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Keep up with what’s going on in Devine, Natalia, Lytle, Bigfoot and Moore areas in Medina, Frio, and Atascosa Counties.

New mandated voting equipment, $777K new storage building approved

Editor’s note: Election Equipment Quote Correction
The Devine News would like to acknowledge there was an error in an article last week titled ‘New mandated voting equipment, $777K new storage building approved’, about quotes for voter equipment upgrades. There was a misquotation of the Elections Administrator Lupe Torres. We stated that the price for using HART, our current voting vendor, increased from $270,000 to $288,889. The correct information is that the costs for the upgrade of our voting system actually decreased from $370k down to $288k. This decrease is because, with HART, Torres would be able to convert his current election equipment and convert his controllers and access touches into scanners instead of having to buy new ones.

On Oct. 7, 2021 at 10 a.m., the second half of the Medina County Commissioners Court Meeting started with Continue reading “New mandated voting equipment, $777K new storage building approved”

$5 million funded for the Camino Real Community Services Center to battle mental illness, emotional disturbances, and substance abuse

Lytle, TX – Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) announced $4,996,436 in federal funding for the Camino Real Community Services Center to support Continue reading “$5 million funded for the Camino Real Community Services Center to battle mental illness, emotional disturbances, and substance abuse”