Area News

On Tuesday evening, the Mission Event Center gleamed in purple for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The city of Mission and the Hidalgo County District Attorney’s Office discussed the continuous fight against domestic violence and abuse in the Rio Grande Valley community. The event began with flashes of red and blue from law enforcement patrol cars…

McAllen Independent School District trustees interviewed four candidates for superintendent Tuesday as part of its exceptionally speedy superintendent search that Board President Debbie Crane Aliseda says has attracted quality applicants. Trustees interviewed candidates behind closed doors in executive session for over eight hours Tuesday, but did not name a lone finalist. Crane Aliseda said after…

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Art & Design is spotlighting the work of MCISD students with the agriculture-based FARMER Program. Until October 15, community members can visit the Charles and Dorothy Clark Gallery in Edinburg to view personal stories from Mission and Veterans Memorial High School students. Student-produced photographs adorn the…

The Edinburg Consolidated Independent School Board held an insurance committee meeting Tuesday to discuss pharmacy claims and collaboration between the district and Driscoll Children’s Hospital. Prime Therapeutics Account Executive Lashay Cooper reviewed the district’s pharmacy performance, starting with data from 2019. “This is when you all made changes to your benefits and you moved from…

La Joya ISD trustees are considering allowing Region One Education Service Center to operate four elementary schools through a partnership aimed at improving academics. According to a board agenda packet, the schools being considered are Rosendo Benavides, Leo J. Leo, Corina Pena, and Juan Seguin elementaries. Region One is the southernmost branch of a state-wide…

McAllen ISD’s board of trustees approved Monday a human resources department review that’s at least in part a response to a scandal in the district’s communications department that became public earlier this year. The $25,000 Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) review will examine eleven areas in the district’s human resources department, ranging from its…

The Texas Judicial Commission on Mental Health (TJMH) hosted a Juvenile SIM (Sequential Intercept Model). Wednesday, mental health leaders, educators, members of the judicial system, and community stakeholders filled a ballroom at the Mission Event Center to discuss solutions for juvenile justice. “That’s what our purpose is: that we dive into this workshop and we…not…

Palmview residents will vote this November for the first time on whether to amend its charter in a four-proposition election that could dissolve a city council seat. The city describes those possible amendments as housekeeping and efficiency measures. The most impactful of the proposed amendments, Proposition A, would eliminate a council member seat and give…

La Joya ISD started off the school year with enrollment down by about two and a half percent from last year, a gap that widened by a tad over the first few weeks of school despite efforts to close it. In August, the district reported an enrollment of 23,713, down 621 students from the same…