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The Uvalde de las Encinas Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution has scheduled nine meetings for the 2023-24 year. The club has set its meetings for the third Saturday of the month at El Progreso Memorial Library, 301 W. Main St., beginning at 10:30 a.m. On Sept. 16, the club will celebrate constitution week with 38th […]
Pastor’s Column: Founding on rock allows us withstand life’s storms
Suggested readings: Isaiah 22:19-23, Psalm 138, Romans 11:33-36, Matthew 16:13-20. The readings this Sunday are about authority. They tell about the structure and authority of the Church and of the steward who will maintain truth. Authority isn’t popular because, as Americans, we like autonomy and want to decide for ourselves what is good or not. Religion is not a democracy. […]
School board to hold budget hearing
Trustees to discuss superintendent search, appraisal board membership Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District will hold a hearing Aug. 28 to discuss its proposed budget and tax rate for this fiscal year. The proposed budget, compared to last year’s, contains a 1.23-percent increase for debt service, a 6.79-percent decrease in maintenance and operations and a 6.61-percent decrease in total expenditures, according […]
Becoming a citizen of the State of the River Bank
In the 2022 book “Riverman,” the author quotes a Sports Illustrated columnist who once described paddling a canoe as “the most inadvisable means ever conceived for the transportation of man by his own efforts.” My experience with paddling was limited to two and three-day trips on the Devils and Nueces rivers, as well as Lake Amistad. So when good friend […]
Patterson to speak at rotary club
The Rotary Club of Uvalde meets at noon each Thursday at the Uvalde Country Club. This week, on Aug. 31, rotarians are scheduled to hear from Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District interim superintendent Gary Patterson. On Sept. 7, Anna Nandin of the Middle Rio Grande Workforce Development will discuss vocational rehabilitation. On Sept. 14 rotarians will hear from Kim Munoz […]
Art contest, book launch set in memory, honor of Alithia Ramirez
Alithia’s Art Angels, an organization started in remembrance of Robb Elementary School shooting victim Alithia Ramirez, will present prizes in its second-annual art contest on Oct. 12 at El Progreso Memorial Library during a book launch for “Alithia Ramirez was an Artist.” The contest is open to artists that have just completed kindergarten up to recent high school graduates. To […]
News intern reflects on summer work
To quote my favorite, and the best, musical artist of all time Taylor Swift, “I’ve got a hundred thrown out speeches I almost said to you.” Ok, well maybe not speeches exactly, but I thought a lot about what all I wanted to write for my final assignment. I started my internship with the Uvalde Leader-News on May 29, 2023, […]
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