TBB Staff

Sullivan City, TX – Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) announced $3,539,318 in secured federal funding for the City of Sullivan El Faro Road Flood Mitigation Project. This project will support upgrades to El Faro Road and the drainage infrastructure. It will also help alleviate areas prone to heavy flooding within the community and restore damaged infrastructure that is critical to the safety and wellbeing of the community.

The City of McAllen is currently working on railroad improvements along Trenton Road between north 2nd Street and north McColl Road.

Mission, TX - When property owners in Mission Consolidated Independent School District (CISD) receive their tax bills this fall, they will see a reduction in the tax rate for the fourth year in a row. The Board of Trustees adopted a property tax rate that is 6 cents lower than the previous year.

Mission, Texas- Mission Consolidated Independent School District (CISD) has announced the start of the Mission CISD Virtual Learning Academy, which will offer qualifying students an opportunity to continue their instruction at home.

AUSTIN - Governor Greg Abbott today presented the 2021 Star Of Texas Awards to peace officers, firefighters, and first responders who demonstrated heroism and sacrifice in service to their communities and the Lone Star State. The Governor was joined for the ceremony in Austin by Texas First Lady Cecilia Abbott.

BROWNSVILLE, TX – Brownsville Border Patrol Station (BRP) agents assisted a motorist from her smoking vehicle shortly before it was engulfed in fire.

EDINBURG, TX – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents with the assistance of local law enforcement officers encountered an unaccompanied Salvadoran child in Brownsville, Texas. They also arrested 34 individuals in multiple unrelated smuggling incidents.

EDINBURG, TX — The Museum of South Texas History welcomes Martin Salinas for his bilingual presentation, “La etnohistoria de la población nativa del delta del Río Bravo o Grande,” at 2 p.m. on Sept. 19 on Facebook Live.

MCALLEN, TX – No one likes going to the emergency room. Yet, when STC instructor Abigail Rodriguez rushed her husband to the ER, a familiar face made the ordeal easier to bear.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $700,000 grant to the city of Brownsville, Texas, to renovate a former warehouse to create the Cannery Public Market, a multi-purpose community building in the Mitte Cultural District. This EDA grant will be matched with $1.1 million in local investment.