Sep 11 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com “It still hasn’t hit me,” said 16-year-old Nathan (Nate) Mireles about his role in securing a victory for the San Benito Greyhounds over the Harlingen Cardinals in Friday’s 83rd Annual Battle of the Arroyo. Humble, maybe, but Mireles, who started playing football at age five is proving to …
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Sep 11 2012
By JOE BOCANEGRA Special to the NEWS Monday, the San Benito CISD Board Trustees voted to approve a proposal on the district’s stop loss insurance with an added provision to speak to ING Employee Benefits and to discuss removing Bob Treviño Insurance as the stop loss agent. The original proposal was to move the insurance …
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Sep 11 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com “Edward Ogdee had a quality, an intangible quality all of us wish we had,” and according to his son, Ronald Ogdee, “it’s called charisma.” Of his father who passed away at the age of 91 on Saturday, Ron Ogdee said, “He was such a charismatic person, he could …
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Sep 11 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com What does San Benito have that almost no one else has? Besides Greyhound pride and an enthusiastic community spirit, as of Friday, September 7, San Benito has the first Walgreens wellness store in the area. “There are three [Walgreens] stores like this in the state: one in Houston, …
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Sep 11 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Save Dolly (SD) volunteers are fighting to avoid a stalemate in their quest to obtain access into the forlorn Dolly Vinsant Memorial Hospital, and it appears the last move may be up to attorneys from the offices of Linebarger, Goggan, Blair and Sampson. As SD Founder and Rotarian …
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Sep 11 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Fifty-three women and men who previously passed a preliminary, written exam were invited on Friday, September 7, to the second wave of the San Benito Police Department’s search for entry level police officers. Of the 53, 30 showed up. According to Assistant Chief of Operations Michael Galvan, the …
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Sep 08 2012
By PETE BANDA Special to the NEWS What some expected to be a shootout between two high potent and explosive offenses ended up being a defensive war for the ages as the San Benito defeated the Harlingen Cardinals, 7-3, to take back the Battle of the Arroyo trophy. While many were picking Harlingen to bounce …
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Sep 08 2012
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com No fire extinguishers, a partially blocked fire escape and a cracked ceiling and overhead beams are just some of the building and fire code violations reported at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel in San Benito. Such violations were detailed in inspection reports that the City of San Benito released to …
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Sep 08 2012
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com In a four-year span ranging from 2006-2010, the US Census Bureau reported that the percentage of San Benito residents living below the poverty level was at a staggering 33.4 percent, which is nearly double the state average of 16.8. And while the affects of a recovering – albeit slow …
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Sep 08 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com City of San Benito officials spoke candidly Wednesday in attempts to justify a proposed property tax increase levied for the purposes of funding street repairs. On Tuesday, September 4, the San Benito City Commission met and addressed Ordinance No. 2489, an ordinance levying a tax rate, which if …
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