TBB Staff

DHR Health (DHR) announces its 14th Annual FREE DHR Community Health Fair, Saturday, January. 18, 2020, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Edinburg Conference Center at Renaissance.

Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) is encouraging eligible Central and South Texans to apply for the additional $550 million in federal grants and loans announced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the ReConnect Pilot Program.

It was nearly a year in the making, but the Testing Center at Texas State Technical College has become the first in the Rio Grande Valley to earn national recognition by the National College Testing Association.

Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) announced $149,762 in federal funding for the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program in Hidalgo County and the City of Mission.

The Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley will be hosting its annual Farm Dinner from 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm, Saturday, January 25, 2020, at the Food Bank RGV located at 724 N. Cage Blvd. in Pharr.

A 22-year-old resident of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to import approximately nine kilograms of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.

Attorney General Ken Paxton joined Louisiana’s friend-of-the-court brief which was filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in support of Mississippi as it seeks en banc review of a law prohibiting non-emergency abortions past the 15th week of pregnancy.

The Weslaco Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that this year marks the fifteenth year of Leadership Mid Valley. A program of the Weslaco Area Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Mid Valley is an eight-month program that seeks to identify and motivate emerging leaders and develop their potential for community leadership by exposing them to the realities, opportunities, and issues our community may face.

The Leadership Mid Valley class held its government session for the month of December. Class participants were given the chance to meet with several government officials and entities at the city, county and state levels.

The U.S. Census Bureau is ramping up it's national recruiting efforts to hire up to 500,000 temporary, part-time census takers for the 2020 Census in communities across the country to reach its goal of more than 2 million applicants.