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The Texas Department of State Health Services has renewed its battle against rabies along the Texas border by airdropping vaccine bait from planes leaving Edinburg, Del Rio and Alpine. “Our goal is to vaccinate wildlife, with target species being coyotes and gray foxes, along the border to maintain herd immunity and to keep past variants from being reintroduced or new variants from entering Texas,” said Dr. Susan Rollo, director of the Oral Rabies Vaccination Program. “We will be delivering vaccine baits to 18 counties this year.” About 814,000 oral rabies vaccine baits will be dropped in the 29th year of the program.

Last Thursday, the City of Alpine held its’ first of four workshops centered around the data compiled at the town hall meetings that were held last year. City officials attending the first workshop included Marci Tuck, grant writer for the city, City Secretary, Geo Calderon, City Manager, Megan Antrim, Mayor of Alpine, Catherine Eaves, Ward 2 Councilor, Chris Rodriguez, Tourism Coordinator, Heather Yadon, Parks and Recreation board chair, Darin Nance, Director of Utilities, Keith Sager, and Director of Finance, Alicia Salinas.

A series of dry cold fronts sweeping through this next week brings the potential of increased wildfire risk to parts of the state, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. Currently, 69 counties are under burn bans.

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WEEK Alpine Humane Society Pet of the Week is T’Challa! T’Challa, named for a Marvel Cinematic Universe character, is a one-year-old black cat who came in as a stray. He is a confident-looking guy with a diffuse white star on his chest.

on the How do you feel about more and more TV shows moving to subscription streaming services? Sandra Alvidrez: I am not a big fan of it, before you know it you have so many streaming services because of certain shows you want to watch, the cost gets to be a little too much. Mary McCallister: We moved to Hulu Live awhile back and we like it.

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Dear Neil: Was this past fall’s heavy acorn crop due to the serious drought or just a random occurrence? Nut-producing trees are noted for being “alternate bearing.” They will have a heavy crop one year and a very light crop the next, swinging back and forth like a pendulum. Pecans are famous for it, but as you have noted, oaks act the same way.

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