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The Sul Ross Rodeo Team lost a significant amount of talent last year, most notably Tristen Hutchings who finished his Sul Ross rodeo career with National Championships in 2021 and 2023 and a Reserve National Championship in 2022. Along with Hutchings, the Sul Ross Rodeo Team graduated 20 seniors on a 34-person team.

Last Tuesday’s Alpine ISD school board meeting saw the long awaited STAAR testing results presented to the board, along with the monthly reports from each of the campus principals and final credits from Imperial and Parkhill. While all of this was standard in a monthly Alpine ISD board meeting, one of the last items on the agenda found Alpine ISD Superintendent Dr. Michelle Rinehart informing the board about a public schoolprivate school partnership that allows public schools to garner more state funding by coenrolling private school students in local school districts.