After months of opposition from community members and property owners in the surrounding areas, Lone Hollow Ranch, a Young Life Camp located between Utopia and Vanderpool, announced it was withdrawing a wastewater permit request filed with the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality. Young Life Camp was previously seeking discharge 60,000 gallons of treated wastewater daily into a tributary of the […]
2021-08-15
Woman files $1M lawsuit over fatal Concan crash
Veronica Lopez of Uvalde County has filed a civil suit seeking over $1 million in damages against Zavala County residents Darell Gene Rivera and Richard Arredondo Jr. in reference to an incident in Concan on Easter Sunday where one woman was killed. Both men are also facing criminal charges for the incident. Rivera, a teenager from La Pryor, is the […]
Lobos play Lady Rockets Tuesday
The Uvalde Lobos will be on the road for high school volleyball competition this week. They will be at San Antonio Tuesday night to take on the John F. Kennedy Lady Rockets. The varsity match is scheduled for a 7 p.m. start, and will be preceded by a freshman match at 5 p.m. and a junior varsity match at 6 […]
Sports Briefs
Cross-Country meet Saturday in Del Rio The Uvalde High School cross-country team will be at Del Rio next Saturday to compete in the Del Rio Invitational running meet. Coach Libby Gonzales’ Coyotes and Lobos will enter the event following action in the inaugural Pete Belman Invitational Cross-Country Classic set to be conducted yesterday at the Upractice complex. Results from that […]
COVID-19 death toll climbs by three
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have risen by 555 in less than a month, from 3,631 on July 16 to 4,186 as of Thursday, and three new deaths were logged last week, bringing the number of county deaths attributed to virus complications to 76. Hospitalization rates have correspondingly risen, but Uvalde Memorial Hospital chief operating officer Adam Apolinar says the hospital […]
Students will receive free meals this year
Student meals will be free of charge for the 2021-22 school year, regardless of income, at area school districts including Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, Sabinal , Utopia, Knippa, Leakey, La Pryor, and Nueces Canyon. The initiative is made possible through a United States Department of Agriculture pandemic relief oriented program. Typically a student’s household must meet eligibility requirement to […]