Valley Morning Star

McALLEN — Recently-opened Noodles & Dumplings provides a great flavorful variety of Chinese food, perfect for almost every occasion for newcomers or foodies.

After the pandemic’s outbreak, rising costs led the city’s past administration to place the award-winning program Keep Harlingen Beautiful on hold while shutting down the Harlingen Recycling Center, a key funding source.

Harlingen Medical Center has launched its first graduate medical education program in hopes of bringing more doctors to the Rio Grande Valley.

Cameron County beach access points and Boca Chica Beach have opened following closures due to Tropical Storm Alberto.

Some 21,000 to 23,000 years ago, in what is now called White Sands National Park in New Mexico, a cluster of people, young men and women, perhaps some children, were playing in a shallow water hole. They may or may not have seen, far in the distance, herds of mastodons and wooly mammoths. Judging from the evidence they left in the form of fossilized footprints, this group was neither running away from nor walking purposefully toward something. They were simply milling about, like people do when they are having fun splashing in the water.

MARSHALL — Three Texas State Technical College graduates, Ivy Delong, Amy Gonzales and Jamie Thompson, proved that the path to success can be found even in the hardest of times and now are instructors for the college’s Chemical Dependency Counseling program.

Letters to the editor published in The Monitor, Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald during the week of June 24-29, 2024.

HARLINGEN — International Women in Engineering Day, observed annually on June 23, not only honors the achievements of women in engineering-related fields, but also celebrates the young women who will follow in their footsteps or blaze trails of their own.

Two weeks after establishing perhaps the most restrictive refugee policies in our nation's history, President Joe Biden has about-faced and announced more compassionate, and reasonable policies regarding undocumented immigrants.

As the state doubles down on its plans to award Medicaid and Medicare contracts to a for-profit insurance provider in Texas, so too are legislators and local insurers in their efforts to stymie that progress and advocate for a plan they feel has better served low-income families in the Rio Grande Valley.