Celebrating 126 Years of Serving the communities of Devine, Natalia, Lytle, Bigfoot, and Moore in Medina, Frio, and Atascosa Counties
Warhorse Roger Gutierrez swings away.
Jerel Beaty
Staff Writer
Nine of twelve District 29-4A games involving the Warhorse baseball team were decided by three runs or less. Unfortunately for Devine, seven of those games were won by the opposition as the State Playoffs were not in the cards for the 2024 season.
The Lytle Pirates beat the Natalia Mustangs winning District, they will go on to face West Campus in the Bi-District playoffs.
The Pirates defeated Natalia at home last Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 4 – 2 on great pitching from Jair Flores. Flores threw a complete game and allowed 2 unearned runs while striking out 8.
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The Natalia Lady Mustangs beat the Poteet Lady Aggies to capture the Bi-District title in softball.
Araceley Segovia drove in four runs on three hits to lead Natalia Lady Mustangs past Poteet Aggies 13-1 on Thursday. Segovia doubled in the fifth inning, scoring three runs, and doubled in the fourth inning, scoring one.
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By Victoria Arredondo
Staff Writer
Stephanie Blanks of Go Medina informed the Natalia City Council about a huge project coming into the area called “Project Cinco.”
“All these projects have code names, they don’t reveal who the company is [and] there’s lots of nondisclosure agreements, basically it’s a data center that has purchased 440 acres that’s between Natalia and Lytle,” Blanks said. “When they’re done building and constructing everything, the estimate is probably about a 500 million dollar investment,” she said. “This is huge…
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By Victoria Arredondo
Staff Writer
Come join Napa Auto Parts as they host a grand opening ceremony for their third store located in Devine where attendees can enjoy free food Friday, April 26 and live music by The Solis Brothers, a car show, a bounce house and a drawing for prizes on Saturday, April 27.
Located on 202 E. Herring Ave. in the old fire station in downtown Devine, this free event will last from Friday and Saturday, April 26-27. Catered by Dirt Road Cookers, attendees will have a chance to try a slice of a 10 – 12 foot pizza!
They will begin serving pizza on Friday beginning at 11:30 a.m. until supplies run out.
There will be a tool tent sale. Gearwrench will also…
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Early voting started for May 4 elections
City of Devine- City of Devine Council has two contested races. District 1- Between Rufino Vega and Ray Gonzales. Vote for one. District 3- Between Stacey Pyron and Jeff Miller . Vote for one.
Voters in Natalia ISD will decide on two propositions. Natalia ISD will start Early Voting on April22 running through April 30th. Election Day will be May 4th. Here is a little about the two bonds totaling approximately $23 million.
Prop A is a $17,465,000 bond which will provide additions and updates to the Elementary some of which include new classrooms, library, life skills room, courtyard, front entrance and admin offices, and relocating the playground. It will also provide renovation of the…
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By Anton Riecher
Better understanding the intricacies of tax collection might have helped avoid a property tax shortfall that impacted the 2022-2023 city budget, Devine City Accountant Denise Duffy explained to the city council at its April 16 meeting.
“I know that one of your questions was on the property tax and why we had a shortfall on that,” Duffy said. “So we budget 100 percent of our property tax. We say we’re going to collect 100 percent. We actually collected 87 percent, roughly.”
The council questioned Duffy on the budget following the city’s recent official outside audit in which the city received an unmodified or “clean” opinion, the highest…
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The City of Lytle will be hosting a townhall style meeting soon to ask citizens their opinion on the establishment of a Drainage or Stormwater Utility, and if taxes or a fee should be used as the funding source.
It is a viable strategy for local governments to respond to the challenge of generating reliable revenue to support stormwater management activities. Setting up a drainage utility allows a community to establish a user fee based on the demands property owners place on the drainage system. Fees
The council voted to go to the public to ask their opinion on how to proceed at their April 22 council meeting.
