Residents of the Mesa del Norte subdivision Thursday celebrated a settlement that will lower their high base water costs to an affordable level. The residents, who are represented by Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA), described the agreement with the Fabens Water District as a “victory” that brings relief after eight years of battling high water […]Read More
For a few years now, after being able to travel to different places, read new things, and listening more, I have wanted to make a personal change, to evolve the narrative of this day – Thanksgiving. Although – honestly speaking – as a Mexican-American Texan, Thanksgiving has always been more about football than anything else; […]Read More
Earlier this week, County Commissioner Carlos Leon hosted an unveiling ceremony for the renaming and dedication of the Clint Station to our fallen Deputy Peter J. Herrera. Deputy Herrera was killed during a traffic stop in San Elizario in March of 2019. Thousands turned out for his procession – which made its way by his […]Read More
The El Paso Border Youth Athletic Association (BYAA) announced a milestone achievement by its own Community Coordinator and BASE Play RBI Coach, Veronica Larquier of Clint. First volunteering for the baseball coaching program because it represented a supportive structure after school for her son, Larquier of Clint has now invested more than four years in […]Read More
On Wednesday, officials with San Elizario High School announced their Honored Alumni for 2019: Samuel Sanchez Sanchez is well known in San Elizario, as a member of the El Paso Historical Commission and as a previous President of the San Elizario Genealogy and Historical Society. He presently works at T&R Chemicals, Inc. as a chemical […]Read More
On Monday, San Elizario ISD officials announced the winners in their 4th annual STEM Tank Innovator Competition. Students were asked to submit an “invention,” which they create using components that already exist, or an “innovation,” which they create from scratch. While the projects were based on global issues, students were encouraged to think about what […]Read More
For the past 16 years, San Elizario ISD’s Garcia-Enriquez Middle School (GEMS) has participated in the El Paso Do The Write Thing (DTWT) Challenge. Over 7,000 students in the El Paso County participated in this year’s Challenge and only 40 were selected as semi-finalists. Among those 40 were Alexa Piñones, Darlene Silva, and Evelyn Trejo— […]Read More
For most young girls in high school, getting a haircut can be nerve-racking because they never know what the end-product will look like. However for Marlene Gonzalez, a senior and Cosmetology 2 student at San Elizario High School (SEHS), cutting 14 inches of her hair was not such a big deal especially when it is […]Read More
A total of 220 third graders from San Elizario ISD’s elementary schools received a free dictionary courtesy of Kirk Robison, Chairman of Pizza Properties, Inc. and owner and operator of El Paso’s Peter Piper Pizza restaurants. For over a decade, Robison has donated dictionaries to third grade students from across the El Paso County. It […]Read More
The Socorro High School mariachi group, Los Gavilanes de Socorro, received a Division 1 superior rating, the highest rating possible, at the 2019 UIL State Mariachi Festival in the Performing Arts Complex at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg, Texas. Socorro ISD had three of the four mariachi groups in the region […]Read More
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