years.

HEAD OVER MEALS As George Costanza commented in the Seinfeld episode of ‘Soup Nazi,’ “I have to focus; I’m shifting into soup mode.” For many, that’s precisely what cooler temperatures signal to our brains: cooler weather equals bubbly pots of hot, delicious soup.

Some of you will rebuild the deserted ruins of your cities. Then, you will be known as a rebuilder of walls and a restorer of homes.

Borderlands Research Institute’s research assistant Asia Cornelius was awarded the Don Pendleton Memorial Graduate Oral Presentation Award for the graduate research presentation that scores the highest among those accepted each year at the Texas Section Society for Range Management conference.

Alpine Avalanche.

Dear Neil, I bought and planted Byzantine glads last fall. They came up and bloomed well this spring, but then their tops died almost immediately. I assume that’s normal, but I’m reworking that part of my perennial garden, and if they don’t come back, I’d like to plant something else.