Calendar of Events

Scholarship  Winners: Mercedes High School – Sayda  Veronica Ahumada, Mercedes Early College Academy – Zelinda Camacho, Mercedes Academic Academy – Manuel Murillo and Triumph High School – Jasime Neri  

The Mercedes Chamber of Commerce hosted its highly anticipated Annual Awards Banquet last night, April 26th, at the Llano Grande Event Center in Mercedes, Texas. The evening was filled with […]

New Travel Center to spark  growth with travelers center and restaurants to Mercedes.   Vicatron Energy Inc. broke ground on a  with a center to open in 2023.  The center will […]

During the Texas Street Festival on September 4th, the City of Mercedes launched the first ever GeoTour in the RGV, bringing visitors to the city while providing a new adventure […]

A store that saw customers line up several yards deep when it opened at the beginnings of the Rio Grande Valley Premium Outlets faced a quiet different reality a year […]

Historic Mercedes Cemeteries Memorialize European Immigrants On the corner of Anacuitas and Mile 1W roads, two historic cemeteries sit catty-corner to each other. One is fairly well known with its […]

From her home to the first store near the H-E-B, and now on Texas Avenue, Lyz De La Cerda has kept one thing in mind. “I’m from here, so I […]

Getting back from World War I, Roy Harrell became a Texas Ranger in South Texas. A 1920 photo shows him on horseback, taking a moment with his mount looking to […]

Through Hurricane Hanna, then during a pandemic, with the ordeal of a days-long freeze to come, there was at least one comforting thought for Mercedes residents. Borderland Hardware was there […]

Growing up on north Vermont Street in Mercedes, Maria Carmen Reyes saw firsthand what it takes to own and run a business as the daughter of a shopkeeper. Garcia’s Grocery […]