Hidalgo County uses the case status definition provided by the Texas Department of State Health Service’s 2020 Epi Case Criteria Guide revised November 2020.
PHARR – On Friday, July 16th, at around 10:20 p.m. Pharr police officers were dispatched to the 3100 block of North Sugar Road, to a canal bank regarding a 36-year-old female in crisis locked inside her vehicle with a handgun. The call was made to 911 by her family members.
PHARR – On Sunday, July 18, at 8:37 p.m., the Pharr Police Department was dispatched to a canal bank just north of 600 E. Las Milpas Rd. in Pharr, in reference to a single vehicle accident involving an All-Terrain Vehicle and two riders.
I don’t know if a lot of people are noticing what’s happened in Hidalgo County of late, but the hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are almost double what they were four weeks ago. Granted, some are related to people gathering for the 4th of July, and we really won’t know how much of the new cases are tied to the holiday until the end of this week (incubation period post infection), but if the trend continues past this week, we’ll know that something new is afoot. None of it good.
Grab the popcorn, because if you live in Edinburg and like local politics, or live anywhere in the RGV, for that matter, and like local politics because they often have more drama than a La Reyna novella, then you should enjoy this year’s mayoral race between incumbent Mayor Richard Molina and his arch-rival, former Edinburg City Councilman Gilbert Enriquez. Throw in a third mayoral candidate, former City Manager Ramiro Garza who resigned from his job in 2015, and who is reportedly being backed by the Palacios faction, which backed former Mayor Richard Garcia, and there’s even a chance for a run-off.
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