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Signing day for Fightin’ Bucks

Alpine Fightin’ Bucks football players Fabian Equihua, Allen Vargas, and Aaron Lara signed letters of intent to play football for the Sul Ross State University Lobos on Feb. 5 at the high school library.
Signing day for Fightin’ Bucks

Apple graft gone bad

Dear Neil: This is a three-year-old dwarf apple tree. As you can see in the photo, all of the growth is on one side of the graft line. The opposite side has no bark. Do I have to leave the tree staked? My concern is that I’ll come out some morning, and find the tree broken off.
Apple graft gone bad

LOOKING BACK

February 3, 1971 Astronaut Alan Shepard, center, who hopes to walk on the moon tomorrow, was greeted by a large number of Big Bend residents when he and others in the space program arrived at the Presidio County Airport on April 1, 1964.
LOOKING BACK

It’s Girl Scout cookie season

The Girl Scout Cookie Program has long taught girls how to run a business via cookie booths, door-to-door, and the Digital Cookie platform online. When the pandemic hit in the middle of the 2020 season, girls were faced with the same challenges as other small businesses.
Alpine High School ninth grader Hannah Vidal pauses for a photo as she sells Girl Scout cookies outside Porter’s on Fifth Street in Alpine on Feb. 7. Proceeds from the sale will go to Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest, and, in turn, to various troops. Avalanche photo by Roxanne Hill
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