Del Rio Weather Brings Storm Rain Totals and Delays
Heavy thunderstorm drenched Del Rio with about two inches of rain early today. Rain gauge on Weather Station Road recorded 1.92 inches as data collectors note September’s recurring wet pattern and October’s drying trend. Police monitored a flooded Gibbs Street Veterans Boulevard intersection after a two a.m. to five a.m. outage. drivers ignored barricades at a low water crossing on Kings Way, stalling two vehicles.
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Johnson Boulevard
Leonel Martinez Jr
del Rio
Weather Station Road
Dale Reed
Shortwave Weather
Reed
National Weather Service
Val Verde
Weather Service
Comstock
Antonio Becerra Jr
Gibbs Street
Veterans Boulevard
Becerra
Kings Way
News-Herald
Karen Gleason
Cantu Road
Spring Lake Estates
Cienegas Creek
Civic leader Jim Murdoch remembered for devotion to Del Rio
Del Rio mourns Jim Murdoch a longtime civic leader and Coors distributorship partner who died Saturday after a prolonged illness He and his wife Elizabeth Sue moved from Mesquite Texas and became active in promoting the city He helped start the Wild Game Dinner and led Del Rio Days at the San Antonio Rodeo and Livestock Show with volunteers cooking large lamb meals credited by Lin da Henderson Del Rio Chamber of Commerce manager with his enduring community impact.
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Jim Murdoch
del Rio
Murdoch
Elizabeth Sue
Mesquite
Texas
Coors Beer
Laverne Foster
Jimmy
Foster
Don
Don Foster
Linda Henderson
Merce
Henderson
Coors
Jim
San Antonio
Teachers get help to pay for supplies
San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District trustees approve a $60,000 classroom supply reimbursement plan for teachers. Half funded by the state Classroom Supply Teacher Reimbursement Program, the rest matched by the district, with $184 allotted per teacher. Reimbursements via online application through the district accounting department, first checks in December before Christmas, second round in February.
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San Felipe del Rio Consolidated Independent School
Private ships spur annual X Prize Cup plan
Competition to honor private spaceflight expands after SpaceShipOne won the $10 million Ansari X Prize for a second time in five days. The X Prize Cup will begin 2005–06 at White Sands and near Las Cruces New Mexico, with five categories and multimillion-dollar incentives, aiming to attract hundreds of thousands of spectators and sustain private space efforts worldwide. International Technologies of St Louis joined as event sponsor.
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Mojave
Calif
SpaceShipOne
Burt Rutan
NBC
New Mexico
Peter Diamandis
White Sands Missile Range
Las Cruces
Southwest Regional Spaceport
Diamandis
International Fuel Technologies of
St. Louis
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George Navajar
Southwest Texas Junior College
Joe Labadie
National Park Service
Amistad National Recreation Area
Lee Murdoch
James Murdoch
Accounting Department
Reim
Sports
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