Despite the windy Saturday morning, farmworkers waited outside the El Paso County Courthouse entrance to receive their first shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. El Paso-area farmworkers have not been prioritized to receive immunizations by ...
After months of waiting for an appointment and a 45 minute bus ride, Verenice De La Mora received the Johnson & Johnson single-shot vaccine at the Border Agricultural Workers Center on March 12. “I was ...
By 7:30 a.m., cars were lined up around Horizon City’s Holy Spirit Church even though its food distribution site wouldn’t open for another 30 minutes. Virginia Marin and Martha Montellano took advantage of the wait ...
Remove your shoes, open the door, ring the bell three times and walk toward the altar to pray. That’s what Hindu devotees do every time they enter the Southwest Hindu Temple on El Paso’s West ...
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