Mary Cantrell

MARFA — Marfa schools will continue to operate on the alternative four-day schedule for the upcoming 2024-2025 school year. Trustees voted this week to keep the four-day schedule, which the district adopted this school year, but decided to switch days off to Mondays instead of Fridays.

MARFA — The high school careers of 23 Marfa students came to a close Friday evening as family, friends, teachers and administrators gathered at Martin Field to celebrate Marfa High School's graduating class.

MARFA — The Marfa ISD School Board voted to extend the contract of Interim Superintendent Arturo Alferez for the 2024-2025 school year at a special meeting held Monday.

PRESIDIO AND JEFF DAVIS COUNTIES — A years-long effort by American Electric Power (AEP) to upgrade the 1929-built transmission line running from Marfa to Fort Davis reached a critical next step on May 21 when the company filed its application for the project with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). The project involves replacing existing wooden poles […]

MARFA — The Marfa Chamber of Commerce, a local nonprofit that has been around in some form or fashion since 1912, is under new leadership after a brief period of board restructuring following the November resignation of previous President Abby Boyd. Joe Williams, owner of Big Bend Coffee Roasters, has been reappointed as the chamber’s president, […]

TRI-COUNTY — Fort Davis ISD’s state aid dramatically rose from $70,000 to an estimated $1.5 million this past school year due to an enrollment increase from 170 to 486 students made possible by new partnerships with private, early childhood schools. The partnerships involve the exchange of paperwork, rather than hundreds of students, between the public […]

Marfa City Council members met last week to adopt a revised zoning ordinance and approve a new on-call policy for the city’s EMS personnel.

Marfa City Manager Mandy Roane and Mayor Manny Baeza traveled to the Texas Capitol last week to testify at a Senate Natural Resources and Economic Development Committee hearing in support of expanding cities’ use of hotel occupancy tax (HOT).

TRI-COUNTY — Lowe's Markets, a supermarket chain operating stores in Marfa, Alpine, Fort Davis and Presidio, came under fire recently when several citizens took to local social media pages to express outrage over what they said were repeated instances of overcharging at the stores.

MARFA — Friends of Hunter Gym, a nonprofit organization restoring the 1941-built historic adobe gym on Marfa ISD's campus, is seeking Shorthorn alumni to participate in an oral history project about the building and its past inhabitants.