ATV safety course planned after accidents rise by 183% in RGV
EDINBURG — Oliver Cantu was riding his ATV one day when something happened.
Brownsville ISD considers school consolidation plans
Amid pleas to reconsider, the Brownsville Independent School District presented plans again Monday to merge Morningside and Del Castillo elementary schools in Southmost among three pairs of schools slated for consolidation.
Commentary: It’s election time in Mexico, and much uncertainty looms
I know that many of you have been enjoying spring break, the Easter holiday or March Madness. Others simply are relieved to see that the U.S. government may have averted shutdown.
Another round: Las Ramblas makes James Beard finals two years running
The first time Las Ramblas at Market Square made the James Beard Foundation “Outstanding Bar” finals, it felt like a fluke, admitted co-owner Michael Limas.
Coast Guard seizes 400 pounds of red snapper off of South Padre Island
The Coast Guard last week seized approximately 400 pounds of illegally caught red snapper from four Mexican fishermen.
Letters to the Editor | Week of April 8-13, 2024
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.
Commentary: Changes at Valley post office
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 for McAllen priest deny sexual misconduct allegation
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.
Raucous laughing gulls: Timeless soundtrack for a day at the beach
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.
Artistic journey: Exhibit is visual story of well-known South Texas artist’s evolution
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.