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April is National Gardening Month, so if you’re not already a gardener, now is the perfect time to try your hand at developing a green thumb. Experienced gardeners, in addition to “spring cleaning,” may want to learn a new skill or expand the scope of their gardens.

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Dear Neil: My HOA is giving a neighborhood a heads-up on enforcing lawn violations. I have lost much of my lawn to shade, slope, erosion, and drought. Who can I contact to assess my lawn and recommend what to do? I’m puzzled by whether I can reseed, or whether I should sod, and also if I should plant St. Augustine or Bermuda? What about buffalograss?

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Send your community events to kara.gerbert@alpineavalanche. com UPCOMING EVENTS April 13 Old Sheriff Museum Ribbon Cutting, 11 a.m.

Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) has recognized Keep Alpine Beautiful as one of 10 winners of the 2024 Governor’s Community Achievement Awards (GCAA) as an outstanding clean and beautiful community. KTB, in partnership with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), has awarded the GCAA to Texas communities for 55 years. Keep Alpine Beautiful will receive $130,000 for a landscaping project to be completed in collaboration with TxDOT along a state-maintained road.

The Terlingua folkloric dance group, Nueva Generacion, attended and competed in Lubbock recently at the longestrunning folkloric competition in Texas, the Viva Aztlan Festival. The group is separated into the children’s group which are middle school dancers and the adult group, which are high school dancers.