Life

HARLINGEN — Stacks of canned corn and tomato sauce stand in one corner.

Laura Valadez saw a growing need in her community for home health care, particularly among Baby Boomers. It inspired the registered nurse to open SYNERGY HomeCare, the nation's fastest-growing in-home care franchise.

HARLINGEN — San Martin screeched as he stretched his festive wings into the air.

HARLINGEN — It started as a small wooden church with services in English and German.

HARLINGEN — St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at 602 Morgan Blvd. is celebrating its centennial anniversary in a fine brick structure and an ongoing construction project.

Anyone aspiring to a career in the arts and entertainment industry can get the inside scoop from industry veterans during the inaugural Mitte in Motion: A Dynamic Arts Festival to be held April 29 in Brownsville.

Attention pop culture fans.

EDINBURG — Children from the local Hidalgo County Head Start program fidgeted with anticipation Wednesday morning as they sized up the new and improved Milo Ponce Park in Edinburg.

For all those looking for a fun way to welcome the spring season, there will be cause to celebrate on Thursday.

SAN BENITO — Freddy Fender Lane filled with song Saturday as a crowd seated in folding chairs or standing, with some swaying to the beat of music, joined Margarita Huerta Fender and her brother Isidro Huerta as they sang “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” famously recorded by their uncle Baldemar Garza Huerta, the singer better known as Freddy Fender.