2020-11-18 E-Edition

BEARKATS BEAT WARHORSES

BEARKATS BEAT WARHORSES #7 ZaRavion Armendarez running up field.

Lyford election winners take the oath of office



Rick Salinas, the top votegetter in the Nov. 3 City Commission election at Lyford, took his oath of office on Monday by Zoom, due to the coronavirus. He received 270 votes, 19.3 percent of the vote. Salinas is one of several Lyford officials who has recovered from the coronavirus infection. Other officials who were elected were able to take their […]

Trial of Juan Manuel Tobias Jr. reset for February in Hidalgo County



Juan Manuel Tobias Jr., whose capital murder case for the alleged killing of girlfriend Nora Rodriguez (Conde) Villalobos has been reset several times, is now on the docket for February in Edinburg. Conde Villalobos, a 49- year-old Army veteran and employee of the Raymondville Whataburger restaurant, was last seen alive at Linda’s Lounge, a Raymondville bar, with her then-boyfriend Tobias, […]

Twenty new coronavirus cases reported in Willacy County; Free testing Thursday and Friday



Willacy County has received a total of 20 new novel coronavirus cases this week, according to five new reports issued since last week’s edition of the Raymondville Chronicle & Willacy County News. In reports signed by Willacy County Judge Aurelio “Keter” Guerra, people ages 2 through 99 years old have tested positive for the virus. A Nov. 12 report lists […]

No injuries or explosion Saturday after “bomb” found on Sebastian street



Willacy County sheriff’s deputies summoned Brownsville’s bomb squad early Saturday after a suspicious package was found on a street in Sebastian. Willacy County Sheriff’s Deputy Merced Rodriguez said he and other deputies responded to a call at about 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Broadway and East Street about a suspicious package found in the street. “It was wrapped in black tape […]

THE LYFORD BULLDOGS ARE BI-DISTRICT CHAMPIONS

THE LYFORD BULLDOGS ARE BI-DISTRICT CHAMPIONS. # 15 Osmar Martinez jumps over a Sharks Player.

SLICES OF LIFE

Thank you, friends

This column is dedicated to friends. Old friends. New friends. New friends who will one day be old friends. Family you’d chose as friends. Best friends. Casual friends. Facebook friends. Editor friends I’ve never met. Peripheral friends. Understanding friends. People you casually encounter who may not be friends (yet) but feel like they are. You all are golden. I learned […]

A GREAT VETERANS DAY

A GREAT VETERANS DAY was enjoyed by Bo MacManus, Elena Macmanus and Maricela Suarez in San Antonio, Texas. All three are Raymondville High School graduates of 1967. Bo is a Vietnam Veteran who was a Medic for the 173rd Airborne Brigade U.S. Army. He was wounded helping his fellow comrades, for his heroic action he got a Purple Heart. After […]

Behind the Badge

And that's the way it is

Where is Walter Cronkite when we need him? For some reason he came to mind the other night as I was turning off one news channel after another. Walter Cronkite was one of the most trusted news reporters of his time, if not the most trusted one. There were others as well, but in my family, you could set your […]