Area News

ON THE AIRWAVES The La Salle County Sheriff’s Office has announced that Cotulla native Stephen Alvarado has been promoted to the position of emergency dispatch supervisor, following the retirement in October of Sandi Ibarra, who spent a 25-year career in service to the county. Alvarado was chosen last month out of a field of candidates…

COUNTY ARRESTS  Thirty-two individuals were arrested in Frio County between Monday, October 24, and Sunday, November 20, on a range of felony and misdemeanor charges. Arrests were made by deputies of the Frio County Sheriff’s Office, troopers of the Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol, and officers of the Pearsall Police Department. In addition to…

A recurring problem of Cotulla residents flushing non-solubles down their toilets has prompted the city council to consider renewing a public service announcement and a video made last year by local high school students. “Don’t flush wipes” was the message put out by the students in a short film that contained slogans to bring across…

Retired US Border Patrol Agent Richard Maldonado was sworn into office as the new member in Place 7 on the Cotulla ISD Board of Trustees in a brief ceremony Friday, November 18, to take the seat recently vacated by Jamie Whitwell, who had earlier submitted her resignation to the board president. Whitwell had been elected…

COUNTY ARRESTS  Thirty-nine individuals were arrested in La Salle County over the past two weeks on a range of felony and misdemeanor charges as well as on warrants issued locally and in other jurisdictions. Arrests were made by deputies of the La Salle County Sheriff’s Office, troopers of the Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol,…

Seguin natives Zeke Campos on accordion and father Art on guitar were among the four-piece Conjunto Cats on the performance line-up at the first Cotulla FFA Booster Club Thanksgiving holiday weekend scholarship fundraiser held Friday evening, November 25, in the La Salle County Fairgrounds Pavilion, where crowds braved rain and cold to dance to a…

LAW ENFORCEMENT NEWS The Frio County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that its deputies have increased their patrols on outlying farm-to-market roads in a heightened effort to intercept smugglers’ criminal attempts at transporting undocumented immigrants through the region. The report was highlighted over the weekend by a case in which deputies positioned near the intersection of…

LAW ENFORCEMENT NEWS A Houston-area man who suffered critical injuries after he was struck by a train in Pearsall on Sunday, November 20, is expected to survive the accident. Frio County sheriff’s deputies say the man identified as 31-year-old Ricardo Cuevas was walking south along the train tracks between the Trinity and Arnold streets crossing…

By Marc Robertson A scant quorum of Cotulla city councilors agreed Thursday evening, November 10, to allow a business owner to move game parlor machines from one location to another in the wake of a recent burglary. Councilors debated the measure at length and were made aware that changing the city’s established ordinance may set…

Through multiple donations from members of the community, the Virginia Thompson Pearsall Education Foundation has raised $60,000 to create the Uvalde CISD Education Foundation to provide scholarships for all students who graduate from Uvalde CISD and were fourth graders at Robb Elementary during the 2021-2022 school year. The scholarships will be available for any student…