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Brewster County Judge
Val Beard
P. O. Box 1630
Alpine, TX 79831
432/819-2412
Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson
201 W. Ave
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Alpine, TX 79830
432/837-3488
County Commissioner
Ruben Ortega
P. O. Box 233
Marathon. TX 79842
432-294- J 096
Marathon ISD Superintendent Neal Harrison
N. 5th Street
Marathon. TX 79842
432/386-4431
Terrell County Judge
Santiago Flores
P. O.
Box 4810
432/345-2421
Terrell County Sheriff
Clint McDonald
P. O. Box 320
Sanderson, TX 79848
432/345-2525
Terrell
County ISD Superintendent
Gary Hamilton
P.O. Box 747
Sanderson, TX 79848
432/345-2515
Constellation of the month
SANDERSON – The deadline for a plan to move the old Southern Pacific Railroad Depot here has been extended to Oct. 15.
The Union Pacific,
which survived in the merger with SP, told the community this summer it had until Aug. 15 to present a plan to move the depot off
the railroad property or it would be destroyed.
As early as Monday morning, Aug. 15, we were getting phone calls at the News Leader asking if demolition crews had started work yet.
The deadline of midnight Monday had not even arrived and we have been assured demolition
crews would not start at the stroke of midnight on the deadline date.
REPREIVE – The deadline for a firm plan to move the old Southern Pacific Railroad Depot off site has been extended until Oct. 15.
The old depot has been abandoned and its present owner, the Union Pacific, has threatened to tear it down if a realistic plan to move
it off the site is not in place by the new deadline. This picture was taken in better days in the 1960s.
Football
Begins!
Larrinaga gets awards
MARKET DAYS – Sanderson’s “Nopalito” Market will mark its first anniversary next week. Saturday, Sept. 3, marks one year since the
very successful first market. The market last month drew smaller crowds during some of the hottest days on record. But backers hope
next week will be more like the successful earlier markets.
HARD LANDING – Pilot George Noon of Houston and two passengers escaped injury Monday afternoon when their twin-engine aircraft lost
power on takeoff at Alpine Casparis Airport. Police Sgt. Felipe Fierro said he immediately returned to the airport but landed short,
collapsing the landing gear.
FORT BENNING, GA - Andrew Woosley of Sanderson graduated with honors from Army basic training last week.
After being in Georgia for
11 weeks, Andrew returned home as a private E-2 from Delta company, 2nd battalion, 58th infantry regiment.
The soon-to-be private first class, will go to Virginia next summer to complete his AIT, then back to Fort Benning, where he will attend jump school.
SANDERSON – Julianna Larrinaga of Sanderson has received two more scholarships, the $1,000 Rob McClellan Memorial Scholarship and
the $250 American Legion Auxiliary Scholarship.
Larrinaga, a 2011 graduate of Sanderson High School, will attend Sul Ross State University
in Alpine this fall, majoring in English.
"It is such an honor to have your child receive these scholarships,” her mother Veronica
Luevano said. “We are very grateful."
"I am very grateful to Terrell County and the community for all of their support in getting me prepared for college,” Larrinaga said. “I am also very
“I am also very honored to receive these scholarships."
School budget nears balance
SANDERSON – Terrell County ISD School Board members neared completion of a budget for the new school
year Monday that, although showing a deficit of about $87,000, “as a rule of thumb, it [the deficit] is relatively small,” Business
Manager Blain Chriesman said.
The school and county are both dealing with decreased property values, about half of what they were a few years ago.
SANDERSON – The next “Nopalito” Market Day is scheduled for next week, Saturday, Sept. 3, during Labor Day weekend.
Instead of a three-day
event, plans are for a single day with expansion to more days possible in the future.
To encourage more participation, there will be no fee for vendors to set up during the affair. Donations will be accepted but there will be no mandatory charge.
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State notes bring record
AUSTIN — The state sold $9.8 billion in one-year “Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes” to distributed to public
schools this week at an interest rate of 0.27 percent – the lowest interest rate the state has received on its annual short-term notes.
“Texas had a very successful sale and the demand for these notes shows investors’ high confidence in Texas’ recovering economy and the state’s solid record of conservative fiscal management,” Texas Comptroller Susan Combs said. “Buyers bid about $31 billion – more than three times the amount offered for sale.
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Bring meds to doctor visit
By RACHEL PEARSON
Office of Dr. Adrian Billings
ALPINE – Along with eating right and exercising, seeing a
doctor is one of the most important things we can do for our health.
There are many things that a patient can do to make time
with a doctor more effective.
First – and this one is important – bring your medications.
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Duncan comments draw ire
AUSTIN – Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott has fired off an angry letter to US Education Secretary
Arne Duncan about comments the secretary made after Gov. Rick Perry announced his candidacy for President.
Duncan said in several interviews,
both print and broadcast, that public schools in Texas have “really struggled” under Perry.
“Far too few of their high school graduates
are actually prepared to go on to college,” he said. “I feel very, very badly for the children there.”
THC grants aid
AUSTIN - The Old Fort Days living history program in Fort Stockton and two Odessa museums are three organizations in
the Texas Pecos Trail Region to have been awarded $20,457 in Heritage Tourism Partnership grants by the Texas Historical Commission.
The Texas Pecos Trail Region is a 22-county area in West Texas and one of four heritage regions to receive grant funding this year.
The
Texas Mountain, Plains, and Tropical Trail regions also were recognized.
HIGHLAND VILLAGE – With the Big Bend Balloon Bash in Alpine next week comes word of another balloon with a different message here.
A
hot-air balloon in the guise of Smokey Bear was launched at this community on Lewisville Lake near Denton Sunday, with hundreds of
spectators observing the event at the 24th annual Lions Club Balloon Festival and Fair.
Woosley graduates with honors
SALUTE FOR WOOSLEY - Private E-2 Andrew Woosley graduated from Army basic training at Fort Benning, GA, August 18. He will continue
his training next summer in Virginia and then return to Georgia for jump school.
Julianna Larrinaga
HONORED – The Sanderson Chamber of Commerce honored the Terrell County Volunteer Fire Department as Business of the Month this month.
Accepting the award were Fire Chief Bobby Brotherton, right, and Assistant Chief Richard Montalvo. The department has been very busy
this year, not only with wildland fires in the county, but helping adjoining counties through “mutual aid” agreements.
PLATE VOTE – The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is offering motorist a chance to express their opinions on the design of specialty
license plates. Six designs are presented on the TxDMV website on which motorists can say the like a design or not.
ONLY YOU – Smokey Bear is full of hot air but his message is not. “Only you can prevent forest fires,” he likes to say. A balloon
in the likeness of the iconic wildfire prevention champion was launched last weekend at the Lions Club Balloon Festival and Fair at
Highland Village near Denton.
TO THE END ZONE – Senior Robert Montalvo received the ball and headed for paydirt, followed by four Buena Vista Longhorns in
Friday’s scrimmage here. The Eagle’s season opens at 12:30 p.m. tomorrow in McCamey when they face the Grady Wildcats at the
West Texas Shootout.
Horsing around
SANDERSON – The Terrell County School Board approved the first reading of “Update 90” Monday, one in a litany of items
the “independent” school district has to approve verbatim as dictated by the state.
Among the items was one dealing with “service animals,”
which it described as dogs or “miniature horses” trained to help the disabled perform daily chores.
There was an exception for animals
that were “not housebroken.”
“This is all ‘legal,’ meaning it was approved by the Legislature,” Superintendent Gary Hamilton said.
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