TASTE OF THE REPUBLIC 2024 Taste of the Republic, the official culinary opening event of Fiesta, will take place Thursday, April 18 at the Briscoe Art Museum. Thirteen San Antonio chef's selected by Chef Brian West will create and serve their vision of Texas cuisine. Ticket holders will be able to sample dishes from all chefs. Each dish will be paired with a carefully selected wine and beer and cocktails will also be served. Tickets are $125 per person, with a portion of the sales going toward the San Antonio Fiesta Commission. The event runs from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
VIA Board of Trustees elect new chair
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The VIA Metropolitan Transit Board of Trustees on Tuesday unanimously elected Fernando Reyes its new chair to lead the department through December 2022, according to a news release.Jamie Couch Karutz /SPECIAL TO THE EXPRESS-NEWS
The VIA Metropolitan Transit Board of Trustees on Tuesday unanimously elected Fernando Reyes as its new chair to lead the group through December 2022, according to a news release.
Reyes will succeed Hope Andrade, who was first elected to the board in the 1990s and has served as chair twice.
Andrade started her most recent term in February and is credited with helping to secure recent voter approval of the Advanced Transportation District s Proposition A, which will rededicate a 1/8-cent share of local sales tax for public transit.
Posted By Nina Rangel on Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 3:32 PM click to enlarge Wikimedia Commons Five custom-made United States flags are the backdrop of the 2013 Presidential Inauguration in Washington DC. For the sixth time in its history, San Antonio-based Dixie Flag and Banner Co. will fabricate the five massive flags that will serve as the backdrop for the next presidential inauguration. The 62-year-old company also created the massive banners for the inaugurations of George W. Bush in 2001 and 2005, Barack Obama in 2009 and 2013 and Donald Trump in 2017. “Over the years, we ve done all sorts of custom projects, but this is certainly one of the more special ones,” Dixie Flags President Vanessa Van de Putte told the