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The highest point in the Davis Mountains and surrounding region is Mount Livermore at 8378 ft. The Davis Mountains themselves are the second highest range in Texas, and result from the same geologic uplift and volcanic activity 35 million years ago that resulted in the Rocky Mountain chain. These mountains, representing a “sky island” separated from others by surrounding prairie, also block the westward flow of air, condensing it over the high peaks, often creating its own rain pattern.

To many of us it seems like just yesterday, but it was 50 years ago this fall that the 1972 Alpine Fightin’ Bucks experienced a magical season. The Bucks were coming off a year in which the previous years’ seniors lost in a Bi-District playoff game to the Ozona Lions and All State running back Ruben Tambunga.

Building relationships along with empowering and building a talented group of emerging soccer players is what drives Sul Ross State University head men’s Coach Jon Evan. Evan, a second-year coach for the Lobos, had a prior coaching stint at another rural college in Oklahoma in a town even smaller than Alpine, but is no newbie to the professional coaching world.

From Friday to Sunday, Oct. 7-9, Chinati will host a weekend-long program that is free to all.

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Judd Foundation will present “David Novros Paintings” on the ground floor of 101 Spring Street in Marfa from Sept. 20Dec. 18. The two works in the exhibition, “Boathouse” and “Untitled” Graham Studio Mural II, are large, polychromatic paintings, described by the artist as portable murals. Both are related to site-specific pieces, no longer extant.

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Alpine Humane Society Pet of the Week is Posie, a two-year-old brown tabby short hair. A sophisticated girl, she is petite.

Dear Neil: I have planted several Esperanza plants in various places around our yard. All they have done is grow quite tall. I have tried cutting them down to three to four feet, but it didn’t help to get them to bloom. Still no flowers at all, even though they’re in full sun. What can I do?