HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Mercedes city manager Alberto Perez has resigned from his position, the city announced. Perez, a Starr County native, started his role as city manager in 2021. The Pan American graduate moved to Houston and Austin before returning home to the Rio Grande Valley...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — In Week 6 of High School Football, Valley Sports Central has nominated three teams for Team of the Week. The nominees are Edcouch-Elsa, Rio Hondo, and Sharyland Pioneer. All three teams won against undefeated teams last week. Here are some recen...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- All IDEA Public Schools in the Rio Grande Valley will be offering free meals to all students in the community starting in October. IDEA says the meal offering is part of their commitment to providing children with access to nutritious food thro...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- DHR Health is inviting the community to join the fight against breast cancer. Breast Cancer Awareness Month kicks off on Thursday, a month dedicated to breast cancer prevention and detection. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...
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On Friday, October 2, beginning at 7:00 PM, Market Square and the surrounding downtown district will come alive for Mucha Lucha, a colorful First Friday celebration....
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F or a while there, it seemed like South Texas’ weather setting had somehow gotten permanently stuck on hotter/drier-than-normal. It’s unstuck now and change is coming — soggier, cooler change. That’s according to the National Weather Service Brownsville/Rio Grande Valley office,...
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SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlink satellites yet, but cut the flight short to ensure safety. The spacecraft reentered over the Pacific and splashed down north of Hawaii three hours afte...
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SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy rocket lifts off from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas, to begin the Starship Flight 14 mission. Image: SpaceX With thirteen suborbital test flights behind them, SpaceX engineers launched the company’s Super Heavy-Starship on its first flight to orbit Monday...
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Emergency vehicles and first responders will be visible at the Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport on Friday, October 9, 2026, during a full-scale emergency preparedness exercise....
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SpaceX’s Starship lifted off from Starbase at 7:48 a.m. Monday, reaching Earth orbit for the first time and marking a significant milestone for the Starship program....
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S paceX launched Starship Flight 14 from Boca Chica at 7:49 a.m. Monday for an attempt at its first orbital test flight, initially expected to last nearly 10 hours before a planned splashdown in the South Pacific far off the coast of Chile. Attempting orbit nearly didn’t happen a...
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UTRGV Medical Libraries are expanding services and research resources for graduate health science students while making electronic resources The post UTRGV Medical Libraries expand resources appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
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The Rio Grande Valley has made various innovations to maintain water resources given the region’s heavy reliance on The post Experts talk about Valley’s water future appeared first on The Rider Newspaper ....
