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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.

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