`Mother Church’ Of Mercedes Gives Its Community Faith And History
Every community has its enduring touchstones that its residents turn to again and again. Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church is one of those places for Mercedes. The church’s first […]
Every community has its enduring touchstones that its residents turn to again and again. Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church is one of those places for Mercedes. The church’s first […]
Edna Rincon Martinez is a doer, a community banker with deep ties to her community and a way of life that has always been about giving back to her community. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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