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U.S. Honor Flag displayed for fallen Brownsville Border Patrol agent
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The United States Honor Flag will be displayed in honor of a fallen Brownsville Border Patrol Agent. According to a social media post from the U.S. Border Patrol, agent Jesus Anaya died May 23. Anaya was assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector – Brownsville Border Patrol Station where he served […]
Brownsville commissioner speaks to defeat of municipal district
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A proposal to replace Brownsville’s two existing economic development organizations (EDOs) with a single Municipal Development District (MDD) might have had a better change of success if city officials had done a better job of communicating to voters about it. That’s according to...
Brownsville ISD removes 5 books from libraries, reviews others
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Brownsville Independent School District has removed five books from its libraries after activists raised concerns related to House Bill 900 during the public comment period at the May 21 Board of Trustees meeting. Gov. Greg Abbott signed HB 900 into law in September,...
Commentary: Los Fresnos teacher had special impact on Coast Guard family
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We are a military family who moved to Los Fresnos in the fall of 2021 due to my husband’s job with the U.S. Coast Guard. He is an XPO at the Aids to Navigation team at Station South Padre Island. We moved from Sitka, Alaska. At the time, my girls were 8 and 10, going into third grade and fifth grade. They attended a school in Alaska that was situated on the ocean, and they played in tide pools during recess and PE. They both would go on hikes in the mountains, kayak to islands and take field trips to local salmon hatcheries. Coming back to a traditional school was going to be a challenge. My oldest was having the hardest time as she is an active child.
Brownsville home among author’s list of buildings that define Texas architecture
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “I am large, I contain multitudes,” wrote Walt Whitman. He was talking about himself, but the words apply equally to the architecture of Texas. I have a substantial library on the subject — monographs, guidebooks, essay collections, scholarly studies, photographic compilations — and not one of those books might be considered definitive. Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture (University of Texas Press, $45) gets about as close as any. A chunky, colorful pleasure, it is the work of historian Kathryn E. O’Rourke, who provides the text, and the architect and critic Ben Koush, who supplies the photographs.
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