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Head of Hidalgo County Health & Human Services announces retirement
EDINBURG – Eduardo “Eddie” Olivarez, the Chief Administrative Officer for Hidalgo County Health & Human Services, announced on Wednesday his intention to retire after nearly four decades in the healthcare arena. “My wife and I have decided that it’s time to enter a new chapter in our lives,” Olivarez said in announcing his retirement…
Read MorePrecinct 3, Hidalgo County respond to layoffs with Resource and Employment Fair
Precinct 3 and the Hidalgo County Community Service Agency partnered Tuesday to tackle unemployment in western Hidalgo County via a Resource and Employment Fair. Over 42 organizations offered job opportunities and community aid inside the Alton Parks & Recreation Gym, with job and community aid specialists taking the time to speak with western Hidalgo County…
Read MoreMission Regional Medical Center celebrates 70th anniversary
Seventy years is considered a lifetime — and with that amount of time, the Mission Regional Medical Center continues to dedicate healthcare to patients. Last Thursday, inside the Mission Event Center lobby, healthcare professionals, stakeholders, and guests celebrated seven decades of community-centered medical service. “It’s the 70th anniversary of Mission Regional Hospital. What an accomplishment,”…
Read MoreRodgers retires from Mission school board
Mission Consolidated Independent School District Trustee Minnie Rodgers resigned from the school board Wednesday, but unlike most politicians, she didn’t end her career with her mind on politics. In contrast to many school board trustees in the Rio Grande Valley who’ve retired on good terms after a long tenure, Rodgers wasn’t in the mood to…
Read MoreMendoza reinstated as Mission school board after quiet resignation
Ta-da: Mission has the same school board trustee it had yesterday. That is the sum of Trustee Veronica “Betty” Mendoza’s trick, which she apparently embarked on as a failed effort to keep her job at La Joya ISD. The Mission school board unanimously Wednesday reinstated Mendoza to her seat on the board that she’d resigned…
Read MoreHigh school marching season on the horizon
At the edge of summer, lively drum beats and trumpet blares ring out from campus football fields and parking lots accompanied by the faint sound of a metronome — sounds marking the start of marching band season. The Mission Consolidated School District, Sharyland Independent School District, and La Joya Independent School District welcomed their marching…
Read MoreCantu Elementary ranked No. 1 in MCISD
Out of Mission CISD’s 14 elementary schools, U.S. News & World Report ranked Cantu Elementary as the No. 1 elementary in the district for 2024. U.S. News is a digital media company that also uses data to compile lists ranking everything from real estate to education to healthcare. Since 1983, U.S. News has published rankings…
Read MoreMission continues to raise employee pay
While other school districts in Texas have struggled to provide yearly pay raises to its teachers and staff, Mission CISD continues to increase compensation at all levels. Mission CISD’s compensation plan for the 2024-25 school year includes a $1,550 increase for all teachers, a starting salary of $58,250 for teachers with zero years of experience…
Read MoreMission CISD says it won’t actually remove 676 challenged books
The Mission Consolidated Independent School District says it won’t actually be removing or reviewing 676 books the school system’s former superintendent committed to purging earlier this summer. In May Mission CISD, like other Rio Grande Valley districts, received an email from local representatives of a conservative advocacy group. The letter urged the district to ban…
Read MoreCourt ordered to vacate disqualification of attorney representing Treviño in Hidalgo County JP election contest
The 13th Court of Appeals issued an order Wednesday directing a judge to vacate his decision disqualifying attorney Rick Salinas from representing Hidalgo County Justice of the Peace Sonia Treviño in her election contest against Ramon Segovia. State District Judge Jose Manuel Bañales disqualified Salinas, Treviño’s lead attorney, from representing her after he said in…
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