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Parents and their young children are spread out across a large room at the Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library. They are not there to read books. It’s the first […]

Armando Villela often starts his workday by driving around Mercedes and inspecting the city parks he oversees. The city’s new parks and recreation director has been busy in recent months, […]

Texas Avenue is growing and developing around De La Garza Bakery and Cake Shop on Texas Avenue in Mercedes. A new McDonald’s restaurant has been open for about a year […]

O’s Burgers Serves Up Hot Meals & Hometown Flavors Norma Ozuna spent over a dozen years in the medical field working through the challenges of helping patients and assisting doctors […]

Mercedes Celebrates Opening of McDonald’s It was 10 years in the making and when it happened, the community’s high school band, cheerleaders, and dozens of elated residents were on hand […]

Broker Gives Back Via Business & Chamber Service Hector Rocha Jr., sees opportunities emerging for his hometown from a business office on Vermont Avenue that’s just steps away from a […]

The `Buzz’ In Mercedes Leading To Growth Fred Gonzalez knew 2023 would be a watershed year of economic growth and development for Mercedes. It has gone even better than Gonzalez, […]

Winning Three Local Pageants Sparks Big Dreams Ambition burned bright and early for Genevieve Vallejo. Genevieve was three years old when she went to her first beauty pageant. It was […]

It has been an active year for Starbucks in the Rio Grande Valley as the company has opened three new coffee shops along the Expressway 77/83 corridor. San Juan and […]

At 32 years old, Javier Campos Jr., became the Rio Grande Valley’s youngest fire chief, a Mercedes native coming home to lead a vitally important public safety department. “I was […]