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1 day ago | 
bigbendsentinel.com | Sam Karas
MARFA — At Wednesday morning’s meeting, the Presidio County Commissioners Court discussed how best to express support for local farmers and ranchers during the ongoing drought. A trend of dry conditions has persisted for five years, earning a classification of “exceptional” — the most dire category — from the United States Drought Monitor. The commissioners heard a presentation from Esteban Mesa of the Presidio County Farm Agency.
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1 day ago | 
bigbendsentinel.com | Sam Karas
MARFA — History was made in Presidio County on Monday after visiting Judge Eduardo Gamboa of El Paso approved delayed death certificates for 14 men who were murdered in a small border village over a hundred years ago. The judge’s decision came after years-long efforts by the descendants of the Porvenir Massacre to obtain official death certificates for their relatives, in hopes of bringing some closure to a particularly dark chapter of state history.
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2 weeks ago | 
bigbendsentinel.com | Sam Karas
PRESIDIO — At last Thursday’s meeting, the Big Bend Regional Hospital District (BBRHD) toasted a successful first two weeks of Bravo Health Terlingua, the region’s new “microclinic.” Billed as an innovative project to transform rural healthcare, the small building — staffed in-person by local nurse Ashley Grover — blends a traditional office visit with cutting-edge telemedicine.
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2 weeks ago | 
bigbendsentinel.com | Sam Karas
PRESIDIO — Last Wednesday, around 30 Presidio ISD parents and staff members gathered to discuss a $9.9 million bond for district improvements that will appear on the ballot this Saturday. School board members Perla Natividad, Jaime Sanchez and Brenda Witty moderated the discussion, fielding questions about school finance and the potential projects that could be funded with the bond. Superintendent Carmen Rubner was also a part of the presentation.
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3 weeks ago | 
bigbendsentinel.com | Sam Karas
PORTLAND, Ore. — Last Thursday, Sul Ross graduate Aaron Ortega-Gonzalez filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after his student visa to attend Oregon State University was abruptly pulled on April 4 “without any notice or meaningful explanation,” per his complaint.
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3 weeks ago | 
bigbendsentinel.com | Sam Karas
NEW ORLEANS — Next Wednesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in the case of James Larremore, an Alpine man who was arrested for smuggling three undocumented people in a horse trailer for pay in July 2023. He was later convicted on one count of transporting migrants, but his legal counsel insists that this was the result of an unlawful seizure by a Brewster County Sheriff’s Office deputy.
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4 weeks ago | 
bigbendsentinel.com | Sam Karas
PRESIDIO — At Tuesday night’s meeting, the Presidio City Council celebrated another round of positive audit results. State law requires local governments to hire independent auditors, whose reports act like a credit score — without good audits, they can get turned down for grants and other opportunities. Certified Public Accountant Preston Singleton of Singleton and Clark gave a brief presentation on his findings, which did not include any major red flags.
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4 weeks ago | 
bigbendsentinel.com | Sam Karas
PRESIDIO — This upcoming Wednesday, April 23, Presidio ISD will host a Q&A session about the $9.9 million school bond that will appear on the May 3 ballot. The bond would translate to about 18 cents per $100 of property value for property owners within the district and would go to address an array of improvements across the three campuses.
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4 weeks ago | 
bigbendsentinel.com | Sam Karas
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, the Trump administration released a memo regarding the “Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border,” which included the transfer of a narrow federally-owned strip of land along the border from Las Cruces to San Diego from the Department of the Interior into the hands of the Department of Defense (DOD). “Our southern border is under attack from a variety of threats,” the president’s memo reads.
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1 month ago | 
bigbendsentinel.com | Sam Karas
PRESIDIO COUNTY — At Wednesday morning’s Commissioners Court meeting, Presidio County officials continued to debate the prospect of partially funding a second assistant for the 394th District Court. Commissioners David Beebe, Deirdre Hisler and Franky Ortiz voted down the roughly $10,000 annual commitment last week, but District Judge Monty Kimball and Court Coordinator Lori Holguin came to the meeting in person to ask them to reconsider.
