Police Chief
MacDonald to serve as parade grand marshal
New
Uvalde Police Chief Robert MacDonald will serve as grand marshal of
the Uvalde National Bank Grand Parade Saturday, September 4, during
the Texas Labor Day Weekend Celebration.
MacDonald took over as chief on June 1. He comes to Uvalde
following a 30-year career at the Corpus Christi Police Department
where he served in numerous supervisory capacities.
“We are proud to have Chief MacDonald in our community and are happy
that he accepted our invitation to serve as our grand marshal,”
festival coordinator Wade Carpenter said.
MacDonald holds a bachelors degree in criminal justice from Texas
A&M Corpus Christi. He and his wife Frances have been married for
over 25 years. MacDonald has a daughter and a step-son.
“I know Uvalde has had many chiefs of police in the last ten year,”
Chief MacDonald said. “I want to change that. I want to be a long
term chief and make the Uvalde Police Department the premier police
department it deserves to be.
”Family Fun in the Sun will be the theme of the parade that will
begin at 11 a.m. It will travel south from the UCISD administration
office down North Getty Street then turn east on Nopal to the Willie
DeLeon Civic Center.
Emergency
Responders Treat Victim
Uvalde
Emergency responders treat an auto pedestrian victim in the Highway
90-83 intersection. Staff photo by Joe Rodriguez
TXDOT Officials Continue Work on Highway 90
West
TxDOT-hired contractors continue to work on portions of Highway 90
West. Work is slated to be completed just before the Thanksgiving
holidays.
Grant Award
Celebrated
US
Congressman Ciro Rodriguez, Uvalde
County Judge Bill Mitchell and
Uvalde Mayor Cody Smith speak before a small crowd at the future
site of the Regional Sustainable Resource Campus, located near the
intersection of Highway 90 and
Dunbar Lane. Wednesday's event was held in order to announce the
city and county receiving a $1.126 million grant to fund the
infrastructure for the facility.
Border Patrol seizes more than $2 million dollars worth of marijuana
Del Rio,
Texas
–
Border
Patrol agents from the Eagle Pass South Station made two drug
seizures totaling more than 2,800 pounds of marijuana, with an
estimated street value of $2,278,240.
Around 10:45 p.m., agents working a checkpoint on Highway 57
encountered an 18-wheeler with a tanker trailer. The vehicle was
referred to a secondary inspection area when a service canine
alerted to the presence of contraband. Agents opened the top hatch
of the tanker and discovered 60 large bundles of marijuana. The
bundles contained 1,199 small-bricks weighing 2,477 pounds, with an
estimated street value of nearly $2 million dollars.
An hour later, agents working on a ranch south of Eagle Pass
discovered six bundles of marijuana abandoned in the brush. The
total weight of the seizure was more than 371 pounds with an
estimated value of $296,000.
The marijuana from both cases was turned over to the Drug
Enforcement Agency.
Windy
Strong
winds damaged several business signs last week.
