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The Brewster County Commissioners Court met for their regular meeting on Tuesday, November 14. Two students from Marathon were present at this meeting, they participated in the National History Fair recently, where they were ranked as top ten in the nation. The commissioner’s court gave them accolades and presented them with plaques to recognize their achievement.

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The Alpine City Council held its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, November 7. During this meeting, City Mayor Catherine Eaves declared November 17 to be “Herbert Moss Mills Day” on behalf of the city. Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Moss Mills was born in Alpine and served and died during WWII on November 17, 1954, in heroic action.

Starting November 18, the Museum of the Big Bend will be the temporary home and showcase for 58 of Graciela Iturbide’s black and white photographs from The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University.

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HEAD OVER MEALS Cheesecake. Need we say more? First of all, you had me at cheese.

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GARDENER’S MAILBAG Dear Neil: I noticed last night that I had about a dozen hammerhead worms crawling onto my porch. They were one to two inches long.

The Borderlands Research Institute (BRI) at Sul Ross State University recently announced that 17 of their students have been selected to receive a total of $122,750 in scholarships from 11 different sources, nine of those included were the result of a special fundraising effort celebrating BRI’s 15th anniversary. The Permian Basin Area Foundation, one of the largest contributors to scholarships in the area, donated a $15,000 challenge grant to help fuel the fundraising effort for those nine scholarships.