Alpine News

The Advanced Academic Department sponsored the Ector County Independent School District G/T Junior High students and teachers to participate in the annual Creative Problem-Solving Conference organized by Sul Ross State University and Region 18 Education Service Center, Oct.

ALPINE The Rio Grande Research Center at the School of Arts & Sciences at Sul Ross State University has been awarded $1.434 million by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund biophysical research in the Rio Grande Basin.

Sul Ross State University News Release October 27, 2009 Alpine, Texas - Dr. Joel E. Vela, Vice President of Sul Ross State University©Rio Grande College, has announced his resignation, effective Dec.

Sul Ross State University News Release October 27, 2009 Alpine, Texas - Brothers Kern and Hobson Wildenthal, whose impressive higher education careers began in Alpine, will receive Distinguished Alumni Awards during Sul Ross State University's Homecoming Nov.

A kidnapping victim is found in Hobbs, New Mexico, and her alleged kidnapper is in the hospital after apparently shooting himself.

Gift to the Museum of the Big Bend Honors Betty Byerley 10/27/09 Sul Ross State University News Release October 27, 2009 Alpine, Texas - The Museum of the Big Bend at Sul Ross State University recently received The Betty Byerley Retablo Collection given by Leon Geddis Byerley of Midland, in memory of his wife.

CBP News Release October 26, 2009 Alpine, Texas - Agents of the Alpine Border Patrol Station seized over 1,700 pounds of marijuana in two separate seizures late last week.

Darla Henry, Millsap High School principal, has been selected to represent the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals as a Region XI Outstanding Principal of the year.

ALPINE The Center for Big Bend Studies at Sul Ross State University hosted "An Afternoon of Archaeology" at the MacGuire Ranch Sept.

During July 27 through 31, my friend and fellow writer, Gerald Warfield, attended the 2009 Summer Writing Retreat in Alpine, Texas.

If only all of Troy McKinney's cases were so easy to solve. The special ranger headed out to Farmersville to investigate the reported theft of two calves, the latest in a growing caseload of agricultural crimes in Texas and Oklahoma.

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On September 15, the City of Alpine, Texas, approved a proclamation that designated October as a oeDark Sky Month.a This announcement came as citizens worked towards having Alpine recognized by the International Dark-Sky Association under its Dark Sky Community designation.a a Gil Bartee, vice president of development for Sierra la Rana , a ...

After creating the first Knight Rider TV series, Glen Larson took the same formula and substituted a futuristic semi truck for a Pontiac Firebird.

Farmers, ranchers and government officials from the region and other parts of the state gathered at Texas Landowners Councila TMs first West Texas Land & Water Conference this summer at Sul Ross State University in Alpine.

A group of people in Marfa put together the town's first jazz festival last weekend, and I'd had plans to go all summer.

Elias Hernandez CBS 7 News September 6, 2009 Alpine, Texas - Colorful hot air balloons filled up the sky for the annual big bend balloon bash.

Update : I attended the town hall meeting. I saw Tom Michael of KRTS there, and Mike and Cindy Perry of the Alpine Avalanche and Jack McNamara of the Nimby News. Click for video.

Ciro Rodriguez hosts a town hall meeting in Alpine, Texas

ALPINE Ricardo Maestas, vice president for Student and University Relations and Dean of Students at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, was named the lone finalist for the presidency of Sul Ross State University.