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Presidio gives rocketry team a hero’s welcome
February 16th, 2012
By DIANA AGUIRRE AREMENDÁRIZ
Students Ana Karen Nieto and Gwynelle R. Condino, along with teacher Shella R. Condino, were warmly received on Wednesday, February 8th, by the people of Presidio after visiting the current president of the United States, Barack Obama, in Washington D.C. Janet Nieto, Ana Karen´s sister, is a student at Texas Tech University …
U.S. issues travel warning to 14 Mexican states
February 16th, 2012
MEXICO CITY – The U.S. State Department is recommending that Americans avoid travel to all or parts of 14 of 31 Mexican states in the widest travel advisory issued since Mexico stepped up its drug war in 2006.
The department advises against any nonessential travel in all of Chihuahua, Coahuila and Tamaulipas, which border the U.S, …
Family searching for three men missing in Ojinaga
February 16th, 2012
By the ODESSA AMERICAN
(used with permission)
ODESSA, OJINAGA – An Odessa woman was in Ojinaga, Mexico this week with other family members attempting to locate her brother, husband and father, who traveled Friday to the border city to visit relatives.
Oyuqui Gabaldon-Garcia says her brother, Barnaby Gabaldon, 22, of Odessa was kidnapped. Barnaby, a Permian High School …
Interim principal begins work at Marfa ISD
February 16th, 2012
By ALBERTO TOMAS HALPERN
MARFA – In the wake of losing Marfa Jr./Sr. High School principal Graydon Hicks two weeks ago, the school district has hired an interim principal.
Ken Jernigan, who prior to working in Marfa taught and coached in Shamrock, Texas, a Panhandle town similar in population to Marfa, began work as the interim principal …
County chooses same consulting firm
February 16th, 2012
By ALBERTO TOMAS HALPERN
PRESIDIO COUNTY – County commissioners have selected S&B Infrastructure of McAllen, again, to be their construction and consulting firm for the international bridge expansion project between Presidio and Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico.
In late November, commissioners scored three firms, S&B Infrastructure, Structural Engineering Associates, and Raba-Kistner. In that meeting, after some confusion over the …
Ojinaga helps drought victims of La Sierra
February 16th, 2012
By DIANA AGUIRRE ARMENDÁRIZ
OJINAGA, Chih., Mex. – The city government here and the Integrated Family Development (DIF) of Ojinaga conducted a 15-day effort to raise food supplies to help those affected by the drought in the Sierra Tarahumara.
The food drive concluded February 5th at the city square, which was attended by several musical groups that …
Family Crisis Center is grant recipient
February 16th, 2012
FAR WEST TEXAS – The Family Crisis Center of the Big Bend Inc. has received a $7,500 grant from the Trull Foundation to supplement its shelter program.
The grant will help provide for shelter client needs, including new clothing when needed, prescription refills, first-month rent deposit, utility deposits, rent and utility assistance, bus tickets and/or gasoline …
Gallego calls STOCK Act a step forward
February 16th, 2012
Texas State Representative and Congressional candidate Pete Gallego today praised efforts to ban members of Congress from making financial transactions based on inside information, calling it a “real step forward”.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the STOCK Act, which bans members of the House of Representatives and Senate from making financial transactions …
Voters, not council, to fill vacant Alpine post
February 16th, 2012
By MARK GLOVER
ALPINE – Representation of the people in Alpine’s Ward 3 remains vacant as the city council voted unanimously to take “no action” on an interim appointment and allow the seat to be filled by the winner in May’s special election.
“I’m reluctant to appoint somebody who might have an unfair advantage as an incumbent …
City prepares to offer natural gas to residents
February 16th, 2012
By ALBERTO TOMAS HALPERN
MARFA – Mayor Dan Dunlap this week reported to city council members about updates to the impending Southwest Texas Municipal Gas Company (SWTMG) dissolution. The cities of Marfa and Alpine, which co-owned the gas company have decided to part ways after years of partnership and offer the natural gas utility to residents …
