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Sharyland ISD employees will finally receive their long-awaited raises. The board of trustees approved an increase in overall employee compensation at the June meeting after approving the $138 million budget for the 2024-25 school year. Last year, the district only provided one-time $1,500 retention stipends to the employees. Sharyland, like many other districts, was waiting…

For her last major announcement for the school year, La Joya ISD Superintendent Marcey Sorensen officially announced at a board meeting last month the district’s new central office leadership team and the organizational structure it will be operating under. It’s been no secret that Sorensen intended to restructure the district’s leadership; La Joya ISD posted…

When Mission voters approved Proposition K in the May 4 charter election, they voted in favor of adding an internal auditor to the city charter and establishing an audit committee. At the June 24 Mission City Council meeting, the council approved the creation of the audit committee and selected its members. According to the audit…

The La Joya Independent School District Police Department arrested one of the district’s former flower vendors for theft this June over a month and a half after the district began investigating $25,250 unauthorized charges that vendor made on a district credit card. Police arrested Rosa Barrera, the former proprietor of Peñitas’ now defunct Rossy Floreria,…

An Edinburg North High School student representing the Texas 15th Congressional District will see her art displayed at the central rotunda located inside the U.S. Capitol for a second consecutive year. Gabriela Garza, an incoming junior, took the chance to enter a piece done for the San Antonio Livestock Show & Rodeo Western Art Contest…

After weeks of heavy rain, the Rio Grande Valley has its eyes on the Amistad and Falcon reservoirs, eager for water levels to change ongoing drought and lift water restriction efforts for water conservation. Like other cities across four of the five Valley counties, Mission has water preservation methods amid drought contingencies. “We’ve already implemented…

UTRGV graduates benefit from the Archer Fellowship Program at the nation’s capitol Two University of Texas Rio Grande Valley seniors – Matthew Rodríguez from Pharr and Anthony Hernández from Edinburg – spent their final undergraduate semester during 2024 in Washington, D.C., as part of the Archer Fellowship Program, interning for Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, D-Brooklyn, New York. Jeffries has…

Monday, the Hidalgo County Community Service Agency surveyed communities county-wide to identify concerns and refine programs serving low-income households. As the Urban County Block Grant Program nears a new yearly cycle, the county is ready to rebuild a three to five year Consolidated (Con) Plan and Strategy and establish a 2024 Action Plan to better…

Correction: In the Progress Times issue 06/28, we incorrectly reported facts in the Palmview HS conjunto group La Tradicion debuts song produced with Bobby Pulido article. When introducing Javier Loya, his title was incorrectly stated as PVHS Assistant Conjunto Director, not PVHS Conjunto Director. For students participating in the Que Agonia cover: Fernanda Sanchez did vocals…

The Mission CISD Board of Trustees approved a $206.7 million budget for the 2024-25 school year. It’s the first year the district won’t have pandemic recovery funds to supplement the budget. But the finance team has been preparing for months or even years to ensure the students and employees don’t lose any resources when the…