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Houston investigative firm probing San Benito involvement with VARCO
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An investigative firm is probing the San Benito Economic Development Corporation’s involvement with a company developing the city’s first resaca-side commercial center. On Thursday, Wayne Dolcefino, owner of Houston-based Dolcefino Consulting, declined to disclose his client’s name while describing his investigation as...
Garza: If things don’t turn out as planned with the LNG projects, I’ll have to live with it
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – It was David A. Garza, Cameron County’s longest-serving county commissioner, who made the motion to give Texas LNG a 40 percent tax abatement for the next ten years. The company, which is owned by Glenfarne Energy Transition, is building a liquefied natural gas export terminal...
Treviño: I am hopeful the two LNG firms will listen to the concerns of environmentalists
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr., says he hopes the concerns of environmentalists will be listened to as two liquefied natural gas export terminals get constructed at the Port of Brownsville. At a public hearing organized by Cameron County Commissioners Court, dozens of nature-lovers spoke...
South Texas Health System Children’s Hospital Safe Summer Expo
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — School is out and summer is here. South Texas Health System Children’s Hospital and participating law enforcement and safety organizations are set for their first-ever Safe Summer Expo. All families of the Rio Grande Valley are invited to come and participate. Mark your calendars for Saturday, June 8 from 9 a.m. […]
Sanchez: Stop the Dust. Shut Milwhite down altogether.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Valley Interfaith member Adhlemy Sanchez says she has concluded that Milwhite Incorporated should be shutdown altogether. Previously, Sanchez supported having Milwhite moved to a site at the Port of Brownsville, which the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation favored. Sanchez is a community leader in the 250-home Villa...
Reeser: Lt. Gov. Patrick is working to get TSTC a billion dollar endowment
HARLINGEN, Texas – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is working to help Texas State Technical College System secure an endowment that will start at $1 billion dollars. That was the news TSTC Chancellor Mike Reeser gave on a visit to Harlingen earlier this week. The event was hosted by the Greater Chamber of Harlingen.
BCIC to invest $2.4 million in eight new quality of life initiatives
BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation has announced the approval of eight quality of life projects totaling $2.4 million that it feels will be “transformative.”. Among the projects is one championed by the Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts that will allow for online streaming for Brownsville’s...
Memorial Day Program Held to Honor the Fallen Heroes
On Monday, May 27, 2024, the La Feria Veterans Memorial Monument Project Committee held its annual Memorial Day Program at the La Feria Veterans Memorial Monument at 9:00 a.m. This year’s event had a great turnout, with the community coming out to honor our National Heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country.
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