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UMH wins care excellence award

Uvalde Memorial Hospital has won Press Ganey’s 2023 Human Experience Guardian of Excellence Award and 2023 Human Experience Pinnacle of Excellence Award. Press Ganey said that, as a winner of both awards, UMH falls in the top 5 percent of health care providers in delivering a positive employee experience in the last year. “These types of awards are a reminder […]

Medina Electric Coop awarding $25,000 in student scholarships

Apply by March 1 Medina Electric Cooperative is accepting applications for the 2024 scholarship program, which provides money to be used for continuing education during the 2023-2024 school year. The electric cooperative will give 20 $1,000 scholarships to graduating high school seniors and five $1,000 scholarships to adults pursuing higher education. The parent, legal guardian or applicant must have an […]

Sonic Drive-In celebrating Tess Mata’s birthday

The Uvalde Sonic location will be celebrating what would have been Tess Mata’s 12th birthday on Feb. 6. Tess enjoyed a No. 1, which is a Sonic cheeseburger without onions, tots, and a vanilla Coke. Tess was one of 19 children and two teachers who died on May 24, 2022, in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. She is […]

UCJLS names Koehl 2024 honorary superintendent



The Uvalde County Junior Livestock Show Association recognized longtime rodeo lover Casey Koehl as this year’s honorary superintendent. Career rodeo coach and family friend Roy Angermiller presented the award to Koehl’s wife, Daneane, toward the end of the 85th annual stock show on Jan. 27. Koehl, of Uvalde, died last August in a San Antonio hospital after suffering a stroke. […]

LCRA, Bandera Electric award $19K to Utopia fire and rescue

New catchment system will provide additional water supply for firefighting

Utopia Volunteer Fire and Rescue will install a rainwater catchment system and storage tank at the fire station and attached community building, thanks to a $19,320 grant from the Lower Colorado River Authority and Bandera Electric Cooperative. LCRA has awarded more than $995,000 in Community Development Partnership Program grants for a wide range of projects across LCRA’s wholesale electric, water […]

Correction

The story titled, “Young Uvaldeans show off grilling, cornhole skills,” that appeared on Page 2 of the Dec. 21, 2023, edition of the Leader-News should have identified 9-year-old Adele Barboza as the fourth-place winner of the Kids Que competition. Kids Que Nation misidentified the winner as Sierra Mena. The newspaper regrets the error.

Border-focused truckers’ convoy to pass through Uvalde on Feb. 2

A convoy of truckers seeking to seal the U.S. southern border will pass through Uvalde this afternoon, according to the Uvalde Police Department. The Quemado-bound “Take Our Border Back” convoy, which is expected to consist of numerous trucks and other vehicles, will travel westbound through town on U.S. Highway 90. Convoy participants say they will gather in Quemado, located north […]

Junior high student was trying to sell handgun to another student

Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District police removed two Morales Junior High School students from campus after one student brought a handgun to school and attempted to sell it to another, UCISD said on Feb. 1. The district did not say whether the gun was loaded or unloaded. District spokesperson Anne Marie Espinoza reiterated later that afternoon that both students were […]

Two weeks remain to file for school board candidacy

With the filing window two weeks out from closing, no one had applied to run for a seat on Uvalde’s school board as of Jan. 31 while Sabinal had one incumbent candidate. For the Uvalde CISD, three seats, those of Luis Fernandez, Rob Fowler and Cal Lambert, are opening in the May 4 election. In Sabinal, two seats, those of […]

UCJLS names Koehl 2024 honorary superintendent



The Uvalde County Junior Livestock Show Association recognized longtime rodeo lover Casey Koehl as this year’s honorary superintendent. Career rodeo coach and family friend Roy Angermiller presented the award to Koehl’s wife, Daneane, toward the end of the 85th annual stock show on Jan. 27. Koehl, of Uvalde, died last August in a San Antonio hospital. He was 49 years […]


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