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The Alpine City Council held its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, March 5. During this city council meeting the retirement of the Alpine Police Department’s K-9, Artus, was approved.

Patricio Javier Serrano, 36, formerly of Marfa, was sentenced in a federal court in Pecos recently to 97 months or just over eight years in prison for one count of possession of child pornography and one count of transportation of child pornography according to information received from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas.

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Sul Ross State University will hold its Hall of Honor ceremony on March 23. In its 36th year, this annual ceremony inducts distinguished graduates and athletes who are nominated and then selected by the SRSU Alumni Board of Directors along with representatives of the Department of Athletics and the College of Agriculture, Life, and Physical Sciences (ALPS).

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Registered voters interested in casting their votes for the March 5 primary election prior to election day can still do so from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Val Clark Beard Office Complex at 203 N. 7th Street. There will also be early voting available today and tomorrow in Marathon from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Marathon Community Center for Precinct 3 and in Terlingua in precincts 5, 6, and 7 at the J.W. “Red” Pattillo Community Center.

Alpine High School is a school lacking a theater program or even a theater class and is the only school to enter the competition without an actual theater program. Yet, students interested in the arts and theater have managed to bring this to fruition despite these challenges, as they embark upon UIL One Act Play with the help of their advisor who financed the advertising for the group.

Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series on Sul Ross rodeo and Coach C.J. Aragon.

We are in the season of Lent. This is the time of year when we Christians move to selfrefl ect on the who, what, where, when, and why we have not loved God and our neighbors like Jesus has asked us to. It is a time of year when we repent or turn toward God. It is a time of year that is often associated with “giving something up” that we know is not really good for us, or to pray and fast in order to turn more fully to God and to prepare for the celebration of Easter after these 40 days of Lent.

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