Brewster County Commissioners Court will meet Monday, November 3 at 9 am to consider postponing the December 6 special election to consider a tax rollback to January 13, 2015. From the Monday agenda: 1. Consider and act upon amendment / clarification of existing joint election agreements with Marathon […]

The Annual DIA DE LOS MUERTOS (Day of the Dead) celebration will be held in the Terlingua Cemetery on Sunday evening, November 2. Everyone is invited to attend and participate in the lighting of candles on all of the graves in the historic cemetery. Candles will be provided, but please […]

Pet blessing and All Souls celebration mark All Saints weekend at St. James Alpine   St. James Episcopal Church, Alpine will celebrate the creation in its many forms for the Feast of All Saints with a pet blessing at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 1. All are welcome to bring […]

This morning Brewster County Commissioners Court accepted 931 verified registered voter signatures to a petition to set a tax rollback election. The court set the special election for December 6. The rollback effort, spearheaded by south Brewster County resident Julianne Braun, is a grassroots effort to reject the 22% increase […]

Brewster County Commissioners Court will consider an agenda item to accept almost 1,000 petition signatures from county residents to rollback county tax revenue increases by a special election. The county had proposed an increase of over 22% in tax revenues that was met with a broad based rejection from residents […]