From the Web - El Cenizo, Texas
Park closer (Laredo Morning Times): A proposed multiacre park in El Cenizo took a major step toward becoming a reality last week when city officials approved the park's design and initiated a bidding process for its construction.The 10-acre facility, which will be built along the banks of the Rio Grande, will include a regulation-size soccer field, a covered basketball court pavilion, batting and pitching cages, a walking trail ... Know laws, parents told (Laredo Morning Times): Parents of special-needs students should be well-versed in the federal laws regulating how their children are disciplined in order to avoid unfair or unnecessary reprimands, according to Special Education legal experts.Representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Disability Law Center and the National Alliance on Mental Illness were in El Cenizo and Laredo on Thursday.