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Palmview’s Manuel “Ricky” Garcia retires Eighteen years ago, La Joya ISD and the greater La Joya community entrusted one man to lead a new era of La Joya Baseball when Palmview High School opened. That man, a former college baseball player and longtime assistant coach at La Joya High, had no qualms with…
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Rattlers advance to Final Four There are times when a dream becomes a reality and reality becomes a dream. For the Sharyland Rattlers’ baseball team this is one of those times as they’ve accomplished what no other baseball team in Sharyland High School history has ever accomplished, securing one of the highly coveted…
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Rattlers make Regional Finals Surviving is what humans do best—struggling against violent circumstances, resisting the diabolical urge to quit, experiencing the catharsis attached to success, all of it essential to our being. Now consider that, out of the seventy-plus high schools across the RGV, only two remain in the UIL State Baseball playoffs.…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Veterans Memorial High School DI Quick Thinkers captured first place at the Destination Imagination Global Finals, earning top honors in both the Instant Challenge and their Team Challenge, event organizers announced. Competing May 22-23, the Mission CISD team posted the highest score in the Instant Challenge, a fast…
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The Mission city council in two weeks will consider repealing an ordinance that created the historic preservation overlay district, to move into compliance with its own rules. The city established its historic commission in June of 2021 through ordinance 5035, and that group has not met for a couple of years, city records show.…
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La Joya ISD launched a new tracking tool to promote transparency and ongoing accountability throughout its five-year strategic plan. Chief Technology Officer Haissam Mayasi developed an online dashboard to monitor the district’s progress in executing the strategic plan, also known as Achieving Excellence Together 2030. The public can view the current status on…
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