School Board Delays Architect Hire for New Junior High
The board tabled selecting an architectural firm for a $29.4 million bond funded project to build a new junior high, remodel campuses, add 20 classrooms, libraries, labs, and facilities. State funds 81 percent. projects include upgrades at San Felipe Middle, East Side Elementary, Garfield Elementary, Lonnie Green Elementary, Buena Vista Elementary, Marion Russell School, and a freshman campus library expansion.
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San Felipe Middle
Buena Vista Elementary
Marion Russell
East Side
Feria del Sol 2000 invites Piedras Negras and Acuna
Community members in Piedras Negras Coahuila invite the Queen City and Ciudad Acuna to Feria del Sol 2000 a multiweek event July 27 to August 13. Organizers plan musical acts shows and performances with cultural groups, a bilingual staff, a cocktail reception and an industrial exposition to promote maquiladoras and local artists. Proceeds will benefit the community and support basic human needs.
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Piedras Negras
Coahuila
Mexico
Queen City
Ciudad Acuna
Feria del Sol
Martha de la Garza
Department of Municipal Tourism
Chamber of Commerce
de la Garza
del Rio
Urbano Santos Benavides
Roadwork on Gibbs Street to disrupt traffic near Bedell
Price Construction Company begins pavement work on Gibbs Street from Avenue F to Bedell Avenue. Weather permitting, traffic delays and congestion will occur at intersections of Avenue F and Gibbs, and Bedell and Gibbs. Work includes grading base surfacing curb and gutter sidewalks pavement marking and storm sewer improvements.
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Price
Gibbs Stree
Avenue F
Bedell
Judges Endorse Smog Plan for Houston
A panel from eight counties led by judges recommended measures to cut smog in the Houston region. Proposals include 5 mph freeway speed reductions, tailpipe testing for most counties, and dropping a no-drive day plan while weighing a noon construction ban. Recommendations are nonbinding on the Texas agency drafting the plan.
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Houston
Houston-Galveston
Chambers
Liberty
Waller
Harris County
TNRCC
Funding bill promises manpower and money for Southwest border
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison announces a Senate Appropriations Committee bill providing about 500 million dollars to expand Border Patrol manpower and facilities. The package funds 1,000 new agents next year, dozens of new stations and checkpoints in Texas, plus up to 25 new assistant U S attorneys for West Texas courts. Hutchison says it realigns federal resources to ease local law enforcement burden and fulfill border security obligations.
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Southwest Border
Kay Bailey Hutchison
R - Tex
Hutchison
Senate Appropriations Committee
Texas
U. S
West Texas
Southwest
Washington
Border Patrol
Near Misses on Train Bridge Prompt Union Warning
Union Pacific Railroad Police Officer Ernesto Flores warns of dangerous near misses as daredevils jump from a San Felipe Creek bridge. Trains pass at 30 to 40 mph with little space between engine and trestle, and officers say two to three calls weekly report people on the bridge. Flores says someone will get hurt or killed if eager thrill seekers persist.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Ernesto Flores
San Felipe Creek
Flores
Freer ISD to begin student drug testing in South Texas
Corpus Christi AP reports Freer Independent School District will require seventh through 12th grade athletes to undergo at least one drug test annually starting July 31. Tests for amphetamines cocaine and marijuana will be random in three phases, with 30 athletes tested per round. Officials say Freer may be first in South Texas to implement such policy amid privacy concerns and calls for broader testing.
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Corpus Christi
South Texas
Freer Independent
Carlos Lopez
Corpus Christi Caller- Times
U.S. Supreme Court
The
University Interscholastic League
Texas Education Agency
Caller Times
Freer
Lopez
Sam McAnear
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