The Brownsville Herald

The Coast Guard last week seized approximately 400 pounds of illegally caught red snapper from four Mexican fishermen.

This week, letters and commentary included a discussion regarding planned changes regarding postal services in the Rio Grande Valley, uncertainty surrounding Mexico’s upcoming elections, President Biden’s halt to development of liquefied natural gas facilities and the upcoming global conference on a proposed plastics use treaty.

To save the Postal Service, or not save it. That’s the crisis — and the question — the Postal Service faced that led to the creation of its 10-year Delivering for America plan in March of 2021. In the three years since, our organization has been working to recover from operational and financial catastrophe.

Attorneys representing the McAllen priest who was recently removed from the Catholic Diocese of Brownsville has responded and denied the allegations in a statement on Saturday. 

A rapid series of loud ha-ha-ha-haah-haah commands attention on the beach. It’s not rowdy beachgoers enjoying a fun story, it’s the clatter of the laughing gull, so tagged because its noisy vocalization sounds like human laughter. A happy bird? Perhaps. Certainly, a gregarious one.

With “Mi Vida Loco,” Mark Clark takes us on a brief autobiographical tour from his first artistic inspirations to the present. Stepping into the artist’s creative pathway we see his family and friends serving as early inspirations, and life in the Valley combining a passion for social depictions of US-Mexico relations and a rejection of the European art style. His art finally plays with time, moving historical subject matter out of the past and into the present.

Get those glasses ready.

BROWNSVILLE — With just 30 seconds remaining in regulation, the Brownsville Lopez Lobos seemed to have their tickets to the Region IV-5A final. Then a...