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The business sign of a Mercedes mainstay – Elsy’s Jewelry – had faded over the years along its location on Texas Avenue between Expressway 83 and downtown. Emma Adame has […]

Sumera Shaheen and her husband Qadin Siddiqui are Brownsville residents – for now – but their business interests have a decidedly Mid-Valley and Mercedes tilt. Quadin owns the Q&A Food […]

Jackie Valdez’s office is mobile and can be found anywhere from South Padre Island to Mission and upstate to San Marcos. These communities and many others in Texas have been […]

Mario Salazar’s Bare Knuckle Tattoos & Barbershop business is on Texas Avenue but located a bit out of view on the city’s main thoroughfare to Expressway 83. In business since […]

Alvaro De Leon likens it to doing detective work. The chief building official for the city of Mercedes in this case is looking to track down the owners of abandoned […]

No Rio Grande Valley city embraces its Western heritage likes Mercedes does. Drive around the city and you will see tall and colorful boots sitting on street corners. They aren’t […]

Nick Dozer is a Buckeye transplant with an affinity for music who is forging a connection to Mercedes and the Rio Grande Valley. The southern Ohio native opened his South […]

Keep Mercedes Beautiful crews can often be seen along FM 491 in doing their work of diligence and duty to improve their community. It’s an all-volunteer effort. There is no […]

Nayelli Valdemar was trying to balance life and work as a young mother when deciding last year to take a bold step in setting herself up as a 25-year-old entrepreneur. […]

Roel Villanueva’s spacious new fireworks warehouse just north of Expressway 83 in Mercedes is a fulfillment of a boyhood interest in pyrotechnics and a way to give back to his […]