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The Alpine City Council met for its regular meeting on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the council chambers.

The EMS task force, a collaboration between the City of Alpine and Brewster County, held its third town hall Monday night at the Sul Ross University Center to deliver information on the status of 911 EMS services in northern Brewster County.

The Brewster County Commissioners met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday at 9:30 in the commissioner’s courtroom at the Brewster County Courthouse. All commissioners were present.

Early voting for the March 3 primary begins next Tuesday, February 17. Brewster County residents can cast their ballots beginning Tuesday morning and continuing through Friday, February 20, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Judge Val Clark Beard Complex at 203 N. 7th Street in Alpine.

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Before Hallmark, before longstemmed roses delivered to your door or your desk, before heart-shaped boxes of chocolates — there was St. Valentine. Actually, there may have been two. The history’s pretty murky, and includes legends about an early Christian priest (or was it a bishop?) martyred for (perhaps?) surreptitiously helping Christians to wed. So uncertain are the details, in fact, that in 1969 the Roman Catholic Church officially discontinued liturgical veneration of St. Valentine, though he’s still on the list of recognized saints.

Dear Neil, I lost my dwarf kumquat tree in a freeze. I’ve tried to find a replacement locally, but the various garden centers say they are not profitable to sell. Do you have any suggestions of where I might find one?