Rio Grande City native Cesar R. Perez has been selected to the Rio Grande Valley Sports Hall of Fame (RGVSHOF). An induction ceremony is set to be held at the Pharr Events Center on Saturday, June 22. According to the RGVSHOF website, Perez was one of the Valley's best pitchers in the 1970s at Rio Grande City High School, posting strikeout games of 19, 18 and 16. A four-year starter, he was named to all-district teams twice before graduating in 1975. He went on to pitch for

According to a press release from the Rio Grande City CISD, student athlete, Irene Barrera, officially signed to wrestle for an NCAA Division 2 School at a signing ceremony held on Friday, January 11, at Rio Grande City High School. A senior at Rio Grande City High School, Barrera signed to Gannon University. She has wrestled for two seasons at Rio Grande City High School, and is currently 9-2 this season having placed 1st at the Austin ISD All-Girls Tournament this past Dec

Grulla native, J.M. Longoria III, will star in an upcoming dramatic short film which is set to be distributed to educators across the country as a tool for teaching tolerances. Patches Entertainment in association with Olive Productions and PR present Bibi, a ten minute short form film set in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley which the team describes as a tale of love, hope, and forgiveness. The plot of the film centers around a young Latino man who receives a mysterious last letter

In 1917, Woodrow Wilson was the U.S. president, the United States had just entered World War I, and Esperanza Barrera Vasquez was born on December 12, marking her grand entrance into the world. Born 101 years ago, Esperanza, a lifelong resident of Mission, Texas, is one of over 70,000 centenarians living in the United States today and one of more than 2,000 in the state. For the past several years she has been bedridden, at her home in Mission, due to dementia, which robbed h