Oct 26 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The Mighty Greyhound Band will be traveling to Laredo, Texas for the area marching band competition on Saturday, October 27, or the precursor to the state competition. There are 42 bands competing at this, the Area G, tournament which encompasses all of South Texas, from the Valley to …
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Oct 26 2012
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com There are certain things you just don’t mess with. You don’t mess with Texas; you don’t mess with a man’s motorcycle, and you definitely don’t mess with the Greyhounds. Sixty-one year-old Peter Galvan, a 1970 graduate of San Benito High School, is well aware of these fundamental rules which …
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Oct 26 2012
By PETE BANDA Special to the NEWS PHARR – It was as if all the frustration of a squandered season came pouring out in one game for the San Benito Greyhounds on Thursday night. The ’Hounds nearly broke their side of the scoreboard at PSJA Stadium as they bombed the Bears by a score of …
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Oct 26 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com San Benito’s Lady Greyhound varsity volleyball team will be playing a tiebreaker game against Weslaco tomorrow at 5 p.m. at the SBHS gymnasium. Both teams have triumphed and struggled all year and are currently tied in District 31-5A at 7 wins to 9 losses, each for the season. …
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Oct 23 2012
SAN BENITO, TX—Eloisa “Lala” Nieto, 79, entered into eternal rest on October 23, 2012 at her home in San Benito, TX. She was born on June 6, 1933 to Guadalupe and Beatriz Ramirez. She moved to San Benito from Del Valle, TX at the age of 8 when her parents decided to find farming …
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Oct 23 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com San Benito Mayor Joe H. Hernandez appeared with his attorney and turned himself into Cameron County authorities at the Carrizalez-Rucker Detention Center in Olmito on Tuesday morning after being indicted by a grand jury for alleged abuse of official capacity. In a candid interview on Tuesday, Hernandez said, …
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Oct 23 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Facing third degree felony charges in an indictment handed down by a Cameron County grand jury, San Benito Mayor Joe H. Hernandez turned himself into authorities on Tuesday morning. Hernandez made bail by posting $5,000 cash, after facing a magistrate judge at the Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center in Olmito. …
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Oct 23 2012
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com As the starting quarterback for the San Benito Greyhounds, Jesse Jimenez knows a thing or two about pressure. After all, criticism levied at the 17-year-old playcaller this season has thus far ranged from burdensome to downright intolerable. For instance, a Facebook page was reportedly created to mock Jesse, and …
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Oct 23 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com “Ninety-three years ago, Brownsville Rotarians got on board a train to San Benito,” explained Rotarian Rolando Monsevalles; thus begins the story of the Rotary Club of San Benito, officially chartered in 1919. The Rotary Club was founded in Chicago, IL in 1905 when it became the very first …
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Oct 23 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Theresa Roy and her daughter Eva Bisaillon are not strangers to the quilting process, and they are happy to share their love of quilting and their passion for children in need with the city of San Benito through an endeavor better known as Project Linus. Project Linus is …
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