MCALLEN – Coming back to college means moving forward with your dream of earning a degree, and South Texas College makes it as easy as possible to register and get started.
Keep McAllen Beautiful (KMB) is proud to announce their annual Paint McAllen Beautiful project, where KMB volunteers paint homes throughout McAllen, to help beatify the neighborhood. Qualifying McAllen applicants are being sought to be selected for this year’s program. The qualifying criteria includes that applicants must: be a McAllen resident; own the home; be low income; be 60 years of age or older; or, be of any age with a permanent disability. Through a generous grant from Keep Texas Beautiful, Keep McAllen Beautiful will be able to fund paint and supplies for this year’s project.
The City of McAllen recently created two tutorial videos on the process for individuals to follow to be able to sign up to make public comments at McAllen City Commission meetings. The videos, one in English and one in Spanish, gives information on how to sign up in person or via Zoom, whether the comments are related to a specific agenda item or just general comments, and important deadlines to meet when submitting the appropriate request form. “It is important that in
Normally, every October sees the McAllen Fire Department visiting local elementary schools during National Fire Safety Week, teaching fire safety and other helpful hints, with Sparky and other fire suppression tools and vehicles. However, because of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the usual visits did not take place. As the world learned to adjust to virtual everything, McAllen Fire Chief James Schultz approached the team at the Office of Communications about creating a video that would help teach an important lesson on fire safety, while possibly getting a few chuckles. The result?
lanned Parenthood employees are scrambling to help find new doctors for thousands of low-income patients after Texas officials and a court order booted the women’s health provider from Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the poor and disabled.
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