🌱 How Rio Grande City residents can shape future border transportation plans
Rio Grande City, Texas Patch AM: a 2 min readGood morning Rio Grande City! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️
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- How Rio Grande City residents can shape future border transportation plans
Today's riddle: what do you call a rabbit with fleas? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Partly sunny, with a high of 93 and low of 67 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Thursday: Breezy in the afternoon, temps: high: 94, low: 71.
- Friday: Mostly cloudy and windy, with a high of 94 and low of 74 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Alvarez encourages RGV residents to give their input on Texas-Mexico Border Transportation Master Plan (riograndeguardian.com) — Residents in Rio Grande City are being asked to share their concerns and ideas about cross-border traffic, safety, and freight as TxDOT updates its Texas-Mexico Border Transportation Master Plan. Following a Starr County Industrial Foundation event at South Texas College’s Rio Grande City campus, officials urged locals to use an online interactive map by May 27 to highlight problem areas and priorities. 
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🗞 Nearby News
Mission
- Three new trustees secure spot on Mission CISD school board (progresstimes.net)
- External inquiry clears some personnel, questions remain for family (progresstimes.net)
- SVP LLC of Greenwich grabs majority stake in Texas power company (westfaironline.com)
McAllen
- McAllen police search for two men in aggravated apartment robbery investigation (valleycentral.com)
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