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Editorial: Let’s make the planet great again
Christmas and New Year’s will be celebrated in the coming days with all the fanfare of holidays past, albeit without the flash and boom of aerial fireworks. That’s because the Uvalde County Commissioners Court voted on Dec. 9, and rightly so, to enact a burn ban and a prohibition on select fireworks due to the ongoing drought. Just how dry […]
Coyotes play in Kingville tourney
Next Friday and Saturday, the Uvalde Coyotes will be in Kingsville to participate in a varsity basketball tournament. They will begin play in the third-annual Kingsville Brahma Holiday Shootout with a game against the Laredo Nixon Mustangs set for a 12:30 p.m. tipoff Friday. Uvalde’s second game of the event is set for 4 p.m. Friday when the Coyotes will […]
Tucker, Arredondo win UBC tourney
Vick Tucker and Pete Arredondo are the first place winners of the final Uvalde Bass Club fishing tournament of 2019. Tucker and Arredondo claimed top honors in the December tournament held at Amistad Lake. With three fish that weighed a total of 10.02 pounds, Tucker finished first on Dec. 7. Among his catch was the big bass of the day, […]
Volunteers dish out 1,200 tamale plates at 14th-annual event
Melissa Federspill Staff writer Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has added its dose of sugar, spice and everything nice to the holiday season once again by bringing back the annual tamalada for the 14th consecutive year. This year’s community-wide event was held Wednesday evening from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Willie De Le Civic Center where more than […]
Craig Poindexter
Craig Poindexter Craig Poindexter, 88, of Arlington died Dec. 5, 2019, in Arlington after a battle with cancer. A celebration of life will be held at 1 p.m. on Jan. 18, 2020, at First Presbyterian Church in Arlington. He was born on July 2, 1931, in San Antonio to Clifford Mae Craig and Dr. Cary Allen Poindexter. He grew up […]
County considers gun control
Julye Keeble Staff writer Hunting is big business in Uvalde County, Jesse R. Moreno told Uvalde County Commissioners recently as they considered enacting a potential gun control ordinance. Land ownership and gun control are hot topics in Texas, and Uvalde is no different according to the majority of residents addressing the idea of establishing a required minimum acreage amount for […]
Man delays arrest via barricade on Chaparral
Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office blocked off Chaparral Street and Reyes Alley for approximately two hours Thursday evening when a man barricaded himself in his home rather than submit to arrest. Deputies learned that Jeffery Scott Bateman, 46, was residing at 300 Chaparral St. and proceeded to the location to serve a warrant issued yesterday for drug possession and two indictments […]
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