TBB Staff

UTRGV graduate student Ruben Garcia is focused on learning about the medical and business fields for a project.

Councilman Jose Alberto “Beto” Vela announces his intent to run to continue serving the citizens of Mission, Texas as City of Mission Councilman, Place 4. Vela filed the necessary paperwork and application at Mission City Hall on Friday, January 24, 2020.

The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) announced on Wednesday that senior catcher Conrado Diaz, senior outfielder Coleman Grubbs, and senior infielder Christian Sepulveda of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) baseball team are part of the Preseason All-WAC Team as voted on by the head coaches.

South Texas College’s Starr County Campus is built on what used to be far-spreading melon fields. They represented a huge cash crop for the growers, a source of work and income for local farmworkers, but also a place of discrimination and injustice for Valley residents.

The International Museum of Art & Science is one of six museums nation-wide chosen to participate in the Cultural Competence Learning Institute (CCLI), a partnership between Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM), Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC), Association of Children’s Museums (ACM), and Garibay Group, a research and evaluation firm based in Chicago specializing in informal science learning.

The Texas A&M University Law School Dean Robert B. Ahdieh spoke to students in the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD (PSJA ISD) Pre-Law and Law Enforcement Institutes regarding the law school admission process on Friday, Jan. 31.

Hidalgo County Precinct 4 Commissioner Ellie Torres, in collaboration with La Union Del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), and Rincon Del Valle residents, will host a Street Lighting recognition event to acknowledge and celebrate the installation of street lights placed in their subdivision.

A major credit-rating service has awarded high marks to McAllen ISD.

Mission High School had several students qualify State in various categories for the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA). They will be heading to the FBLA Texas State Leadership Conference in Galveston, Texas on March 25-27, 2020.

For the second-straight game, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Vaqueros women’s basketball team defeated CSU Bakersfield, who entered the day atop the Western Athletic Conference standings, 66-52 on Saturday at the Icardo Center.