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Superintendent Ashley Chohlis may remain serving Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District through at least January 2028, school trustees decided Jan. 23. After a roughly three-hour closed session meeting, trustees unanimously voted to extend Chohlis’s contract for an additional year. She recently rang in one year working in Uvalde and will continue to make about $198,0000, the same rate the district […]
UCISD trustees back Chohlis
Superintendent’s contract extends through January 2028 but lacks pay raise
Main Street Uvalde loses accreditation
Uvalde’s Main Street program has lost accreditation with the national program, joining 29 other Texas cities that dropped to affiliate status. Statewide, more than 45 percent of Main Street programs, from 64 in 2023 to 35 in 2024, lost accredited status. Main Street America offers affiliates various grant programs. Accreditation is recognition of local program efforts, and some grant and […]
Six people die in two Zavala County wrecks
Those who died from Batesville, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Georgia The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating two wrecks about six miles apart on U.S. Highway 57, with one on Jan. 21 leaving five people dead and another on Jan. 22 resulting in one death. Carmen Ruiz, 50, of Batesville died in the Jan. 22 crash between a mini […]
American Cancer Society names Uvalde relay event of the year
The American Cancer Society announced Jan. 15 that the renewed Uvalde Relay for Life is the 2024 Pat Flynn Spirit of Relay Nationwide Event of the Year. ACS said it chose the Uvalde event because it stood out by celebrating survivors and caregivers, holding a meaningful luminaria ceremony with more than 1,000 lighted bags, and organizers surpassing the original fundraising […]
Penalty for smuggling immigrants came as harsh surprise
All it would have taken to head off disaster was a single call to Uvalde. That was the conclusion Jesse White shared last week during an interview about his four-year incarceration on human smuggling charges. “If I had had the foresight to ask anyone down here what was going on at the time, obviously, I wouldn’t have done it,” Jesse […]
City: Streets need work, TIRZ not a ‘done deal’
Uvalde City Council discussed infrastructure, including how to fund and prioritize competing needs for repair of Uvalde streets, when they met for about 2 hours and 25 minutes on Jan. 14 at city hall. All city council members were present. Councilman Ernest Santos asked to discuss street work, as well as a potential Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone (TIRZ). The state […]
Lucille P. Wise
Lucille Pickett Wise, 78, of Utopia, died on Jan. 14, 2025, at University Hospital in San Antonio. She was born on Sept. 29, 1946, in Crystal City to Dorothy Petry and Joseph Pickett. She married Marion Wise on Jan. 6, 1968, in San Antonio. The couple celebrated 57 years of marriage this year. Her family said she was a sociable […]
AgriLife hosting private applicator training
Uvalde County Extension agent Noel Troxclair will be conducting three training sessions in the upcoming months for obtaining a private applicator license. The sessions are scheduled for Jan. 28, March 25, and May 27, and will all begin at 8 a.m. in the Leona Room at the Uvalde County Event Center at the Fairplex. The cost for the class is […]
River region presenting budget to county
Hailey Hart Conrad, Texas Hill Country River Region executive director, will present the 2025 budget to Uvalde County Commissioners when they meet Jan. 27 at 10 a.m. in the first-floor courtroom at the courthouse. THCRR manages the county’s hotel occupancy tax revenue. County grant writer Carl Esser will provide updates on Knippa projects, including a truck for the Knippa Volunteer […]
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