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COUNTY ARRESTS Sixty-six individuals were arrested in Frio County between Monday, January 8, and Wednesday, January 31, 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…

Residential and commercial property owners subject to annexation in 2018 will soon see the infrastructure they had been promised, according to Pearsall City Hall. The four-phrase project is slated to begin in the spring and will provide water and wastewater services to the annexed land. “We anticipate the water happening fairly quickly,” Pearsall City Manager…

The Dilley Police Department is nearly fully staffed for the first time in years, according to Chief Steven Hernandez. The department commonly viewed as a revolving for administration positions now only has two vacancies. A number of former police chiefs at Dilley have gone on to serve as sheriff in either Frio or La Salle…

A one-point improvement to the city of Pearsall’s public protection classification could lead to residents seeing a decrease in their homeowner insurance. The community fire protection scoring system is based on a fire suppression rating schedule used by the Insurance Services Office (ISO) to determine insurance premiums. According to Pearsall City Manager Federico Reyes, the…

Moreno Park in Pearsall has reopened to the public this month and includes new bathrooms, all new playground equipment, soft-landing playground surfaces, picnic tables with coverings, and a cornhole area. Construction crews demolished the previous playground equipment in late 2023 after the site failed a code compliance inspection. The park rehabilitation rehabilitation was funded through…

Twenty individuals were arrested in La Salle County during the first two weeks of February 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 Texas Department of Public Safety Highway…

Under an arrangement recently ratified between the city of Cotulla and the La Salle County government, the annual Fourth of July festival will continue as a shared enterprise, although organization of the event will now alternate between the two entities. At meetings during February of the Cotulla City Council and the La Salle County Commissioners’…

“We have come to a point in the road…” Encinal facility’s bond holders will accept $3.1M close-out La Salle County commissioners emerged from a 50-minute consultation with attorneys behind closed doors on Monday, February 26, to vote in favor of paying the remaining debt on the Regional Detention Center in Encinal, a facility that presently…

Pearsall Police Chief Daniel Flores is optimistic that the department is headed in the right direction after the launch of a sponsorship program last month. Flores said the department has developed a sponsorship program that will assist the agency in hiring interested applicants. “With the growing number of departments competing to hire officers, we have…

“I was counting the minutes…” With daily water demands just shy of one million gallons, the city of Cotulla is heading into the spring and summer with a supply system crippled by equipment failures. One by one, the city’s water wells have either broken down or been taken out of service. A month and a…