Native Son Of Mercedes Gave His Life To Preserve Freedom
Guadalupe Garcia-Carrasco took out a special flag every Memorial Day and Fourth of July and spread it over a bed or table and smoothed it over in remembrance with memories […]
Smokin’ On The Rio promotes competition, reaching youth active in agriculture
There are cookouts and then there’s Smokin’ On The Rio. The Mercedes-based event, with its full name of Smokin’ On The Rio State Championship BBQ Cook-off, has become a yearly […]
Land Company Founded Mercedes & Changed Face of The Valley
By the early 1900s, the Rio Grande Valley was ready for a makeover – and Mercedes would be right in the middle of it. After over 100 years of living […]
Life-Long Learning Propels Mercedes Leader to Serve
As Dr. Barbara Baggerly-Hinojosa sees it, great leaders are trained, educated and formed through study and practice, and not born with the great traits of leadership. The Waco native and […]
RGVLS- 80 Years in the Making!
Before there was the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show and the beginnings of the community that’s so closely tied to it, there were the vaqueros, “the original cowboys,’’ as a […]
Taking A Step Up To Preserving Mercedes’ History
Jodie Oliver Martinez walks up to his historic home on south Missouri Avenue in Mercedes and cautions a visitor on taking the final step up to the over 100-year-old house. […]
Ashley Nicole
Sitting in one of her two businesses at the outlet mall in Mercedes, Ashley Nicole Werbiski marveled at how she turned a degree in criminal justice into a photography studio […]
Rios of Mercedes
Trainor Evans recalls his conversations with Zeferino Rios, the father of boot making in the Rio Grande Valley, a craftsman who opened his first shop in Mercedes in 1929 and […]
Mercedes Boot-Making History and Tradition
The boots of Mercedes reside in the National Archives in Washington D.C., a gift to a president from the son of a Mexican immigrant. It was October 1953 when President […]
Into the Woods
Into the Woods By Eileen Mattei From the deck at Estero Llano Grande State Park in Mercedes, I watched approximately 2,000 black-bellied whistling ducks in Ibis Pond as they looked […]