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Fred Gonzalez’s first contact with the Mercedes Chamber of Commerce occurred when as a regional manager for Dollar General he attended a ribbon cutting in his hometown. It was then […]

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 […]

Bernabe Rios and his wife, Leticia, were having lunch recently at a pizza restaurant on west 2nd Street and through its windows could see a hometown restaurant just down the […]

Mercedes will take to the skies on Saturday, March 1, with Skyfest and its 1st Annual Kite Festival. The event will kick off at 10 a.m. at the Mercedes Dome […]

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, […]

The Dallas Cowboys already had two pro shops in the Rio Grande Valley and knew they needed a third store in the region. The initial inclination was to open a […]

The South Texas Independent School District got its start in 1964 as a rehabilitation school district and over the years developed into a multi-county vocational magnet school district with campuses […]

A recent television report referred to Enrique Camargo as “The Last Bootmaker” in Mercedes. Camargo’s custom boot shop has been a mainstay in Mercedes on 2nd Street/Business 83 for decades. […]

Basilio Mendoza is a lifetime runner and former cross-country coach at several high schools in the Rio Grande Valley. Mendoza has also worked for years on the staff of The […]

David Abrego spent years away from his hometown, starting with dreams of being a doctor before earning a law degree and become a practicing lawyer in Texas and Colorado. Abrego […]