Dr. Hans Mark, a world-renowned aerospace engineer who was in Mission Control during the first moon landing and who 20 years later, as chancellor of the powerful University of Texas System, helped lawmakers bring Pan American University in Edinburg and Brownsville into that prestigious higher education network, died on Dec. 18 at the age of 92.
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley was recently named a 2021 Top Colleges for Your Money by Forbes.com, joining a prestigious list that also includes Stanford, Princeton, Georgia Tech, Harvard and MIT.
The 54-year-old daughter of a prominent local political family, Monica Melissa Palacios Patterson, signed a petition Dec. 21 at the central Texas-area women’s prison where she is currently housed for life with no chance of parole after she was convicted of capital murder in November 2017. The petition asks the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to once again consider her felony conviction because she is innocent, according to her new attorney.
Pharr Mayor Ambrosio Hernandez, M.D., and local leaders have announced that they have made the decision to cancel the New Year's Eve Ball Drop event scheduled for Friday due to the recent spread of the omicron variant.
Note: It’s the week between Christmas and New Year’s, and to tell you the truth, I am plumb worn out with a complete lack of energy. It’s been a long, hard year, and the prospects for 2022 come with no guarantee as to how the pandemic will play out — good, bad, or ugly.
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