Vol. 94 No. 14
Featured Stories
Print paper goes on hiatus
Dear Readers, We have decided to take a hiatus from printing the paper edition of Big Bend Sentinel this summer, while we figure out how to adapt to the evolving landscape of community journalism and the increasing costs of printing a physical copy. Thus, your mailbox will have no print edition this week, but your…
Presidio development group files suit to block border wall
The latest effort to thwart border wall construction in the Big Bend through the legal system was launched on Wednesday afternoon by the Presidio Municipal Development District (PMDD) and advocacy group Democracy Forward, who are suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in D.C. federal court and asking that a judge halt construction of the…
AEP turns to county in search for substation site
Presidio County Presidio County officials are weighing whether county-owned land could be made available for a new AEP Texas substation, as the utility continues searching for a roughly four-acre site to increase the infrastructure needed to increase its peak capacity for the Marfa area. Both county and AEP representatives described the conversations as preliminary. County…
‘We already lost it once’: Eminent domain returns to the Big Bend
When Everett Ewing Townsend, a 23-year-old customs inspector stationed on the border in the Big Bend, saw the South Rim of the Chisos Mountains for the first time, he knew his life was about to change. The vista — a hundred-mile panorama of lush green piñon forests giving way to forbidding desert and finally to…
