Dec 07 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com There has been a freeze placed on up to 10 full-time San Benito Consolidated Independent School District security guard positions, said SBCISD Superintendent of Schools Antonio G. Limón on Thursday. To some SBCISD security guards with tenure of five to 10 plus years, this poses a significant concern. …
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Dec 07 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com San Benito Mayor Joe H. Hernandez has called for a special meeting to evaluate City Manager Manuel Lara. The meeting’s agenda denotes the commission will retire into executive session to discuss item #2, which states: “Executive Session: Under Texas Government Code Section 551.074 to deliberate the appointment, employment, …
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Dec 07 2012
By JOE BOCANEGRA Special to the NEWS BROWNSVILLE – Friday, the University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa and the UT System Board of Regents Chairman Gene Powell, along with UT Brownsville President Juliet V. García, held a town hall meeting to discuss the planned merger of UT-Pan American in Edinburg, UTB, and the …
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Dec 07 2012
NEWS Staff Report LA PALOMA – San Benito police, assisting the United States Border Patrol regarding a family out of Matamoros, Mexico, helped in the seizure of almost 300 pounds of marijuana over a border wall near the La Paloma area on Wednesday, December 5. At approximately 1:38 a.m., officers with the San Benito Police …
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Dec 07 2012
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com At the age of 55, Anna Cruz, vice president of the San Benito CISD Board of Trustees, has made a name for herself as a sharp and resourceful woman whose acute observational competence allows little to escape her. Well, except for that one time. When she was 5, or …
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Dec 07 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com “We are so very thankful,” said Marta Petra Hinojosa, who was recently reunited with two family members whom she had not seen or spoken to in over two decades. “Thank God for the San Benito News. Two of my cousins, the only ones we have there in San …
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Dec 07 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito Police Department, on Friday, November 30, announced the retirement of their K-9 officer, “Copper,” who had been with the force for 10 years. Copper assisted the department as well as other law enforcement agencies in numerous drug operations, said Internal Affairs Detective Rogelio Banda, Jr. …
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Dec 07 2012
RIO HONDO, TX—Guadalupe S. Corona, Sr., 79, was born on October 12, 1933 and passed away on Tuesday, December 4, 2012. He was preceded in death by his wife Miquela M. Corona and his son, Ricardo Corona. Guadalupe is survived by his children, Juan G. Corona, Yolanda Duenes and Antonio Corona; grandchildren, Lucy Corona, Juan …
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Dec 04 2012
By JOE BOCANEGRA Special to the NEWS The fate of the forlorn Dolly Vinsant Memorial Hospital has now passed through the hands of taxing entities and into the possession of new owners. Tuesday, the San Benito City Commission voted unanimously to approve a $10,000 bid by Southern Counties Investment Group, LLC. Back taxes currently owed …
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Dec 04 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com “We’re going to appeal at district court,” said attorney Gilberto Hinojosa on Monday evening, after the San Benito Civil Service Commission unanimously voted to uphold San Benito Police Department Operations Chief Martin Morales’ decision to indefinitely suspend Hinojosa’s client, Candido Ortiz. The decision came Monday during a Civil …
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