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THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS! GARDEN PARK, B. BRITE, PAREDES
Special to El Rrun-RrunThree Brownsville Independent School District elementary schools took top honors in the Pre-K-5/6th grade chess competition in the 2020 Texas South State Scholastic Elementary...
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BIG NAME ANCHOR BUSINESSES IN FULL FLIGHT FROM B'VILLE
By Juan MontoyaFirst it was Sears.Then, the downtown HEB.And now, Bealls' an upscale department store and an anchor at Sunrise Mall - as was Sears - is flying the Brownsville coop.Bealls scrapped a...
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BISD MEET TO DISCUSS TAKE "ACTION" ON ATKINSON CASE
Agenda Items for tonight's Brownsville Independent School District board meeting:Closed meeting: a. Discussion regarding petition to remove Dr. Sylvia P. Atkinson from the Brownsville Independent...
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AND HOW MANY SOUTH TEXAS STUDENTS ARE GRADUATING?
Special to El Rrun-RunIf we are to believe U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, his commendation of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and its first class of doctors in a speech before the...
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BRITS WEIGH IN ON THE ISSUE OF FEEDING DUCKS BREAD
(Ed.'s Note: Following our story on the wildlife in or resacas, one of our seven readers remember reading a story some time back in The Guardian about the dangers of feeding ducks bread, as some folks...
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KARMA IS A BITCH: ASK AVALOS, WHO RATTED ON CHAMBERS
By Juan MontoyaRemember the Indian Lake Asst. Police Chief Alfredo Avalos who turned state's evidence against his boss Police Chief John Chambers and ended up being named interim chief of the...
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STILLMAN-PAID STUDY: CORTINA COULD HAVE DESTROYED BROWNSVILLE, BUT SOUGHT...
(Ed.'s Note: In 1942, Harvard graduate student Leroy Graf wrote his dissertation financed by a grandson of Charles Stillman depicting his ancestors' commercial ventures in the Rio Grande Valley and...
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"DO YOU WANT HELP OR DO YOU JUST WANT TO BULLSHIT?
LA FERIA – The city of La Feria received special recognition at its last regular meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 25. The meeting was held at the La Feria Recreation Center at 901 Pancho Maples Dr. due to...
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REALLY BELIEVE THAT BROWNSVILLE IS THE SAFEST US CITY?
By Jim SamsClaims JournalBaltimore, Maryland retained its title as the most accident-prone metropolitan area in the nation for automobiles, while Brownsville, Texas took the No. 1 spot for auto safety,...
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LINEBARGER TELLS BISD TRUSTEES A BALD-FACE LIE ON AUDITS
Tueaday, March 10 meeting of the board of the Brownsville Independent School District:1. Recommend approval to accept the contract with Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP for an audit of the...
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CORONAVIRUS CREEPS CLOSER: HOUSTON, NOW MONTERREY
From TelediarioMONTERREY.- After the World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus COVID-19 as a pandemic this morning, the first official case of this disease in the state of Nuevo León was...
View ArticleA READER COMES TO THE DEFENSE OF SHERIFF OMAR LUCIO
Special to El Rrun-RrunDear Editor,I count myself among one of your seven faithful readers and have read "Special to El Rrun-Rrun" contributions to his blog taking Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio to...
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OF EPIDEMICS OF THE PAST: W. GORGAS VS. CARLOS FINLAY
By Juan MontoyaAt the risk of beating on a dead horse, or public sanitarian in this case, we are asking that the administration at Texas Southmost College – in a demonstration of academic honesty and...
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BROS. PHILLIP AND SEIFERT FETED FOR CAMERON PARK WORK
Special to El Rrun-RrunOn Thursday, the Cameron park community celebrated the contributions of Brother Albert Phillip and Brother Michael Seifert to improve conditions in the colonia, a small city...
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WELL, ONE THING'S FOR SURE, RAMIRO HAS A BIG HEAD!
(Ed.'s Note: perhaps not since the days when local attorney Rick Zayas was running for the board of the Brownsville Independent School District have bigger-than-life campaign signs depicting the...
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WILL CORONAVIRUS TURN INTO A GREAT WHITE AS IN JAWS?
By Juan MontoyaRemember in the movie Jaws when Roy Scheider (Martin Brody) and Richard Dreyfuss (Matt Hopper) tried to convince Murray Hamilton (Mayor Larry Vaughn) and the Chamber of Commerce hacks to...
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REMINISCING WITH COUSIN BALDE, FREDDIE FENDER
(Ed.'s Note: We were listening to Freddie Fender's Amor Perdido on the jukebox over at Ernie Avalos' Sportsman's Bar when Rusty Garza, (at left in photo above) told us that Freddie was his aunt's son,...
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IS CORONAVIRUS HERE? AND THE PARTY GOES ON AT SPI...
"Two residents of Cameron County are awaiting the results of coronavirus tests. County officials say the two are among four people who’ve been tested for the highly-contagious virus – the other two...
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