Dec 11 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The man who allegedly cut off part of his own finger while stabbing a friend over a dispute was arrested late Tuesday afternoon. At approximately 7:15 p.m. Friday, December 7, officers with the San Benito Police Department responded to a residence located on the 200 block of Woodford …
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Dec 11 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com After a recent meeting of the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District’s Board of Trustees, it was brought to the attention of elected officials that district security guards are feeling forgotten regarding a recently awarded district-wide employee retention incentive of $1,000 to qualifying employees. Additionally, the San Benito …
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Dec 11 2012
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com When Raul Zuniga isn’t busy carrying out his duties as the chief of operations for the San Benito Fire Department, he enjoys eating tamales. Who doesn’t? The Lozano native and 29-year veteran of the SBFD may not have as colorful a history or tradition when it comes to making …
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Dec 11 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com If you like plump, flavorful fajitas, and you haven’t visited Pilo’s Mexican Café in San Benito, you’re doing yourself a potential disservice. Café owner Porfiro “Pilo” Hernandez hails from Matamoros, Mexico and spent over 40 years as a restaurateur in the Houston area before relocating to San …
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Dec 11 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Temporary blindness won’t stop Lupita Abrego, the 48-year-old church secretary and pianist for First Presbyterian Church of San Benito, from playing an annual recital at the church this Saturday. Born and raised in San Benito, Abrego explained that she has a condition known as Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (Harada’s) disease, which …
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Dec 11 2012
Floats on display at the annual Lighted Christmas Parade in San Benito on Saturday took the theme, “A Neon Christmas,” literally as they lit up Sam Houston Boulevard in a procession of fluorescence and bright, vivid illumination. Entries included schools, businesses, churches and faith-based institutions, organizations and local residents. (Photos by Vince Galvan)
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Dec 11 2012
SAN BENITO, TX—Magdalena Cruz, 82, entered into eternal rest on December 9, 2012 at The Atrium Place in Harlingen. She enjoyed sewing, arts and crafts, and spending time with her family. She is preceded in death by her husband, Manuel Cruz; and her parents, Daniel and Guadalupe Cortez. Magdalena is survived by her children, Otila …
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Dec 07 2012
By ANDREA MOSQUEDA Special to the NEWS The confident expressions on the faces of the San Benito Lady Hounds varsity basketball team Friday should have been PSJA Memorial’s first indication that they were in store for a long night. The Wolverines took the first shot and the lead after the tip-off, but the Lady Hounds …
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Dec 07 2012
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com I apologize if you have grown tired of looking at my ugly mug these last three editions. This was not my intention, I assure you. While I realize there was one other week, and I believe it was recently, in which “Consider This” was published in three consecutive issues, …
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Dec 07 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com This week’s Heather Hopes is a continuation of last week’s. If you haven’t read the first installment, please be invited to visit sbnewspaper.com. Just type in the keyword: Trouble and a Soldier. For everyone else… In the cold, sterile atmosphere of the Breckenridge Hospital emergency room, my phone …
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