Wal-Mart leaving town after 30 year’s customers dismayed over loss of mega store




What a way to start 2016! Just two weeks into the new year, the biggest retailer in town – Walmart – is closing its doors, impacting about 150 full- and part-time employees and leaving the town and area people disappointed. The store’s final day is Jan. 28, but that could come sooner as the giant retailer sold all its fresh […]

San Perlita high school principal suspended – no reasons given




The principal of the San Perlita High School is absent from the campus as he is under a “proposed termination.” The school district board of trustees voted last week for the termination of Ramiro M. Moreno, the high school principal/athletic director. The board voted after an executive meeting held Tuesday, Jan. 12. Moreno has been principal since 2008, earning a […]

4H & FFA Livestock Show & Fair is Next Week




The 2016 Willacy County Livestock & Fair will kick off with a cook off on Saturday, Jan. 23. Other activities planned for that day include a ranch rodeo and the fair’s queen and princess contest. The livestock show & fair will start Wednesday, Jan. 28 with the delivery of animals and the classification and turn in of weight cards for […]

SLICES OF LIFE Facebook faux pas-Pt. 2



Last week I touched on a few etiquette blunders common to Facebook. As I wrote, the list of questionable situations continued to grow. There are multiple ways to faux pas on FB and as such last week’s column has morphed into a twofer. There are certain rules – or perhaps better put, norms – Facey users follow. The first of […]

5 Generations Celebration



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Behind the Badge

Looking back, forging ahead

I had a little “down time” over the weekend and was thinking about the current situation we are in not only in Willacy County, but the nation and the world as well. For Willacy County, its been a series of setbacks, and it’s to the point where we find ourselves singing the old Hee Haw tune,”Gloom, Despair, Agony on Me,” […]

Voters should hold politicans responible, reader says



Dear Editor: A little over fifty-four years ago, our daughter was born with a rare heart condition. She had a right-sided, three chambered heart. In fact everything was reversed. After six years of tests, medications, etc., a famous heart surgeon and a crew of doctors believed that she had a wall of some kind to attach a patch and make […]

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County approves park master plan, but future of project appears doubtful




A master plan of what is known as the Willacy County Natural Resource & Heritage Center has been approved, but when or how soon the mega project will materialize remains to be seen. The multi-million-dollar plan was presented by a representative from Naismith Engineering Inc. during Thursday’s meeting of the county commissioners’ court. It detailed the phases the center will […]