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 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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