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Classical Academy Addie Langham Although the families of Uvalde Classical Academy thoroughly enjoyed their two-week Christmas break, the hallways teemed with cheerful chatter as students and staff reunited on Jan. 4. While there are many exciting experiences students look forward to this spring, there is also much to reflect upon from 2021. Before the Christmas break, the 11th and 12th-grade […]
Winter heralds annual migration of porch plants
Every winter we have to weather the same old work-a-thon. It’s the time of year when we have to relocate all the plants on the porch. My wife is just as concerned about protecting her leafy babies as I am about wrapping the faucets and draping a tarp around the chicken hutch. For the first couple of years out at […]
Dean K. Hawkes
Dean Keith Hawkes, 74, of Floresville, formerly of Uvalde and Knippa, died on Dec. 29, 2021, at University Hospital in San Antonio after a prolonged illness. A graveside memorial service at Montell Cemetery will be held at a future date. He was born on Sept. 30, 1947, in Uvalde to Faye (Dean) and Lee Hawkes. During his school years […]
Texas passes bill to protect national security
Texas Senate Bill 2116 (Campbell et al.), now known as the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act, passed unanimously through the Texas House and Senate, was signed into law by Gov. Abbott on June 5 and was effective immediately. The law prohibits companies from China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran from investing in projects connected to Texas’s critical infrastructure, including the […]
Margarita Del Toro
Margarita “Maggie” Del Toro, 73, of Uvalde died on Jan. 7, 2022, at Methodist Specialty and Transplant in San Antonio. Funeral arrangements are pending with Rushing-Estes-Knowles Mortuary, and a complete obituary will appear in a future edition of the Uvalde Leader-News.
Teenager’s first deer is sized to perfection
For a hunt that began inauspiciously in dense fog, the result was pure light for my grandson Rice. The young man killed his first deer the day after Christmas on a friend’s property located 15 miles west of the city. A perfect heart shot dropped the doe instantly. We woke around 5:30, loaded our gear, and I asked Rice to […]
Omicron dominant in Uvalde
Julye KeebleStaff Writer
Uvalde County Health Authority official Dr. Jared Reading said 95 percent of the county’s active COVID-19 cases are due to the Omicron variant. As of Thursday, there were about 476 active cases, up from 76 just a week before. Reading also said a 5-month-old infant who was hospitalized at Uvalde Memorial Hospital on Thursday, the youngest county resident patient to […]
Marines is firefighter of year for life-saving actions
Julye KeebleStaff Writer
For his efforts to save the life of a man who had a heart attack while driving early last year, Rafael Marines was chosen by members of the Uvalde Volunteer Fire Department as the 2021 firefighter of the year. The award was made at the annual banquet, held Thursday evening at the Uvalde County Fairplex. A seven-year member of the […]
Jan. 6 was more than a protest
We know what a protest looks like. People carry signs, shout slogans or obscenities and sometimes attack their fellow Americans or even the acting authorities. In some cases, blood is shed and, too often, people die. On March 5, 1770, an angry mob of colonists confronted British soldiers in the city of Boston to protest unpopular legislation imposed by the […]
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