What a tragedy. A 71-year-old man living in rural Edinburg, northeast of the city, stumbles across some Killer Bees on Monday around 1 p.m. and ends up dead. I don’t even know the victim, and yet, I want to raise my face to the heavens and scream, “How is any of this fair?”
Seriously, though, there is an uptick in COVID-19 cases in Hidalgo County and in other parts of the state as well, and who can rejoice over that?
MIA, missing in action, that’s me this week. While I try to write between eight and 10 original stories, columns, for each issue of The Advance News Journal, I’ll be lucky if I can get three written today, Aug. 8, which just happens to be my 68th birthday.
The move by McAllen ISD Superintendent J.A. Gonzalez to Harlingen CISD is really a no-brainer. The same money, probably a little bit more, in the $270K range, with fewer students, and a district that’s chugging along with few problems, while McAllen ISD is looking at a staff reduction for next school year.
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