Posts Tagged Tom Haines
Four more days until a Marfalafel
February 25th, 2011
But who’s counting?
Well when it comes to the return to business for Food Shark, the truck by the tracks that serves up desert-inspired delights, it seems many a Marfa mouth is watering.
Take, for example, the Facebook post of Tim Johnson, over at Marfa Book Co. Today, the end of the third full week …
Audio Slideshow: Shafter waits
February 12th, 2011
A ceremonial blast this week will kick off a new life for the Shafter mine seven decades after it closed. Listen and look at Shafter on the brink of change in the slideshow above. Rosa Muñoz, 78, a lifelong Shafter resident, opens by talking about her childhood memories of a booming Shafter. Sandy McVey, project …
Los Hombres de Acerero
February 6th, 2011
There may be a northern feel to tomorrow’s Super Bowl, with the Pittsburgh Steelers facing the Green Bay Packers in a Dallas that is only beginning to thaw from a week’s winter beating.
But that’s not to say the big game hasn’t also stirred passions along the border.
Check out this tale of some dedicated …
This land is his land
January 31st, 2011
A recent story in the New York Times reported that media mogul John C. Malone is expected soon to pass media mogul Ted Turner as the owner of the most private land in the United States. A pending deal for a million acres of timberland in Maine will put Malone at …
Hospital district OKs $300k payment, backs Marfa Meds
January 27th, 2011
By TOM HAINES
MARFA – In a quick and relatively quiet board meeting last week, the Big Bend Regional Hospital District formalized a one-time $300,000 payment to the area’s only hospital.
The board had voted 4-1 at its previous meeting to make the payment to make up for a smaller-than-expected contribution to the hospital through the so-called …
Ranchers challenge Air Force plans for bomber routes
January 27th, 2011
By TOM HAINES
MARATHON – Rick Tate had just finished shipping steers with his brother and three ranch hands Monday afternoon when he glanced into the wide West Texas sky.
“Speaking of B-52s,” he said, “look at that.”
Sure enough, as if on cue, one of the long-winged, multi-engined bombers swept just about overhead, an incongruous display of …
A fantasma group comes to Marfa
January 27th, 2011
Rosario Halpern, here at Bigbendnow.com, just played Calor, a hot track from Grupo Fantasma, on her weekly Spanish-language radio show on Marfa Public Radio.
The 11-piece band – a Latin funk orchestra out of Austin, TX (thanks, Wikipedia) – comes to Marfa to play Padre’s on Feb. 8.
Get a taste …
Sold! Once
January 21st, 2011
There was much fanfare on the streets of Dallas last year, when Neiman Marcus announced it had included a dream trip to little ol’ Marfa in the 2010 version of The Christmas Book. Price: $9,500 and up.
Well it’s a few weeks into the new year, and it turns out that one shopper decided …
Shafter silver mine plans digging deeper
January 21st, 2011
By TOM HAINES
SHAFTER – With plans for a re-opening of the Shafter mine appearing to be farther along than at any time in the last 40 years, the City of Presidio last week took a precautionary step.
At Thursday’s City Council meeting, Cary Skelton, director of the Presidio Emergency Service District, suggested passing an ordinance that …
Play ball!?
January 21st, 2011
Nothing like professional baseball on a summer evening at Kokernot Field in Alpine.
This past summer, the latest incarnation of the Big Bend Cowboys and their league ran out of steam.
Now local baseball fans are trying to come together to keep the game alive.
Mike Perry, over at the Alpine Daily Planet, has a …
