Every year people across the nation celebrated and honor the peacekeepers for a week in May. On Thursday morning, the Jim Wells County Sheriff’s Department held their annual National Police Week ceremony to honor local men and women who wear the badge.
An Edinburg woman was arrested and two undocumented immigrants were detained Tuesday afternoon after a chase through Alice. The chase ended at the intersection of Highland and Fifth Street when 22-year-old Alondra Aketzali Alejandro crashed her white Ford Fusion into a Department of Public Safety trooper.
Judith Mae Gohmert had cake and balloons on Tuesday, May 17 to celebrated her 100th birthday with her family at the Meridian Care of Alice. Gohert was born on May 17, 1922 in New Ulm, Texas to William and Erna Schuette.
Angelica Silva and Crystal Salinas, teachers at Alice Independent School District, recently received the Texas COVID Learning Acceleration Supports (TCLAS). Silva is a teacher at Noonan Elementary and Crystal Salinas teaches at Alice High School.
The Alice Independent School District Education Foundation awarded its first grants to William Adams Middle School art teachers Anthony Munoz and Ricardo Mireles, who are incorporating technology into traditional art classes.
Yvonne Arredondo of Falfurrias was been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s Winter 2022 President’s List. Full-time undergraduate students who have earned a minimum grade-point average of 3.700 and above are named to the President’s List.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white man accused of killing 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo appeared in court Thursday, standing silently during a brief proceeding attended by some relatives of the victims after a grand jury indicted him.
Domestic Violence Support Groups • Domestic Violence Support Groups are now forming. For information call the Women’s Shelter — The Purple Door, outreach office in Alice, Texas at 664-8598.
Texas Mutual Insurance Company has awarded a $100,000 grant to Del Mar College (DMC) to continue funding its Safety Institute, Transportation Training Services program safety course for Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) drivers and other new initiatives. These initiatives provide workplace safety courses for community employers, workers and the general public.
CHRISTUS Health is drastically expanding access to health care across the Coastal Bend with the launch of CHRISTUS On Demand Care. These virtual visits allow patients to meet with a CHRISTUS Health caregiver through live video from their smartphone, tablet or computer for their urgent care needs from 7 a.m. to 7 p. m. every day of the week, including Saturday and Sunday, and even holidays. This new service compliments scheduled virtual visits that are already in high demand and available to new and existing patients.