Jan 22 2013
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut, author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint, has offered another opinion on a mysterious Santa Muerte statue that still resides on the grounds of the San Benito Municipal Cemetery. In response to Dr. Antonio N. Zavaleta’s comments in a Jan. 20 San …
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Jan 22 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The family of San Benito CISD Board Member Oscar Medrano is asking the community of San Benito for prayers as he remains hospitalized after falling severely ill. According to the board member’s brother, Manuel Medrano, Oscar was admitted into Valley Baptist Medical Center on Friday, January 11, following …
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Jan 22 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Superhero princesses need a superhero mother, and that is what Venessa Zepeda is to her two daughters. Zepeda, a counselor at La Encantada Elementary School outside San Benito, recently had her first children’s book published, appropriately titled Superhero Princesses. While the book is obviously a work of fiction, …
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Jan 22 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Gwendolyn Cowgill can tell a story, but it was the stories she heard as a child that inspired her recent work. “When we were children, we always heard of her story,” said Gwendolyn Cowgill of San Benito about her grandmother, Elfie Irene, whom her recently published book, And …
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Jan 22 2013
Attending the 2012-2013 San Benito Greyhound Quarterback Club Football Banquet were Jacksonville Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew and NFL free agent Chris Horton. Jones-Drew (seated) and Horton are shown with San Benito Greyhound Head Football Coach Spencer Gantt (standing) and Defensive Coordinator Dave Evans (seated). (Photo by T.J. Tijerina)
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Jan 22 2013
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Jan 22 2013
RIO HONDO, TX—Christopher Matthew Berg, 24, of Rio Hondo, TX went to be with the Lord on Saturday, January 19, 2013 in Rio Hondo, TX. Christopher is survived by his parents, Michael Stephen Berg and Susan Martin; a son, Joel Garcia Berg; a brother, Michael Stephen Berg II; a sister, Julie Marie Berg; nephews, Jude …
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Jan 19 2013
By DANIEL V. RODRIGUEZ Special to the NEWS City of San Benito officials met Saturday morning to evaluate the financial records of the Boys & Girls Club of San Benito and discuss measures to prevent its closure. Leading the effort was a five-member committee made up of City Manager Manuel Lara, Parks and Recreation Director …
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Jan 18 2013
HARLINGEN, TX—Patricia Lorraine Bowie Davis, beloved sister, mother, Nana, aunt, and friend joined the love of her life, parents, and the Lord on January 16, 2013. Nana was born to Charles and Leona White (Bobbie) Bowie in Harlingen, Texas. She grew up in San Benito where she was blessed to start a lifelong friendship with …
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Jan 18 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ & MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ San Benito News Shrouded in a veil of secrecy as murky as its signature black cloak, the identity of the owner of an oddly-placed 3-feet-high statue of the Santisima Muerte in the middle of the San Benito Municipal Cemetery has become somewhat of a mystery. On Thursday, two …
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