The Brownsville Herald

Brownsville native, Chicago transplant, actress, writer and producer Ilse Zacharias was earning rave reviews from Windy City theater critics for her stage performances in works such as “The Madres,” “The Abuelas” and “Anna Karenina” a few years ago.

Graduation season is upon us. It’s one of the first major rites of passage in the lives of most people, a time to celebrate the achievement of finally completing the dozen years of formal education; for most students these days the time has been even longer when we factor in kindergarten, preschool and Head Start programs.

All three Rio Grande Valley representatives in the House of Representatives voted for the debt ceiling bill, but statements issued following the vote mostly fell along party lines.

HARLINGEN — Shuffling in shackles, 28 men and women climbed stairs to board a Boeing 737, taking a deportation flight to their home country of Colombia.

HARLINGEN — Shuffling in shackles, 28 men and women climbed stairs to board a Boeing 737, taking a deportation flight to their home country of Colombia.

BROWNSVILLE — A restoration project at the Old City Cemetery is moving forward, thanks to a grant from the South Texas Center for Historical & Genealogical Research.

The political tumult within the La Joya school board, sadly, is not unusual in the Rio Grande Valley. As board members spend their time grandstanding and bickering with each other, they seem to ignore the very reason they were elected in the first place — the educational welfare of the districts’ students.

Of the 89 residents of Cameron and Hidalgo counties at high risk of having fungal meningitis, only nine have been admitted to the hospital to be tested for the potentially deadly disease.

BROWNSVILLE — A pirate with a wooden leg greets me the moment I walk into Captain Bob’s Seafood Restaurant.

Graduation season will get underway at 7:30 p.m. Thursday when the 430 members of Lopez Early College High School’s 2023 graduating class gather at Sams Memorial Stadium for the first of seven BISD ceremonies celebrating this year’s graduates.