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Dear Neil: We’ve had this fig in our family for many years. This past winter was hard on it, but it’s coming back, and it’s bearing fruit. Should we cut the dead limbs off now or wait until the winter dormant season?

What if this life does not change? This question lingered in the back of my mind recently as I drove around my hometown, noticing how many old familiar places had been torn down or replaced with something new and strange to me. Maybe you can relate.

Tyler Straub from Detwiler/Road Runner Ranch won top hand at last weekend’s Big Bend Ranch Rodeo. Courtesy photo.

In recent weeks, suspects have used firearms to shoot at several U.S. Border Patrol agents in Texas and California.

The Circle M8/Barnes Cattle team finished second overall at last weekend’s Big Bend Ranch Rodeo at the SALE arena in Alpine. Courtesy photo.

The proposed tax rate and employee pay raises generated much debate at the Brewster County Commissioners Court regular meeting on Aug. 11.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Aug. 12 at Sul Ross State University in Alpine for the future expansion of the Emmett and Miriam McCoy Building at Museum of the Big Bend. Present at the ceremony and holding the traditional groundbreaking shovels were TSUS Student Regent Camile Settegast, Dean of Educational and Cultural Resources April Aultman Becker, TSUS Regents Alan Tinsley, Regent Don Flores, and Nicki Harle, TSUS Second Vice Chairman Garry Crain, TSUS Chancellor Brian McCall, TSUS Chairman Charlie Amato, TSUS First Vice Chairman Duke Austin, Brian McCoy, Brenda McCoy Remme, Reid McCoy, and Sul Ross President Pete Gallego. Avalanche photo by Roxanne Hill

As a research engineer at McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, John Kuehne specializes in bringing automation to the movement of the telescopes. He is likely to be found rewriting automation software he previously created into the more “robust programming language” called Ada.

Alpine ISD Superintendent Becky McCutchen on Aug. 9 announced that Lee Sanchez resigned from his position as high school principal on Aug. 6. Verl O’Bryant has assumed the role of high school interim principal, and will serve in this capacity until a full time replacement can be named.