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The city of Uvalde announced on Wednesday, Oct. 18 that it has disbursed $186,917 of $405,000 donated to benefit families affected by the mass shooting at Robb Elementary. The city said disbursals include $130,539.09 for monuments; $1,026 for grass for new burial plots; and $55,352 for utility payments for families. “There is currently $218,206.90 in unspent funds which will continue […]
School district celebrating after school program
One of Uvalde’s after school programs will participate next week in a nationwide celebration of the Afterschool Centers on Education’s 25th anniversary. On Oct. 26, the local ACE program will celebrate “Lights On Afterschool,” a nationwide rally in recognition of after school programs, like ACE, that have offered community services to children for decades. The local ACE program has been […]
Herby Ham Activity Center offers full slate of activities
Events and activities this month at the Herby Ham Activity Center, 248 FM 3447, include a farmers market, water aerobics, board games, and line dancing classes. Weekly events include table games, with bridge and pinochle played Monday at 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m., respectively, and Bunco on Thursday at 2 p.m. A farmer’s market is held every Thursday at 10 […]
Los Slow Cookers smoke 2023 competition in Concan
Uvalde’s Los Slow Cookers BBQ came out on top this year in the annual Fall on the Frio Gear up for Game Wardens cook off, held earlier this month in Concan. On Oct. 7, Los Slow Cookers, comprising locals Wade Carpenter, Luis Fernandez and Dominick Fernandez, were named 2023 grand champions after scoring first place for their pork, second place […]
Lobos end season Tuesday
The Uvalde Lobos will end their 2023 volleyball season Tuesday when they travel to Pleasanton to face the Pleasanton Eagles. Varsity action is set to begin at 6 p.m., while the two sub-varsity matches will begin at 5 p.m. In the first district meeting, Pleasanton beat the Lobos, 25-20, 25-21, 21-25, and 25-15. Coach Debra Martinez’s Lobos, 2-8 in district […]
Bereavement Center toils to heal fractured lives
The Children’s Bereavement Center of South Texas has assumed a front-line position in dispensing healing to a community shattered by May 24. It is a multi-dimensional challenge, because the range of trauma spans families who lost children, students who survived the massacre, others who were there but not physically injured. And the rest of us. The organization, which is based […]
Uvaldeans enjoy successful tennis season
The Uvalde High School tennis team was eliminated from post-season playoff action at Jourdanton High School last Tuesday afternoon. Corpus Christi Tuloso-Midway topped the Coyotes and Lobos, 12-7, in the dual-team match for Class 4A Region IV quarter-final honors. Coach Nolan Pritchard’s Uvaldeans won three of the seven doubles matches, including the boys number-one match, and the girls number-one match […]
UMH expo a grand offering
Women from Uvalde and the surrounding area were the clear winners when the curtain came down Tuesday during the return of the Women’s Health Expo held at Uvalde’s Willie De Leon Civic Center. The event demonstrated once again that the opportunity for women to come together in an atmosphere of learning and mutual support has a real place in our […]
Friday is last chance to see home football game
How times flies! It seems like we only played the first home football game of the season yesterday. But, the final home game of the season is set for next Friday night. Only seven weeks ago, the Coyotes made their 2023 home debut in Uvalde High School’s Honey Bowl with action against the Poteet Aggies. Since then, we have had […]
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