May 18 (Monday) 5 pm
Red Patillo Community Center
Rare Element Partners Meeting with Danielle Gallo
Danielle Gallo who works for Rare Element Partners, a company that mines for rare earth minerals, will be here to talk to us about what they do and answer questions we have about mining near Terlingua. Please come! Please share!
Time: May 18, 2026 05:00 PM Central
Zoom Meeting ID: 788 3553 6592
Zoom Passcode: 773182
Zoom Invite Link:
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7883
Terlingua Moon Vol. 37 No. 19
May 12 2026
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We are what you share.
In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.
The sun shines not on us but in us.~ John Muir
Paisano Post from Terlingua School
Tuesday: PreK and K are going on a Field Trip to the Dinosaur Exhibit in the National Park
Wednesday: Mr. Anthenat's students in Introduction to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle class will take their FAA Drone test. Go Paisanos! Ms. Pena is taking the Sophomores to the Career Fair held at Sul Ross.
Thursday: Student Council candidates will give speeches before the Election of Officers for next school year
Friday: Fiesta Day starting at 9am and continuing until noon.
Students of the Week: Elem: Arleht Huerta Mena, Middle: Ben Cox, High: Ivanna Ochoa
Big Bend Episcopal Mission Services & Otra Vez Thrift Store
Saturdays Holy Eucharist Services w/ Father Mike Wallens at the Sts. Mary & Josephs' Chapel in Lajitas 5pm. All are welcome.
Otra Vez Thrift Store Hours: Wednesdays: 5:30pm-6:30pm and Saturday 9-12pm. The month of May will bring back the $1 bag sales. Thank you for your support. The Thrift Shop will be closed all of June, July, and August.
NOW HIRING The Terlingua Trading Company is looking for a part time cashier, stop by the store in the Terlingua Ghost Town for details!
TERLINGUA TRADING COMPANY Now interviewing for the position of Inventory Manager. Stop by the the store in the Terlingua Ghost Town for details.
Brewster County Regular Commissioners Court Meeting Agenda - May 12, 2026
9:30 AM Brewster County Courthouse
Note Agenda item 9: new library facility in Study Butte
https://brewstercotx.portal.civicclerk.com/event/87/files/agenda/1225
Terlingua Crisis Center of the Big Bend Hello Terlingua, Just got off of the phone with the West Texas Food Bank. Our food truck will be getting here on Thursday May 14th around 11:30. Shout out to our lovely volunteers. Distribution will be on Friday May 15th, 10 am till 3:30 pm. Please bring your cards.
Come on out to the 1st Annual Longhorn Roundup at the Longhorn Ranch Motel in Terlingua this Saturday May 16th. Turn in for chili is 1:00pm. We are always in need of more cooks and judges.
Espresso ... y poco mas Open seven days a week for home cooked breakfasts, lunches and the best coffee in the area. Located in the Ghost Town, great seating with fantastic views, strong wifi, and newspapers. 432 371 3044 for to go orders. Open at 7:30 a.m.
Taqueria El Milagro Authentic Mexican food and more in the Ghost Town. Serving Mexican recipes from street tacos to steaks and huge side dishes. Great food, great setting. BYOB. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 3 pm until 9 pm. 432 371-2060 for take out via our drive through window.
MILKY WAY TREATS ice cream trailer will be open this weekend, Saturday through Monday, 4–9 p.m! We’ll have our creamy dreamy, vanilla, and chocolate soft serve. Check out our pints of homemade ice cream, and fun sundaes! Our ‘3 Years Here - Terlingua Ice Cream Social, is coming up, yall! It’ll be Monday, June 1, 7-9pm. More details to come! Gracias, Terlingua!
The BBHS Theater Club is hosting a play at Cinnabar Theater in Terlingua, TX, on May 16th, at 7 p.m. Our play is "Will You Be My Nemesis?" Come to our play and see our heroes and villains battle to find the right nemesis. Our actors are Anthony Pattillo, Tony Picaso, Joselyn Sartin, Tatum Obregon, and Luna Illona Aguilar. There will be an entrance fee of $10. We are sponsored by Go Big Bend, Last Minute Low Productions, Stage Partners, Shot Time Liquor, and Dbs Rustic Iron BBQ, which is providing drinks for concessions. You are also free to bring your own drinks. Please come and see our play at Cinnabar Theater.
Come see us at the Saturday Community Market, open from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Located at the Community Garden in the Ghost Town, we're here every Saturday with happy vendors offering an array of locally produced goods and other items. You'll also be able to enjoy our fabulous local mobile library and portable free ‘porch’, even consult with Dr. Gigabyte if you have a computer problem.
Local art, handcrafted textile goods, fresh eggs, sour dough bread, all natural lip balms and skin care products, all natural essential oil fragrances, beard oil and massage oils, handcrafted, creative jewelry, resin creations, block printed textiles and vintage goods, both curated and upcycled, practical and artistic items made of reclaimed steel and more -- you never know just what or who you'll find here.
Flea market items are also welcome. After all, reusing and up-cycling already existing items is smart and green. We ask a $10 donation to the Community Garden to set up, helping us to continue to improve this space and experience for all of us.
We welcome new vendors. To make it easy for new vendors to try our market and to show our appreciation to our regular vendors, we waive set-up fees on the first Saturday of the month, offering free set-up on that day.
For more information, text or call 432.213.1863 or pop in at the market for a chat. Prepared food vendors must display current food handling licence. (A quick, easy and affordable online course can provide that).
Please help keep our market space safe and comfortable for all, two-legged and four, by keeping all dogs leashed and under control. We look forward to seeing you there.
"Terlingua Trash Pickup - weekly trash pickup for residential and business.
64 gallon can - $49.99 per month.
96 gallon can - $59.99 per month.
We do Junk Removal and clean outs too!
WEEKLY DUMPSTERS COMING SOON - 4 cubic yard size. Get on wait-list now. Businesses only at this time due to limited quantity.
All the details and pricing on the website: www.terlinguatrash.com.
Have a great day! -Jimmy (432) 201 -5638."
TONIGHT, Monday May 11 at 6 pm Join us at the Red Patillo Community Center for No Wall No Wire updates and volunteer opportunities.Despite recent headlines, our fight to defend Big Bend and the Rio Grande is not over.
Despite recent headlines, our fight to defend Big Bend and the Rio Grande is not over.
US Customs and Border Patrol have extended its public comment period on the proposed Big Bend border wall to May 22.
Include: Big Bend Border Barrier System in your comments.
Email: bigbendcomments@cbp.dhs.gov
Call: (833) 412-2056
Mail:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Program Management Office Directorate
1300 Pennsylvania Ave.
6.5E Mail Stop 1039
Washington, DC 20229-1100
ATTN: Michelle Barnes
CBP states "helpful comments are fact based, include links to data or research, and provide specific information concerning potential impacts on biological, cultural, and natural resources."
No Wall. No Wire. No Way.
Join our weekly family friendly Saturday protest at FM 170 and Hwy 118 8:00am-10:00am or so.
Every Saturday in May!
Upcoming Events
Thursday, May 14 2:00pm
Culberson County Groundwater Conservation District
1300W. Broadway Street, Van Horn 79855
Re: Water Use related to the construction of a border wall.
Follow us on Facebook at No Wall 79852 for current updates. Things are changing quickly.
Locals Affected by The Border Will the Border wall harm your lifestyle or finances?Politicians ignore protests against the border wall, but if everyday people take a simple online class to act as their own lawyers for free and file hundreds of individual lawsuits and injunctions from home, the massive legal pressure could grind the project to a halt. If interest exist we can do a group viewings weekly.. Let's Move the Needle. JOIN US IN THE BUNKHOUSE MAY 12 th from 3-5P.M. Below the Bad Rabbit Cafe .Come Learn How to take Your Power Back!!! See you there!!
KEEP BIG BEND WILD!
CBP still has not restored the map on their Smart Wall website, further demonstrating that transparency is not their goal. That said, CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott was reported to have told the Washington Examiner last week that “CBP will not build a border wall inside Big Bend National Park on the U.S.-Mexico border following blowback from local residents.” We are being heard – maybe.
But Scott also reportedly told the paper that “[I]n Big Bend National Park, CBP will pave roads along the border, as well as use more technology, such as drones, radars, cameras, and fiber-optic cables to monitor the area.”
The last version of the map they will no longer let us see shows a new road from Santa Elena Canyon to Rio Grande Village, between the existing River Road that BP agents regularly patrol, and the river. Will this now be paved?? How many desert washes will need bridges or hardened crossings, at what impact and what cost? And, of course, they also propose 17 miles of new vehicle barriers – and roads - in places where there is no threat of vehicles crossing the Rio. And while many of us are fine with additional technology, provided it is no more intrusive than what’s already there, why does DHS need to connect everything with old-technology cables? WHAT IS THE PROBLEM THEY ARE TRYING TO SOLVE, aside from feeling like they have to do SOMETHING?
While DHS has waived the 28 environmental, cultural resource, and public involvement laws upriver of Colorado Canyon in the state park, they have not yet done so downstream of that in our region. In any communications anyone has with elected officials, we need to stress the need to keep that from happening! DHS and its contractors cannot build any infrastructure in Big Bend National Park unless they either comply with those laws – which seems highly unlikely – or waive them.
Want to proudly show that you want to Keep Big Bend Wild? We now have caps, t-shirts, and stickers available. Shop at https://www.hubnotic.com/collections/keep-big-bend-wild. This is the only authorized Keep Big Bend Wild merchandise, and fully half the cost you pay is returned directly to Keep Big Bend Wild to support our efforts to protect this area from the wall and for the long term.
Please learn more at keepbigbendwild.org, and consider supporting Keep Big Bend Wild. There's no more important time. Donations are welcome (we're financially sponsored by the El Paso Community Foundation, a 501c3), but we need you to allow us to list you as a supporter even more. Local business supporters are especially appreciated.
Bob Krumenaker Chair, Keep Big Bend Wild
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TERLINGUA TRADING COMPANY
Now interviewing for the position of Inventory Manager. Stop by the store in the
Terlingua Ghost Town for details
Paisano Post from Terlingua School
Thank you Mr. Rodriguez, volunteer teachers, student coaches and referees,
sponsoring businesses, and community supporters who made the 2nd Annual Little
Dribblers season a success.
Students of the Week: Elementary: Naila Huerta, Middle School: Isabel Nunez,
and High School: Michelle Orozco
The community is invited to our school's Spring Fiesta on May 15th. More details
TBA.
Big Bend Episcopal Mission Services Otra Vez Thrift Store
Saturdays Holy Eucharist Services w/ Father Mike Wallens at the St. Mary
Josephs Chapel in Lajitas 5pm. All are welcome.
Otra Vez Thrift Store Hours: Wednesdays: 5:30pm-6:30pm and Saturday 9-
12pm. The month of May will bring back the $1 bag sales. Thank you for your support.
The Thrift Shop will be closed all of June, July, and August.
Taqueria El Milagro
Best Mexican food and more in the Ghost Town. Serving authentic Mexican recipes
from street tacos to steaks and huge side dishes. Great food, great setting.
BYOB. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 3 pm until 9 pm. 432 371-2060 for take
out via our drive through window.
Voices Pre-party at The Boathouse
Friday May 8 with a hosted open mic and live music by Caleb Wilborn, Voices t-
shirts will be for sale. Come get pumped up to share some love with our neighbors
VOICES - Saturday May 9
11AM - Welcome with Collie Ryan on Texas Stage and Eucharist in the middle
of the Río
12-1PM -Abel Aguilar y su imperio norteña
1-2 PM - Pinche Gringos
2-3PM - Abel Aguilar
3PM - Hands Across the Río
3:15 -4 PM - Peso Bunch w/Doug Moreland
4-5 PM - Abel Aguilar
5-6 PM - Lucky Bunch
6PM - Voices Post-Party DB's annual Customer Appreciation Party at DB's
Rustic Iron BBQ with complimentary libations and food buffet (while it lasts) and a
hosted open mic and live music from Nani & Friends.
Re: Voices From Both Sides/Voces De Ambos Lados
I'd like to take a moment and provide some clarification in the hope of helping
everyone who plans to attend understand why we (the VFBS board) posted what we did
the other day. Almost everyone in our beloved community is engaged in this border
wall/barrier discussion and/or the fight against it, it's important to remember that while
the future of Voices would no doubt be forever altered or even possibly ended by the
building of a wall, it hasn't yet and we hope to see this reunion of families and friends
continue for as long as it can. There are many things at stake, and on the peripheral
many more watchful eyes than ever before. In spite of all of it, we're all doing everything
we can to work together with all parties involved to pull it off, and with a few
concessions, whether we or any of you totally agree with them or not, we WILL be able
to gather at the Rio as we've done so many times now.
Keep in mind that the location itself - Paso Lajitas - is as important to Voices as
almost any other factor, and because it's private property Voices has been allowed to
happen each year by permission from the landowner. Love them or not, they have
always, so far, granted permission. Should they ever change their mind, it would
jeopardize the future of this beautiful celebration. And this celebration is bigger than any
of us, important to all of us. More important to the abuelos who have the opportunity to
walk across the Río once a year to hug their nietos, for the families separated by the
imaginary line. The music, the food and fun, the t-shirts, they're all a great part, but as
the people on the Texas side, the most important thing we can provide is our peaceful
presence so that this reunion can be possible. This is an opportunity for celebration of
the life along the frontera that we love rather than an opportunity for demonstration of
the things we know that threaten it. For one day, we ask each and every one of you to
consider all that is at stake, and for one day - a beautiful moment in time - step aside
from anger we're understandably feeling, and come together at the Rio with love in our
hearts and together make a light that shines so bright it speaks for itself.
We have not made rules nor do we have the authority to tell anyone what not to
do. However, there will be people there that have and do, and should you decide that it's
more important for you to protest in that way than it is to celebrate the love of our
collective community, the blame might possibly fall squarely on you, Voices as we
know it could cease to exist. I don't think a single one of us on either side want to see
that come to pass.
If you are still concerned or have questions, please send me a direct message
and let's have a quick chat on the phone. I'd be happy to speak to you.
No Wall. No Wire. No Way.
Join our weekly family friendly Saturday protest at FM 170 and Hwy 118
8:00 am-10:00 am or so.
Every Saturday in May!
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, May 6, 6pm. Van Horn Community Meeting, Van Horn Convention
Center.
Follow us on Facebook at No Wall 79852 for current updates. Things are
changing quickly.
No Wall 79852 Updates
US Customs and Border Patrol have extended its public comment period on
the proposed Big Bend border wall to May 22.
Include: Big Bend Border Barrier System in your comments.
Email: bigbendcomments@cbp.dhs.gov
Call: (833) 412-2056
Mail:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Program Management Office Directorate
1300 Pennsylvania Ave.
6.5E Mail Stop 1039
Washington, DC 20229-1100
ATTN: Michelle Barnes
CBP comments are fact based, include links to data or research,
and provide specific information concerning potential impacts on biological, cultural, and
natural resources.
Chili Cookoff at the Longhorn Ranch Motel on May 16:
This is a CASI sanctioned event. The entry fee is $25.00. This is a chili grind cookoff.
The charity is the Family Crisis Center of Big Bend. Turn is 3:00. Amy Davidson at
432-371-2541 is the contact for the cookoff.
ALL YOU NEED TO ATTEND AN AA MEETING IS A DESIRE TO QUIT. If you have,
or think you might have, a drinking problem, we meet at 6:30 pm on Thursday at the
Big Bend Church, just north of the post office.
MILKY WAY TREATS ice cream trailer will be open this weekend, Sat thru Mon, 4-9pm.
We’ll have our creamy vanilla and lactose-free lemon soft serve. Check out our pints of
homemade ice cream and treat yourself! Gracias, Terlingua!
Terlingua Trash Pickup - weekly trash pickup for residential and business.
64 gallon can - $49.99 per month.
96 gallon can - $59.99 per month.
All the details and pricing on the website: www.terlinguatrash.com.
Have a great day! -Jimmy (432) 201 -5638
PROPERTY OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION OF TERLINGUA RANCH:
Please join your friends and neighbors at the next monthly property owners’
potluck on Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:00 pm, at the Bunkhouse on the ranch. The ranch
will provide plates, cutler, water, and iced tea. Please bring a dish to share. For more
information, please call Marilynn at 512.484.1409.
Saturday Community Market
open from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Located at the Community Garden in the Ghost
Town, we're here every Saturday with happy vendors offering an array of locally
produced goods and other items. You'll also be able to enjoy our fabulous local mobile
library and portable free ‘porch’, even consult with Dr. Gigabyte if you have a computer
problem.
Local art, handcrafted textile goods, fresh eggs, sour dough bread, all natural lip
balms and skin care products, all natural essential oil fragrances, beard oil and
massage oils, handcrafted, creative jewelry, resin creations, block printed textiles and
vintage goods, both curated and upcycled, practical and artistic items made of
reclaimed steel and more -- you never know just what or who you'll find here.
Flea market items are also welcome. After all, reusing and up-cycling already
existing items is smart and green. We ask a $10 donation to the Community Garden to
set up, helping us to continue to improve this space and experience for all of us.
We welcome new vendors. To make it easy for new vendors to try our market
and to show our appreciation to our regular vendors, we waive set-up fees on the first
Saturday of the month, offering free set-up on that day.
For more information, text or call 432.213.1863 or pop in at the market for a chat.
Prepared food vendors must display current food handling license. (A quick, easy and
affordable online course can provide that). Please help keep our market space safe
and comfortable for all, two-legged and four, by keeping all dogs leashed and under
control. We look forward to seeing you there.
TANKS A LOT TERLINGUA
Water Catchment Tanks, Pumps, Filters and Installation
ALSO NOW AVAILABLE:
Food Grade 275 gallon totes - $275/each
Food Grade 55 gallon barrels with removable lids & ports - $85/each
Steel 55 gallon drums with no lids - $50/each
Shop Local! Located near the Terlingua Ranch Lodge.
Call Mark or Michelle: 432-371-3096 (home/office) or 806-781-7814 (cell)
Espresso ... y poco mas
Open seven days a week for home cooked breakfasts, lunches and the best
coffee in the area. Located in the Ghost Town, great seating with fantastic views, strong
wifi, and newspapers. 432 371 3044 for to go order
