Community

It may be one of the most heartwarming scenes — the sight of the medical staff who nursed babies to health while in a neonatal intensive care unit embracing and being reunited with those children and their families.

The Rio Grande Valley Diabetes Association will hold its monthly free cooking class at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, at the RGVDA office, 3200 N. 23rd St., Suite A, in McAllen.

The Friends of the Wildlife Corridor will host its Rio Reforestation event on Saturday, a community planting day that allows volunteers to plant seedlings, listen to educational information, and interact with conservation partners in the Rio Grande Valley.

SAN BENITO — Family and friends Tuesday remembered Robert Tumberlinson as San Benito High School’s iconic principal “Mr. T” who went on to become a longtime school board member who helped shape the district’s politics.

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley celebrated the 60th anniversary of the UTRGV H-E-B Planetarium with an event on the Edinburg campus to view the annular solar eclipse, which crossed North America for the first time since 2012.

Families gathered around midday Saturday and looked up. Some from outside their homes, others while going about their business and running errands, and then there were those at local events.

EDINBURG — Meredith Gaspar's week didn't start off as planned.

HARLINGEN — There is the laughing and shouting and the exploding of things like audible fireworks, the refreshing celebrations of the innocents in the fall of the year.

Brownsville’s Southmost Public Library Observatory once again has an eye on the cosmos now that the facility’s 14-inch reflector telescope has been re-installed after repairs to the dome, and it’s just in time for the much anticipated “ring of fire” annular solar eclipse midday on Saturday.

The highly anticipated University Drafthouse Beer Fest is back.