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Los Angeles-based Sean and Sara Watkins (of GRAMMY®-Award-winning Nickel Creek) share how their musical neighborhood has contracted and expanded over the past year. The brother-sister pair (their album "brother sister" came out in 2020) has taken Watkins Family Hour—their well-loved variety show in residence at Largo for the last 20 years—to Sean’s backyard, where they’ve livestreamed intimate, socially distanced concerts via Patreon. They discuss holding communal space for their Largo family while opening the doors to new friends outside LA and muse on the ways in which lockdown has afforded us a deeper capacity for feeling (are we all crying more?). Finally, they offer a tender reflection on their dear late friend, drummer Don Heffington.

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Cameron County Commissioner David Garza does not give interviews to the media very often. He said he wanted to make an exception on this occasion because of the importance of the topic - securing federal disaster relief funds for the Rio Grande Valley. Garza was part of a delegation from the Valley that visited with officials from the Department of Housing & Urban Development in Washington, D.C., this week. Other Valley leaders on the trip included Hidalgo County Commissioners David Fuentes and Ellie Torres and Willacy County Commissioner Eduardo 'Eddy' Gonzales. Garza said Valley leaders are, thankfully, now taking a regional approach to drainage issues.

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