Vol. 93 No. 49
Featured Stories
Montana firm awarded $960 million contract for Presidio County wall construction
County records show company sought permits before contract was awarded On March 5, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded Barnard Construction Company of Bozeman, Montana, a $960,423,540 contract for a “border barrier construction project” that will follow the course of the Rio Grande from the Hudspeth-Jeff Davis County line to the town of Ruidosa…
It’s not over: Walls are still on the map
Big Bend National Park safe for now On March 5, as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was stepping down from her position, the lines on a proposed border wall map mysteriously changed to remove Big Bend National Park from a designation that would make steel walls more likely. The Customs and Border Protection…
Roads discussed and new resolutions adopted during special city council meeting
MARFA — Discussion of road improvement projects made up the bulk of Thursday’s special city council meeting, in which council members also voted to adopt two resolutions –– one regarding broadband internet and the other to allow the Marfa Police Department to accept federal funding to help provide immigration enforcement. In the wake of a…
For one Marfa couple, adventure begins
MARFA – Julian Walstrom was getting married. He dreamed of driving across Mexico and Central America to the cloud forests in Ecuador, where he lived until he was around five. His fiancée and now-wife, Pennie Bumrungsiri, was skeptical. Why stop at Ecuador, she wondered? Why not continue south all the way to Patagonia, on the…
