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1Farm Fest Seeks To Raise Historical Awareness

Farm Fest Seeks To Raise Historical Awareness

Oct 14, 2022

Farm Fest Seeks To Raise Historical Awareness The spirit and legacy of local farming history runs strong at the Eschete Livestock Company on Mile 2 West Road. It’s there where Victoria Eschete talks enthusiastically of the upcoming South Texas Farm Fest on November 5 at the Mercedes Dome Safe Center. The all-day Saturday event in […]

2Young Entrepreneur Finds Bliss In Mercedes

Young Entrepreneur Finds Bliss In Mercedes

Sep 30, 2022

Young Entrepreneur Finds Bliss In Mercedes Cindy Avalos has years of experience working at restaurants of all types and at every level. It’s in her blood. Her parents are longtime restaurant owners and operators. Avalos began young, helping her parents with a Mexican food restaurant in her native Harlingen. It would be the start of […]

3Series Of Groundbreakings Highlight Mercedes’ Growth

Series Of Groundbreakings Highlight Mercedes’ Growth

Jul 29, 2022

Series Of Groundbreakings Highlight Mercedes’ Growth For Mercedes, groundbreakings have kept shovels in dirt as city leaders and business owners have welcomed a surge in growth with every indication of more to come. Just in recent months, groundbreakings have been celebrated for a Sonic CRUSH Drive-In, a Valley OMS Dental Center, and most recently, for […]

4Gateway Travel Center Sparks Growth

Gateway Travel Center Sparks Growth

Jul 22, 2022

Gateway Travel Center Sparks Growth A city of Mercedes tarp was up and there was a hint of rain off in the skies east of the groundbreaking site for the Gateway travel center development that community leaders say is just the beginning of what’s to come for the Mid-Valley city. It was a mid-July afternoon […]

5Drainage Improvements Boost Mercedes Development

Drainage Improvements Boost Mercedes Development

Jul 8, 2022

Drainage Improvements Boost Mercedes Development The city of Mercedes like many other Rio Grande Valley cities has had its share of flooding after heavy rainfall. In more recent times, there was the downpour of over 15 inches in June 2018, which was followed a year later, same month, with a similar big rain event. Then […]

6New Development To Bring Travel Center & Restaurants to Mercedes

New Development To Bring Travel Center & Restaurants to Mercedes

Jun 24, 2022

New Development To Bring Travel Center & Restaurants to Mercedes One of the nation’s premier fuel distributors will develop and open a 12,000-square-foot travel center in Mercedes – a first of its kind in the Rio Grande Valley. Victron Energy, Inc., plans to break ground on the project this summer and open its travel center […]

7Ten-Ten Leaves Memories In Mercedes

Ten-Ten Leaves Memories In Mercedes

Jun 17, 2022

Ten-Ten Leaves Memories In Mercedes Charles Bertholf took longing glances at the trucks rumbling over the site where his beloved community store stood. The Ten-Ten Grocery store on east 2nd Street where it intersects with FM 491 was a place, Bertholf said, “everyone knew.’’ It harkened back to the history of a small town when […]

8Top Texas Dentist Comes Home To Open New Facility

Top Texas Dentist Comes Home To Open New Facility

May 13, 2022

Gary Schwarz is a Mercedes Tiger, a 1971 graduate and all-district running back and linebacker in his playing days. Growing up as a self-described farm boy north of Mercedes, Schwarz could see himself having fields of cotton, lettuce, and strawberries coming up under his watch, just like his father, a farmer and rancher. His mother, […]

9Program Developing Leaders For City’s Future

Program Developing Leaders For City’s Future

Apr 22, 2022

Program Developing Leaders For City’s Future Mercedes has launched a leadership program to develop improved civic awareness and gain a better understanding of how the community works, with the goal of working for a better city. Leadership Mercedes is modeled after similar well-established programs in other Rio Grande Valley cities and around the state and […]

10Queen City Food Park Serves Up New Options

Queen City Food Park Serves Up New Options

Apr 8, 2022

A half-acre expressway spot between Vermont and Texas avenues was paved, developed, and ready with four food trucks and picnic tables in the midst of the grounds as Mercedes Mayor Oscar Montoya spoke of what it took to get to the Saturday morning event. “I want to thank the Gonzalez family for investing in Mercedes,’’ […]

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