Auto theft leads to fatality near Alpine
ALPINE – The theft of a vehicle in Alpine in broad daylight resulted in a fatal wreck east of town Thursday afternoon, according to the Brewster County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office received a report at 12:41pm of a man attempting to steal a Porsche at the Auto Zone on East Holland Ave. After his alleged …
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This week in pictures
¡ask a mexican!
Firearm ownership down Mexico way
By GUSTAVO ARELLANO
Dear Mexican: Like many Americans, I’ve heard about the “Fast and Furious” scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt of supplying guns that ended up in the hands of the drug cartels. Now, if I say any more, I might be talking about …
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steve’s column
Appreciating teachers’ tolerance
By STEVE LANG
“There are three good reasons to be a teacher – June, July and August.” – Unknown
In another setting, fumbling with scissors and flubbing finger painting may have doomed me to eternal life in the first grade.
However, my teacher, Miss Lynne – for whom our elementary school was already named – …
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high desert sketches
Spring comes to the High Chihuahua Desert
By GEORGE A. COVINGTON
During the first week in May we had 2 days with highs of 91. The third day the high was forty with an overnight low of 22. Mother Nature, you murdered the blossoms on our pecan, apple, and peach trees (not to mention kicking the hell …
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the idle american
A champion for children
By Dr. DON NEWBURY
Folks were commonly born into poverty in the 1930s. For some, it was abject–daily bread was never guaranteed, and families were continually on the move in survival mode.
Dr. O. C. (Mike) Taylor, born to migrant farm workers, was subjected to life’s most jagged edges after his birth in 1932. …
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make it fun
I hate windows
By PAM YOUNG
I wonder if there are job openings at Microsoft for geeks to help them really respond to the message I get at least ten times a day using Windows 7? Windows is checking for a solution to the problem. In all the years I’ve been getting that message, no one has …
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the anti-fan
For some athletes’ families, never enough green
By JIM GORDON
M is for the millions that I gave her.
O means that she’s only seeing green.
T is for her taking me to the cleaners.
H is for her heart that’s small and mean.
E is for her eyes with envy shining.
R means rapacious and that she’ll always be.
Put them all …
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rambling boy
Jacksboro blues
By LONN TAYLOR
In the 1950s Texas State Highway 199, which ran 54 miles from Fort Worth to Jacksboro, was the most dangerous road in Texas. Actually, only the first 3 ½ miles of it were dangerous; the rest was reasonably safe. The danger came not from traffic but from the patrons of the 18 …
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correspondence
We would like to express our appreciation for the extraordinary efforts put forth on our community’s behalf by the Presidio City leaders concerned by the devastating changes in USDA import procedures.
Mayor Obed Escontrias, Mayor pro tem Rafael Carrera, and Special Projects Coordinator Carlos Nieto enlisted the assistance of Senator Jose Rodriguez and Representative Poncho Nevarez …
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