Places to visit

Texas Hill Country River Region will host its second-annual “Frio River Trash Bash” on Sept. 14, offering music and snacks for volunteers who want to float the Frio River and play around the water while clearing trash out of Concan. Last year, THCRR donated nearly $3,825 to non-profits such as area fire departments in exchange for about 85 volunteers removing […]

Downtown merchants along North Getty Street and the historic square stay open later on the second Friday of the month for Four Square Friday. There is often live music and themed programming, depending on the month, holiday, and season. Party on the Plaza is set on the fourth Friday of the month, when standalone vendors set up across from the […]

With a roadmap in hand from a life of using art as tool for healing, Abel Ortiz, the visionary behind the Healing Uvalde portrait murals, knew that a public art installation would help mend his shattered community reeling from the senseless murder of 19 fourth-graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary. Ortiz, a professor of art at Southwest Texas Junior […]

From the Music on Main live music series to its free legal clinics and children’s story hour, El Progreso Memorial Library offers a plethora of services. Built in 2004 and designed by architecture firm Hidell Associates of Carollton, the $5.7 million library is an approximate 36,000-square foot building that houses about 57,585 books, a used bookstore, the Virginia W. Davis […]

Artist John Cerney, known for his towering murals, spent several days in Uvalde in November 2023 installing depictions of Los Palominos band members, the late star Dale Evans and actor Matthew McConaughey along U.S. Highway 90. After packing the trailer he pulls behind his truck about half full with art piece sections, he drove for approximately three days, covering 700 […]