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In south Brewster County, one may not associate the remote and vast area of land between Terlingua and Lajitas as something with the capacity to impact a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, but that is exactly what Southern Methodist University is doing.

Have you ever experienced a West Texas storm roll in? One moment the sky can seem bright and clear, and the next dark and gloomy. And the way you felt - did that change too? One minute we can be up and hopeful, and the next down and doubtful when circumstances change.

Brewster County Commissioners Court held its regularly scheduled meeting on April 26, and the issue of hotel occupancy tax violators generated plenty of discussion among County Judge Eleazar Cano, County Tourism Director Robert Alvarez, and commissioners.

What was your favorite subject in school? Mimi Smith, Alpine: English and history. I love words and my father was a historian - he helped me with all my history stuff.

Angelo State University’s chapter of the Phi Kappa Phi national honor society recently inducted its spring 2022 class of 57 new student members, including Kassandra Acosta of Alpine, during a special virtual initiation ceremony on Facebook.

Alpine Ambassadors will sponsor ribbon cuttings on April 28 at 5:30 p.m. at West Texas Italian Delicacies, 801 East Holland Avenue; Alpine Wine, 116 North Fifth Street, and Alpine Bed and Breakfast at 5:30 p.m. on May 6, both at Alpine Wine; and The Truck at 5:30 p.m. on May 7 at the corner of...

The Boquillas Port of Entry within Big Bend National Park, providing access to the town of Boquillas, Mexico, will change to the summer schedule beginning Sunday, May 1. The port will be open Friday through Monday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Dear Neil: We live on a city street where the lots are 60 feet wide. Our neighbors planted a hedge of bamboo approximately 70 feet long beside our sixfoot wooden fence. That puts the bamboo eight feet from the side wall of our house, and two feet from the heating/cooling units.

Many times, when I prepare a new dish, the ingredients or even the finished product will give me ideas about how I can use the techniques or ingredients in an entirely new dish. Sometimes the dish is something I just concoct out of thin air, and other times I add to a dish already established.

With the addition of nine nurses and clinical team members, Big Bend Regional Medical Center, the Tri-County’s hospital in Alpine, reopened its medical and surgical patient unit. The unit was co-located near emergency services to allow full medical and surgical service staffing coverage.