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More than 100 people attended the sold-out dinner and mystery theater show held Oct. 14-15 at the Uvalde Grand Opera House. Opera house manager Catilin Visel said Joe Tom’s Catering served braised beef, garlic mashed potatoes, brown sugar green beans, and yeast rolls during the theater mystery set in 1936. “Mystery at the Opera House is different each year, and […]
Football playoff picture coming into focus
This week marks the final week of the Texas high school football regular season. Going into the final week of action, the post-season playoff picture is slowly coming into focus. In Uvalde High School’s football district, 14-4A Division 1, three teams had cliched a playoff spot going into action last Friday, while a fourth team needed only a win Friday […]
Linda L. Littleton
Linda Lee Morris Littleton, 70, of Knippa died on Oct. 26, 2022, at Methodist Stone Oak Hospital in San Antonio. She was born on Feb. 23, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois, to Frieda (Kessler) and William Morris. She graduated from Sanderson High School in 1961. She married Bobby Jett Littleton in Knippa on August 22, 1964. She attended Howard Payne University […]
Remember When? Gridiron Gals tackling football
10 years ago Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 Balloting begins: Election official reports good turnout for early voting – To anyone who has stood at front desk of the Uvalde Leader-News and looked across the street at the steady arrival of visitors to the county courthouse it isn’t surprising to learn that during the first two days of early voting a […]
It’s easier to get a gun than a job at Domino’s
Two weeks after the funeral for Amerie Jo Garza, 10, the first of the Robb Elementary School students to be interred following the Uvalde mass shooting, I phoned the manager of my local Domino’s in Stamford, Conn., to inquire about a delivery job. Though I’ve never driven professionally and have been out of the job market since turning 70, I […]
Gun goes off at Utopia School
Utopia school officials say a firearm was accidentally discharged Wednesday at 10 a.m. inside the school’s maintenance shed. Superintendent Michael Derry said no injuries were reported and the projectile remained inside the shed. “This matter is still an active investigation so I cannot talk about it,” Derry said. The Uvalde County Sheriff’s office did not respond to the newspaper when […]
Oxford survivor hosting family event Nov. 19
Zoe Touray, an 18-year-old survivor of the November of 2021 Oxford High School shooting in Michigan, hopes to create community among other youth survivors of school-based gun violence, and she will host a family fun day in Uvalde on Nov. 19. Her first project aims to help recent survivors of the Robb Elementary School shooting. She plans to bring together […]
D’Spain wins October bass tournament
Mark D’Spain and France D’Spain were the first-place winners of the Uvalde Bass Club’s two-day October fishing tournament. On Oct. 15 at Choke Canyon Reservoir, Mark D’Spain took top honors in UBC competition. His three fish totaled 9.31 points. Among his catch was the big bass of the day, a 4.79 pounder. Matt Meyers took second place with three fish […]
Letters to the Editor
Bee fable In 1705 a economist wrote an interesting but very accurate account of how human nature and the economy are so intertwined that one cannot exist without the other. Human nature and economics inspired people like Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton and even Benjamin Franklin. He starts off talking about this beehive which every creature heard stories about were so […]
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