Area News

The Cotulla Woman’s Club served as host on Thursday, September 7, at the monthly ‘Coffee With the Chamber’ organized by the Cotulla – La Salle County Chamber of Commerce and held this time in the fellowship hall of the First Church of Cotulla. The event was themed in purple and teal, representative of the month’s…

COUNTY ARREST Fifty-five individuals were arrested in La Salle County over the past month on a range of felony and misdemeanor charges and on warrants issued locally and in other jurisdictions. Arrests were made by deputies of the La Salle County Sheriff’s Office, troopers of the Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol, and officers…

Railroad traffic on the Union Pacific line between San Antonio and Laredo was halted Friday afternoon, September 8, after a maintenance crane on a road-railer truck caught fire just north of Dilley. According to a report filed at the Frio County Sheriff’s Office, the machine caught fire after coming into contact with a power line.…

Uvalde’s Joe Foley has been named the new Medina Electric Coop Voting District 2 representative following a round of interviews by a selection committee. Former director Jim Gates resigned from Medina EC’s board of directors at the February board meeting, opening a seat to represent Voting District 2. Voting District 2 represents seven of Medina…

Cotulla native Karina Sauceda began serving La Salle County on September 1 as the new extension agent for agriculture and natural resources, headquartered at the AgriLife Extension Service office on Front Street. Sauceda is a Cotulla High School graduate and earned her bachelor of science degree in agriculture, communication and journalism at Texas A&M University…

Student members of the Pearsall High School Mighty Maverick Criminal Justice Explorers took part in a memorial stair climb at Mack Laxson Field on Monday morning, September 11, to commemorate the selfless service of emergency responders, including firefighters, medics and police, who climbed into the towers of the World Trade Center within minutes of terrorist…

Two Houston teens were cuffed in La Salle County last week after leading Encinal police and other agencies on a high-speed pursuit in a stolen car carrying undocumented immigrants. Identified as Alex Sandoval and Arthur Lara, ages 17 and 18, the suspects were subject to a routine traffic stop in Encinal on Thursday, September 7,…

A traffic stop in Encinal on Friday, September 8, resulted in the second capture of a smuggler in as many weeks by local police. Dennis Lee Rodriguez, 37, of Taft, Texas, was jailed in La Salle County on felony human smuggling charges after officers intercepted his Ford F-250 pickup truck and found three Mexican nationals…

READY TO SERVE – LOVE’S in Cotulla held its grand opening ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, August 24. Present for the event were City Administrator David Wright, La Salle County Judge Leodoro Martinez III and other city and county officials, Cotulla Chamber employees and board members, as well as Love’s District Manager Cruz Garza, Manager Guadalupe…

The Pearsall Nursing & Rehabilitation Center hosted an Open House on Thursday, August 31, welcoming the public to view some of the updated facilities and fixtures in the center, to introduce administrators and staff, and to outline some of its new policies and procedures aimed at making the care center more welcoming and accessible. (CURRENT…