City cracking down on 8-liners but casinos going strong in Lyford




The only vehicles seen outside the Sizzling 777 casino parlor on Business 77 on Thursday night were not from patrons. They were from law enforcement officers and from the city, following Thursday’s crackdown on two of the four eightliners operating in town. Inside the business premises, the scenery was also different. Instead of the predominantly older patrons that frequent the […]

Filing period for May election ends,

D.A. draws 2 opponents, Pct. 3’s Serrato gets 3


The filing period for the May 2016 Democratic and Republican parties ended Monday and a few more hopefuls stated their intentions to run. They include former Willacy County district attorney Juan Angel Guerra and local attorney Annette Hinojosa, both of whom are challeging Bernard Ammerman, the incumbent district attorney. Several people filed to run for five constable seats in the […]

Skate park moves along as city approves bid




The proposed skate park the city will build is moving along as the commission approved a bid to construct it. A Florida-based company, called Misiano Construction & Remodeling, submitted the only bid at $10,000 below what the city budgeted for the project. The bid was for $125,000 whereas the city budgeted $135,000. Construction of the skate park is set to […]

SLICES OF LIFE

Finding the holiday spirit

It’s the season of celebration. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah or Festive Festivus – whatever your phrase of choice, it’s a lovely time to celebrate and believe in miracles. People all around are joyous and giddy with cheer. To further illustrate the magnificence of the holiday, ugly Christmas sweaters are back in style. Some of them even feature blinking […]

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EON Magic Valley Wind Farm offering scholarships



The Coastal Bend Community Foundation (CBCF) announces the opening for submission of the online scholarship application effective December 15, 2015 through March 1, 2016 for E.ON Climate & Renewables North America Higher Education Fund for Willacy County – Magic Valley. The charitable fund was established by Magic Valley Wind Farm I, LLC to set aside a portion of proceeds from […]

Behind the Badge

Rescue the Perishing

Well, the Christmas season is upon us and we are being bombarded with all kinds of items on sale that somebody suggests, “we just have to have to get through life.” Christmas is the time of gift giving, unfortunately we are mostly concerned about gifts for ourselves and our families. However, there are, some people who won’t have any Christmas, […]

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San Perlita School News



AROUND CAMPUS December 7- 13th was Computer Science Education Week. Ms. Rosanna Gomez’s 5th grade science class participated in the Hour of Code on Monday and Tuesday. Students created various programs for different computer games such as Star Wars, Mindcraft, Frozen, Ice Age and Angry Birds. They were given objectives at 16 different levels of increasing complexity. They had to […]