Tag Archives: San Carlos

The community partnership between the UTRGV School of Medicine, UT Health RGV and Hidalgo County Precinct 4 hosted a ribbon-cutting last week for the new UT Health RGV AHEC Primary Care Annex Building. The new annex clinic will open its door to patients on May 30, increasing availability for primary healthcare for the underserved San Carlos community. ‘Extremely Successful’ Six years ago, in 2018, the Hidalgo County Precinct 4 and the…

UTRGV Students Plant Trees In San Carlos

January 5, 2023

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UTRGV students and faculty helped in the restoring of local nature on Dec. 10 during the Precinct 4 Community Forest Restoration Planting Event. The event at the San Carlos Endowment Center was an opportunity for students to plant trees to reforest one acre of the center. The effort was a collaboration between American Forests, Hidalgo County Precinct 4 and UTRGV, with aid from the Laura Jane Musser Fund. Teresa Feria Arroyo,…

Los Pinos Builds Ties To Rural Communities

August 1, 2022

Ricardo D. Cavazos, VBR content editor

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Mateo Leal saw the burgeoning growth of Rio Grande Valley cities in the early 2000s and noted a gap in how some markets were served. “How about the communities on the fringes of the Valley?” It’s a question Edward Leal recalled his father asking when the family first envisioned the hardware stores that today dot Hidalgo County. Rural areas on the outskirts of city limits were poised for growth but…