Robstown News

The seaside village of Cinnamon Shore in Port Aransas on Mustang Island kicks-off the summer season with live music by Spark in the Dark beginning at 8 p.m. in the Town Center.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO To celebrate the inaugural Civilian Appreciation Month by Naval Health Clinic Corpus Christi, newest and longest serving civil service and contractor employees Juanatara McVay , Sandra B. Hlavinka, John O. Vasquez and Leslie Pena, cut a cake.

Special guest was 97-year-old Edwina Wendel Hoff, the only surviving child of the late Fred and Amalia Wendel.

It's important to him that Americans remember that those are freedoms made possible by the bravery of the country's military.

Travel on U.S. Highway 77 through town should improve during the next few years as the Texas Department of Transportation prepares to turn the highway into an interstate.

It happened around 2:45 PM on Monday in Robstown at the Highway 44 East exit at Highway 77.

Belmontes said, "I'm just anxious to get back in the ring and show everybody that I'm still here." - His name is Ramesis Gil.

John Goode's home in the 2400 block of County Road 30 caught fire from a water heater April 28.

Students and faculty at Robstown High School were in mourning Monday, as a well liked alum of that school has passed away.

While those surveyed say that, in general, they like the service the RTA provides, they also said that the system is too slow, according to the survey conducted as part of the agency's A VA manos! Let's Go initiative.

Don't miss it tonight! Expo starts at 4:30 P.M., show at 6 P.M. - Solomon P. Ortiz Center Learn More Officials have planned a week filled with drills, conferences, training and mock evacuations for the county's 2012 Coastal Bend Hurricane Conference and the city's regional exercise.

The father of four said he has seen sheriffs come and go, but decided it's time he got involved.

Thursday night's storm also swept through farmland just North of Robstown. On County Road 69, downed power lines were found lying on top of the crops.

STEVEN ALFORD/CALLER-TIMES A parent takes a picture Tuesday during a scholarship ceremony from the Nueces County Junior Livestock Show Association honoring 24 area students.

"It's just our way of honoring notables here in Robstown," said district board President Osvaldo Romero, who appointed the six-member committee.

Frances Gonzalez-Garcia, 35, who has been at Houston Elementary for more than a decade, won the elementary level award for leadership during the H-E-B Excellence in Education awards ceremony in Houston.

Arnold Transportation Services announced Paul Rasmussen as its new vice president of capacity.

Contributed Photo KSAB's annual Open "Cinco de Mayo" Fajita Cook-off Music Festival will be May 6 at the Richard M. Borchard Fairgrounds in Robstown.

Erasmo Luna, 26, was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of solicitation to commit a crime of violence, the U.S. attorney's office reported.

The event features music, games, dance performances by Ballet Folklorico and area school mariachis.