Although the Rio Grande Valley has less than five percent of the population of Texas, as of mid-October 2020, the region accounted for about 17 percent of COVID-19-related deaths in the Lone Star State, according to Congressman Vicente González, D-McAllen.
By the time you sit down to read this week’s print edition of The Advance News Journal, the 2020 presidential election is now in the rearview mirror, or is it?
The Texas Department of Transportation is advising motorists of possible traffic interruptions and delays as the westbound frontage road S. Main St. exit and entrance ramps along IH-2 will be closed, beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, October 1 and continuing through Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.
EDINBURG – Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez issued the following statement Wednesday morning regarding the 2020 election:
EDINBURG – Officials with the Hidalgo County Health and Human Services Department are reporting four new cases of West Nile virus and three new cases of Dengue Fever – two mosquito-borne illnesses that serve as reminders that Hidalgo County is in the middle of mosquito season.
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