VMHS student saves mother’s life with Heimlich maneuver
Alex De Leon didn’t know that when he chose to take a CPR training class and learn the Heimlich Maneuver he would be putting those skills to use on someone so close to him like his mother. It was a regular Sunday morning for the De Leon family except their son Alex wasn’t supposed…
Read MorePatriots win ugly, clinch share of district title
It was a closer game than many expected but the Veterans Memorial Patriots held on to defeat the Valley View Tigers Friday evening by a score of 21-14. While Patriots’ head coach David Gilpin will take the win, he readily acknowledged the fact that it was not pretty. “I told the kids just before…
Read MoreFormer Agua SUD employees received nearly a half-million in severance pay
A slew of documents released last week revealed that two former employees with the Agua Special Utility District received nearly half a million dollars in severance pay following their termination from the utility district. Oscar “Coach” Salinas and Armin Garza, who currently serve as trustees in the La Joya school board, served as employees…
Read MoreSix Big 7 teams vying for the playoffs
It’s Week 11 of Valley high school football and with six of the Mission, Sharyland and La Joya school districts’ seven teams, otherwise known as the Big 7, still in playoff contention, there is a lot riding on the outcomes of this week’s games. And with two of these six teams vying for a district…
Read MoreMCISD’s Super López bids farewell; Trustees name interim replacement
When the Mission Consolidated Independent School Board of Trustees holds its next set of committee meetings Dec. 6 it won’t be their popular school’s superintendent, Ricardo López, officiating. On Wednesday night during their regular monthly meeting the board voted to make the district’s assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, Criselda “Cris” Valdez, interim superintendent. …
Read MoreMission’s Robert Fisher to receive Legion of Honor medal tomorrow
When he’s hanging out with fellow veterans Robert Fisher often wears a brown leather vintage World War II pilot’s flight jacket. Nearly filling up the back of the jacket are 35 white skulls representing each of the bombing missions he flew over Europe during the height of the second world war. Written across the…
Read MoreNovember 10, 2017 – City of Alton Legal Notice
Beverage Permit, Mixed Beverage Late Hours Permit by the City of Mission doing business as the Mission Event Center, to be located at 200 N. Shary Rd., Mission, Hidalgo County, Texas. Martin Garza, City Manager, Mario Flores, Golf Course Director, and John Gonzales, Club House Manager. on this the 24th day of October, 2017. Salvador…
Read MoreNovember 10, 2017 – City of Alton – ORDINANCE 2017-17-1024
ORDINANCE 2017-17-1024CITY OF ALTON AN ORDINANCE ABANDONING A ROADWAY, UTILITY AND DRAINAGE EASEMENT THE SUBJECT TRACT OF LAND BEING THE 1.3 ACRES EAST OF A 3.506-ACRE (DEED: 3.502- ACRE) TRACT OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, OUT OF A CERTAIN 15.28 ACRE TRACT BEING THE NORTH 8.58 ACRES OF LOT 39-1, AND THE SOUTH 6.70 ACRES…
Read MoreNovember 10, 2017 – City of Mission Planning Department
The Mission City Council will hold a Regular Meeting on November 27, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. at the City Hall Council Chambers, 1201 East 8th Street, Mission, Texas in order to consider the following: Rezoning: Lot 1, Yessica Pedraza Subdivision, from (C-1) Office Building to (C-3) General Business Discussion and Action Amending Various Portions of…
Read MoreOBIT – W/PIC – James Timmons
ROANOKE – James Andrew Timmons, 94, passed away Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, at his son’s home in Roanoke. Mr. Timmons was born on Feb. 6, 1923, in Chicago Ill. He was a resident of Hacienda Village in Mission for the past 15 years. He was a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving…
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