CITY OF LAREDO UPDATES
Courtesy Raphael Benavides, LAREDO, Texas—El Metro will offer free rides all day on Friday, November 1 as part of a partnership with H-E-B. City residents and visitors are invited to take advantage of the free service to experience El Metro and attend H-E-B’s Feast of Sharing Thanksgiving Dinner Friday at Sames Auto Arena from 4:00
Courtesy Karen Garza, SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas -The Texas Border Coalition (TBC) is pleased to announce that it has elected Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr., chairman of the organization. Treviño will serve a two-year term effective today. He succeeds Laredo Mayor Pete Saenz who has served as chairman since November 2017 and will continue to represent the
Courtesy Isabel Sosa, LAREDO, Texas— On Thursday, October 17, 2019 city inspectors from various city departments will be conducting a house-to-house campaign with property owners concerning property Maintenance and code violation in the District VII area. Residents are being asked to do everything possible to clean-up their neighborhood of any unsightly conditions that may exist. The City will also
Courtesy Lauren Cavazos, (Laredo, Texas)-On October 15th, the City of Laredo celebrated the “White Cane Awareness Day.” To make this date memorable, Mayor Pete Saenz proclaimed this day as White Cane Awareness Day in Laredo, Texas. A walk followed the proclamation through the streets of Laredo reaching its end at Jarvis Plaza, where some
Courtesy Rafael Benavides, LAREDO, Texas—The Joe A. Guerra Laredo Public Library invites the public to a Meet the Author and Book Signing with local author, researcher, and podcaster Chris James, on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, in the Multi-Purpose Room at the Joe A. Guerra Laredo Public Library, located at 1120 E. Calton Rd. from 6:30
Courtesy Rafael Benavides, LAREDO, Texas—The City of Laredo will begin distributing three truckloads of bottled water to residents in the affected boil water advisory zone on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning today, Tuesday, October 1, 2019, and continuing again on Thursday, October 3, 2019. Only residents who live in the affected area, which includes Districts 1, 2, 3
Courtesy City of Laredo Health Department, LAREDO, Texas—The City of Laredo, City of Laredo Utilities and the Health Department want to let you know that a boil water notice initially for certain sectors of South Laredo has been issued for the entire city as a precautionary measure due to lower levels of chlorine than the
Courtesy Analiza Perez-Gomez LAREDO, Texas—This summer, the Laredo Public Libraries joined 48 other libraries across the United States by serving as a pilot site for a new internship program intended to help attract young people to careers in librarianship. Through its Inclusive Internship Initiative (III), the Public Library Association (PLA), which is a division of the American Library Association
Courtesy Rafael Benavides, LAREDO, Texas – The Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Committee for People with Disabilities (BRCPWD) has been working for over eight years to serve as advocates for those in our community with disabilities by promoting awareness, education and securing resources for their physiological, psychological and social well-being. They also provide guidance and serve as consultants
Courtesy Karen Garza, LAREDO, Texas—The Laredo Public Libraries received a book donation from former Laredoan Luis Guerra during the Laredo Public Libraries Advisory Committee meeting this month. Guerra is a well-known painter, sculptor and storyteller. One of the books donated, Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art, includes an article on Guerra, as well as articles on
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