The local Texas Department of Transportation Staff held a retirement party for Mike Hernandez who leaves after 21 years of service at TxDOT. Mike’s tenure include driving over half a million miles inspecting roadways, assisting in the maintenance of all State highways in Maverick County and as Assistant Maintenance Supervisor…

by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune Aug. 14, 2014 State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, says the state should pay college students’ tuition and fees for two years if they attend a public community college in the state. In a higher education proposal announced…

In Del Rio, 23-year-old Jesus Cardenas of New Braunfels, TX, was sentenced to six years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine for smuggling ammunition from the United States announced U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Eagle Pass Little League Junior Softball All-Stars representing the United States Southwest fell to the Europe/Africa All-Stars from Milan, Italy 7-2 on Tuesday, August 12, 2014, at the 2014 Little League Junior Softball World Series at Everest Park…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. A Maverick County Hospital District (MCHD) Board of Directors majority approved to exempt the Board members from the local hospital district’s established policies and procedures for travel reimbursement expenses which have been in place since May 27, 2010 at…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. Maverick County officials and Eagle Med, a critical care air medical transport company, held the official ribbon cutting ceremony of an automated weather observation system installed at the Maverick County Memorial International Airport on Tuesday, August 12, 2014. The…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The United Medical Centers celebrated the 2014 National Community Health Centers Week in the United States during the week of August 10-16, 2014 with a ceremony at their     El Indio Highway Medical Clinic in Eagle Pass, Texas, receiving two…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Eagle Pass Water Works and Sewer System (EPWWS) Board of Trustees approved the purchase of two Justified Automated Payment-Collection Kiosks to assist customers make their payments through these automated collection kiosks on a 24 hours basis at their…

By: Jose G. Landa, Copyright 2014, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc. The Attorney General of Texas Greg Abbott issued an Opinion (GA-1075) on August 8, 2014, finding that Maverick County Hospital District (MCHD) Board of Directors Rito J. Valdez, III, and Ricardo E. Calderon do not have a conflict of…

Del Rio, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents working in the Del Rio Sector seized more than 1,700 pounds of marijuana, with an estimated value over $1.3 million within a week. Aug. 7 at approximately 4:30 pm, agents from the Comstock Station were attempting to backtrack a group of suspected…