AUSTIN – Texas needs more Registered Accessibility Specialists (RASes). Although 2,000+ construction projects are registered statewide with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), only 545 people are licensed to review and inspect those projects to ensure that the projects are designed and constructed to comply with the Texas Accessibility Standards.
Odette Canales is the Food Service Director at San Diego Independent School District. She was nominated by Aramark to the 2022 Summer Meeting Awards-South, and she earned the Embrace an Entrepreneurial Spirit Award.
A $7,500 check from Driscoll Heath Plan was presented to Alice Independent School District Tuesday. The donation is to support the district’s goal of providing 2,000 students with backpacks for the 2022-23 school year.
On Thursday evening the new ben Bolt - Palito Blanco High School principal was introduced at the school board meeting to parents and staff. LD Johnson III is the new High School Principal at Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco Independent School District.
It’s that time of year. Students are headed back to school and parents have started shopping for clothes. Mi Casa Home Health and Hospice, and Team Chevrolet Buick GMC of Alice partnered to bring back the annual Kicks for Kids event.
Three Alice Independent School District employees were recently invited to present a session at the Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education Conference (TCASE) in Austin, Texas. Dr.
J.M. Lozano, Texas State Representative, had the privilege to speak to high school seniors Thursday morning. The students from around the region including Alice are enrolled in the Emerging Professional’s Program at Del Mar College.
AUSTIN - On a sweltering summer day in South Texas, Linda Duran rode in air-conditioning on her way home from seeing her husband at the nursing home. She was taking a public transit service she uses every day to also get to work and the grocery store, and now Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is investing nearly $150 million to help people like Duran across the state.
First Community Bank (FCB) is expanding its customer base, announcing today it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire loans and deposits of the two existing Investar Bank, National Association locations in Alice and Victoria.
Texas families have through July 31 to enroll their newborns at 2021-22 prices in the Texas Tuition Promise Fund®, the state’s prepaid college tuition program. Newborns are children younger than 1 year of age at the time of enrollment.