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2023 Graduation Slideshow: Thank you for your submissions and Best of Luck to All Area Graduates!
DISTRICT 29-4A TRACK & FIELD Sprint relay team shatters school mark, Mavs win third straight district championship. Pearsall ran one of its best races of the year and finished second in the mile relay, the final event of the evening, to pull away from Pleasanton and secure a third straight District 29-4A championship in action…
Eclipse party offers students opportunity to view rare celestial event In celebration of Monday’s total solar eclipse, Pearsall ISD hosted a Solar Eclipse Day event at its campuses and high school football field in an effort to allow students and staff the opportunity to immerse themselves in the celestial event. The solar eclipse of April…
US Border Patrol agents arrested a Laredo man last week after a traffic stop revealed he was transporting ten undocumented immigrants. Encinal police say they were patrolling the interstate Thursday, April 4, when they spotted a GMC pickup truck traveling above the posted speed limit. When the officer approached the vehicle, he noticed several individuals…
A man believed responsible for abandoning the wreckage of his trailer in Moore last week has been remanded into custody on felony charges. Four undocumented immigrants were seriously injured in the one-vehicle accident when they were thrown from the trailer on Wednesday, April 3. Frio County sheriff’s deputies say they were dispatched to the IH-35…
Driver was pinned in wreckage, investigators say A two-vehicle crash involving an SUV and a tractor-trailer rig near Derby has left one man dead, according to Frio County sheriff’s deputies. The report from the sheriff’s office indicates a 2014 Ford Expedition collided with the back of a commercial freight truck near Milemarker 91 shortly after…
CLYDE LITTLEFIELD TEXAS RELAYS Aranda medals in 100m dash, Saenz, PHS sprint relay finish 11th, 13th at Austin. Dorian Aranda was third overall in the 100m dash and seventh in the triple jump in action at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin over the weekend. The four-day event annually draws elite high school athletes…
Immigrants flung from car in rollover A Del Rio man was hospitalized and remanded into custody in La Salle County last week after being held responsible for the deaths of two undocumented immigrants in a crash on IH-35. Emergency responders were alerted shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, that the driver of a Ford…
Interim supt. has 24 years’ experience in education The Dilley ISD Board of Trustees announced last week that the interim superintendent is the lone finalist for the position that was vacated last year when Supt. Emilio Castro resigned. Longtime teacher and administrator Kelli Smith DuBose has served as superintendent since last August and, after applying…
Dilley Volunteer Fire Department Chief AJ Gonzales and members of his crew, and La Salle County Fire Rescue Chief Daniel Mendez and Assistant Chief Gilbert Martinez and members of the county firefighting brigade met with representatives of the Plains All American pipeline company Tuesday afternoon, March 26, to receive donations of firefighting trucks, emergency response…
A domestic dispute call led Pearsall Police to arrest two men on felony narcotics charges Thursday, March 28. According to emergency dispatch logs, a call regarding a domestic dispute at a residence on Ash Street was received around 5 a.m. Responding officers arrived at the home on the southeast side of town to discover 60-year-old…
2023 Graduation Slideshow: Thank you for your submissions and Best of Luck to All Area Graduates!