FEATURED: Priscilla Garza of Edinburg, a junior and School of Nursing major at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, was recently appointed the new ApplyTexas Advisory Committee student representative. She is the first UTRGV student selected for the position....

Leaders representing dozens of area medical and healthcare organizations accurately predicted a public health catastrophe as COVID-19 first arrived on the scene more than two years ago, which convinced Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortéz to take dramatic actions that arguably prevented what could have been even more deaths, hospitalizations, and social and economic misery since March 2020.

The Laredo-Webb County Bar Association recently honored Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo – whose Senate District 21 includes all of Starr County – with the 2022 Liberty Bell Award at a luncheon in their hometown

Isha Mittal, a third-year medical student at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, is the most recent recipient of the U.S. Public Health Service Excellence in Public Health Award.

Myra L. Ayala, Edinburg’s recently appointed city manager, is a rarity in more ways than one as the top leader of the municipal government for one of the most populated (100,000+ residents) cities south of San Antonio.

Prominent media attorney Thomas Williams, who also serves as a member of the Board of Directors, Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, will highlight an open government seminar to be held in Edinburg on Monday afternoon, June 13, 2022, reports attorney Omar Ochoa.