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Tomorrow (TUESDAY), the city of Alpine will hold their next regular city council meeting.
According to the agenda for the meeting, city council members are set to grant funding opportunities using the city’s hotel occupancy tax fund. The city will also discuss the QUOTE “development of a strategic water infrastructure plan” and consider evaluating the city’s existing wells and determining what needs repairing or replacing.
The city will also talk about the agreement with Alpine ISD over the use and repair of Manuel Payne Field.
The council meets Tuesday, June 16 at 5:30 p.m. at the city council chambers.
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On Tuesday, Brewster county officials will hold a hearing on whether to move forward with an election to create an emergency services district.
The move comes after several months of work from city and county officials to figure out how to provide emergency services in the northern half of Brewster County since the contract with the current EMS provider isn’t being renewed.
If approved, the district would collect taxes to fund those emergency services.
The hearing is set for Tuesday morning at 9:30 at the Brewster County Courthouse.
It’s open to the public and anyone who attends can weigh in on whether they believe the emergency services district should be created.
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The local nonprofit Alpine Community Projects is looking to raise money for new furniture at the municipal pool.
The organization says the city needs 16 chairs, five tables and an umbrella stand for one of the lifeguards. And the money raised by the community will be matched by the Permian Basin Area Foundation.
To donate, head to alpinecommunityprojects.org.
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On Thursday, Front Street Books will host an audiobook meetup.
All you need to do is bring your headphones and your preferred device. Just find a cozy spot in the store’s reading room and listen to an audiobook. And if you have crafting projects, feel free to bring them so long as they’re relatively quiet.
The bookstore will provide coloring pages and pencils for anyone needing something to work on while listening to their audiobook. The first 10 attendees will receive a free audiobook credit for the app Libro.fm.
The audiobook meetup happens Thursday, June 18 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
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This weekend, on Saturday, June 20, the City of Alpine celebrates the second annual Make Music Day, a celebration inviting everyone to make, share, and enjoy music together.
The day starts at the Alpine Visitor Center, where there will be a free harmonica workshop for beginners at 9:00 a.m. Then later in the day, the fun moves to Cow Dog, where there will be a percussion playtime. Throughout the rest of the day, there will be music at three different venues: At 5:00 p.m. at Alcove Social there will be a music circle, at Skelton’s Runway, Mariachi Santa Cruz performs at 3:00 p.m. and Wayne R. West closes out the night beginning at 8:00 p.m. Then at the Ritchey, Adam Bork and Peter Clementi take the stage at 7:00 p.m.
In a press release announcing the music celebration, Chris Ruggia, Alpine’s director of tourism, said the event is QUOTE “more about participation than performance” and that everyone’s invited to have fun and make music regardless of experience.
For a schedule and list of events, head to visitalpinetx.com/event/make-music-day.
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Later this month (JUNE), Texas Parks and Wildlife will host a presentation on living with black bears at the Jeff Davis County library.
The talk will go over the bear’s natural history, their behavior and activity in the Davis Mountains as well as how you identify and secure things near your home that might attract bears.
The presentation is free and open to the public. It will be held Saturday, June 27 at 3:00 p.m. at the Jeff Davis County Library.
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Later this summer, the Borderlands Research Institute at Sul Ross will host a three-day conference about tackling issues, strengthening partnerships and sustaining lands to support wildlife across Texas.
BRI, along with the Texas Wildlife Association and Texas Parks and Wildlife, will bring together landowners, industry experts, and like-minded conservationists to cover emerging issues in the Trans-Pecos, big game and non-game research and management, applied management, and land stewardship.
The Trans-Pecos Wildlife Conference takes place August 5 through 7 at the Morgan Center at Sul Ross.
For more information and to get your tickets, visit bri.sulross.edu.
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