West Texas towns offer big city sights and historic charm
Alpine and Marfa in West Texas promise rich culture and art. The Chinati Foundation in Marfa offers daily tours and Modernist exhibits once housed in a military base. Alpine features Railroad Blues venues, historic downtown, and the Museum of the Big Bend with local lodging such as the El Paisano Hotel built in 1930.
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West Texas
Alpine
Odessa
Marfa
Chinati Foundation
Museum of
Big Bend
McKittrick Canyon in Guadalupe Mountains NP Texas
Guadalupe Mountains National Park in far West Texas offers day use canyon trails open 8 am to 6 pm MDT through October. San Angelo and nearby sites provide Fort Concho history and lakes. A list of popular Texas attractions follows with contact details and websites for each site.
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Mckittrick Canyon
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
West Texas
Texas
Odessa
Nps.gov
Gumo
McKittrick
Concho River
San Angelo
San Angelo State Park
Visitor’s Bureau
Fortcondo
Fiesta Texas
Houston Space Center
Spacecenter.org
LBJ Presidential Library
Lbjlib
Utexas
Palodurocanyon
Paseo del Rio
Thesanantonioriverwalk
Prude Ranch
Prude-Ranch
San Antonio
New Braunfels
South Padre Island
Schlitterbahn
Sea World of
Texas students show fitness declines through school years
Public school students in Texas show deteriorating fitness from elementary to high school with less than 10 percent passing a fitness test this year. Third grade girls lead at 32 percent fit, while senior girls reach 78 percent healthy fitness zone and 8.5 percent of senior boys. New law requires third grade onward annual fitness assessments and 135 minutes weekly of activity for younger students.
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Texas
Austin
Texas Public School
Jane Nelson
Lewisville
Texas Education Agency
Ruth Marquez Hernandez longtime Monahans resident dies
Ruth Marquez Hernandez of Monahans died at home after a battle with cancer and kidney disease at age 83. She served as a school cafeteria worker in the 1960s and 70s and was active in Catholic and VFW Ladies Auxiliary groups. Services are under Martinez Smith Miller Funeral Chapel with rosary July 2 and Requiem Mass July 3 at St John’s. Interment follows at Monahans Memorial Cemetery. lunch and fellowship to follow.
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Monahans
Ruth Marquez Hernandez
Martinez, Smith and Miller Funeral Chapel
St John’s Catholic Church
Monahans Memorial
Hernandez
Bronte
Texas
Isa
Calistro Marquez
Sophia Sanchez
Vania
The
Sacred Heart
Alter Society
VFW Ladies Auxiliary
Martinez-Smith& Miller
Death notices from Pecos to Odessa and surrounding towns
A long list of obituaries from Pecos, Midland, Marathon, Iraan, Seminole, Stanton, and Odessa. Names include Ray Monk Cameron Sr, Mary Louise Goyne Cope, Francisco Rivera Grano, Susan Boone Kennedy, Edward Mares, Edna Keele Price, Arthur Junior Switzer, Joyce A Masters. Details cover ages, birthplaces, service times, cemeteries, funeral homes, and survivor lists with spouses children and siblings.
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Travel
Western Heritage Museum
Lea County Cowboy Hall of Fame
New Mexico Tourism Department
Newmexico.org
Hobbs
Imperial
Grandfalls
Highway 18
Fort Stockton
Tsha
Utexas.edu
Fort Davis
Sandhills
Monahans Sandhills State Park
the Alamo
Thealamo
Ameriquest Field
Texas.rangers.mile
Tex
Battleship
State
Cabela's
Buda and
Fort Worth
Cabelas.com
Marfatx.com
Alpinetexas.com
Sen
Nelson. Senate
Associated Press
Ruth Marquez
Firestone
Rm Ss Ye
aCe LL Sareke
Affinity Touring
Ray ‘Monk
Anthony Cameron Sr
Pecos
Ray
Monk
Mary Louise Goyne Cope
Midland
el Paso Natural Gas Co
Resthaven Memorial Park
Ellis Funeral Home
Fannin County
Francisco Rivera
Grano
Francisco Rivera Grano
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Miguel Alcuino
Memorial Funeral Home
Dawson
N.M
Ignacia C. Grano
Marathon
Jesus Grano
Nieves Kole~sar
Martha Abrego
Pascuala Villa
Brady
Frances
Susan Boone Kennedy
Iraan
Medical Center Hospital
Restland Cemetery
Mike Wright
Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home
Gary Kennedy
Lauren Kennedy
Alma Boone
Victoria
Shari Henderson
Mineral Wells
Kathy Sims
Edward Mares
Sweetwater
St. James Catholic Church
Hugh Thekkel
Gaines County
Boyer Funeral Home
Elsa
Seminole
Edward Mares Jr
Jose Mares
Ben Mares
Louis Mares
Andrews
Vidal Z. Mares
Janie Saucedo
Marie
Edna Keele Price
Stanton Edna Keele Price
Stanton
Stanton Nursing Home
Baptist Church
David Harp
Evergreen Cemetery
Gilbreath Funeral Home
Erath County
Ben Keele Jr
Donnie Kennedy
Bertie Gates
Corpus Christi
Corilla Trunbow
Rotan
Arthur Junior Switzer
Benna Vida Nursing Home
Frank W. Wilson
Santa Anna Cemetery
Jewel Switzer
Robert Wayne Switzer
Pat Vogt
Edmond Switzer
Alvin
Ray Switzer
Bangs
Otis Switzer
Joyce A. Masters
Monnday
Regency Hospital
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Sally Garcia
NIE
Aoa. Com
Primewell
Tye Bee
Lemans Pathmaker
CFNA
Canar
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