The Hidalgo school board voted 4-3 Monday to accept a resignation letter submitted by Interim Superintendent Fernando Castillo that night after just four months on the job.     Castillo’s resignation will become effective on April 4.   The board named Castillo interim superintendent in late October after former Superintendent Xavier Salinas retired from education.…

Attorneys representing the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley asked a judge last month to dismiss a lawsuit filed by three former employees of the institution’s School of Social Work who allege they were discriminated against by the university and its employees prior to their terminations.     In a lawsuit filed in October, the…

Criminals targeted portions of the city of Mission’s network in a security breach last week that brought parts of the city’s systems offline.   Some of those systems remained offline this week, the city announced in a release Tuesday, in order “to preserve their security and integrity.”   The incident, which happened last Friday, left…

The McAllen City Commission voted Monday to name a new 20-acre park on the northside of town Camp McAllen, which a survey found was the third-most popular name with residents.     Formerly known as the Kappler Property, the undeveloped land the park will be built on is located at 8701 N. 23rd Street.  …

Sullivan City Council voted Monday to postpone potential censures for Mayor Alma Salinas and Councilman Ruben Villalon until the city can sit down for mediation over a lawsuit filed by a Salinas-helmed slate of candidates.   Council was supposed to meet earlier this month to discuss censuring Salinas and Villalon, however no councilmembers showed up…

In September of 2021, Mission CISD announced with some fanfare the opening of seven new food trucks that would feed children at various schools through the district in what its leadership described as an innovation that was already attracting enquiries from admiring neighboring school systems.     That food truck fleet would not remain the…

La Joya Mayor Isidro Casanova saw a grievance requesting he be reinstated to his old job at La Joya ISD be shot down by the district’s board last month.     Casanova served as an armed attendance truancy supervisor with the school district for about 20 years.   Last April, however, La Joya ISD’s new…

Police arrested an 18-year-old Weslaco man last week who allegedly threatened to “shoot up” Triumph Public High School in McAllen because he was upset over an altercation his girlfriend, a student at the school, had been involved in.     McAllen police arrested Jacob Lee Vela last Wednesday and charged him with terroristic threat, a…

The Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Tuesday passed a resolution opposing legislative efforts to eliminate countywide polling and make other changes to how Texans vote that County Judge Richard F. Cortez repeatedly called “insanity.”   At least four bills filed in the current Texas legislative session relate to those topics, seeking to eliminate countywide polling, electronic…