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La Salle County officials are scratching their heads this week over what may have caused a power line pole on North Baylor Street to snap, bringing down electric lines near the Super 8 and La Quinta hotels on Sunday evening, April 30. The sheriff’s office has indicated that deputies dispatched to the scene shortly after…

Texas added 58,200 positions in February 2023, leading the nation in jobs added over the month. The data was published in April by the Texas Workforce Commission. In February, the state reached 13,831,900 total nonfarm jobs, marking two full years of uninterrupted monthly job growth in Texas, the commission reported. Since February 2022, 611,400 jobs…

INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDS AVAILABLE IF CIT RESIDENTS’ INCOME ARE LOWER THAN US CENSUS REPORTED With offices in New Braunfels as well as Carlsbad, California, the Seagull PME company will be contracted by the city of Cotulla to examine whether the 2020 US Census gave an accurate portrayal of the community’s average household incomes. Seagull was the…

“I AM THE BLACK SHEEP” Frio County commissioners dueled last week over an ongoing light project on the north side of Pearsall. Commissioners had voted in late March to install five new street lights along Vaughn Road after learning of repeated reports regarding undocumented immigrants traveling along the poorly lit thoroughfare. The illumination of Vaughn…

NO ACTION ON REPLACING MEMBER WHO SERVED SINCE 2016 Pearsall ISD Board Member Tommy Navarro resigned his seat last week, citing personal matters as the reason for his departure. Records filed at the Frio County Jail show Navarro turned himself in to authorities following a Class A misdemeanor charge for theft of property in November…

The Cotulla High School and Frank Newman Middle School mariachi bands have earned additional trophies for their performances at contests across South Texas in April. Attending the Texas Association of Mariachi Educators State Invitational in Bryan on Friday, April 14, the Mariachi Cotuleño came home with a first-place trophy signifying another state mariachi title for…

As law enforcement officials across South Texas continue to combat crime that includes high-speed pursuits from human smuggling attempts, a Frio County deputy made an arrest following a pair of dangerous incidents last week. Frio County Lieutenant Joshua Longoria says that while on routine patrol on Tuesday, April 18, he attempted to effect a traffic…

    Emergency responders cut the driver of a U-Haul truck out of his cab after a crash on an overpass in the northbound lanes of IH-35 at Dilley on Monday afternoon, April 24, while a medical evacuation helicopter was en route to transport him to a San Antonio hospital. According to early reports on…

  A sudden heavy rain downpour causing adverse driving conditions may have been partly to blame for the crash of an 18-wheel freighter down a highway embankment in Cotulla on Sunday morning, April 23. Emergency responders were dispatched to the scene at the IH-35 overpass at FM 468 shortly after 9:45 a.m. to find that…

Pearsall city councilors and municipal staff joined Mayor Ben Briscoe and representatives of the Belong Agency and the Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of South Texas recently in witnessing the signing of proclamations dedicating April as both Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The nationwide pledges for the public awareness drives include encouragement…