Sep 08 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com If approved at next Tuesday’s meeting of the San Benito City Commission, the 2012-2013 budget could include a $28,000 hike in expenditures for the code enforcement department. The approved 2011-2012 budget did not allow for overtime hours, whereas this year’s budget proactively insinuates the need of a $5,000 …
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Sep 08 2012
By JOE BOCANEGRA Special to the NEWS During Tuesday’s regular San Benito City Commission meeting, commissioners unanimously denied to reinstate Sandra Tumberlinson to the Veterans Advisory Board and to remove Guadalupe Ayala’s Place 3 appointment. The decision happened after commissioners deliberated in executive session for half an hour. Although Mayor Joe H. Hernandez made the …
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Sep 05 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com City officials recently contemplated closing the historic Stonewall Jackson Hotel due to unspecified code violations. The San Benito Fire Department, City of San Benito Code Enforcement as well as Assistant City Manager Arturo Rodriguez are investigating what’s being reported as a number of code violations at Stonewall Jackson …
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Sep 04 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A battle is waged, and more than victory is at stake. This is personal. Tuesday marked the first day of ticket sales for the 83rd Annual Battle of the Arroyo, the grudge match between the long-time rivals San Benito Greyhounds and Harlingen Cardinals, which will be played at …
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Sep 04 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A San Benito woman could be behind bars for a long time after allegedly running over her common law husband twice with a Chevrolet Equinox. On Sunday, September 2, San Benito Police Department officers on patrol in response to a call of a possible disturbance at a residence …
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Sep 04 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The mosquito population in San Benito hasn’t been out of control, at least that’s according to city officials who said on Monday that they’ve yet to receive complaints from the public. “We haven’t had a single [mosquito] complaint since February,” said San Benito Code Enforcement Director John Rodriguez. …
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Sep 04 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Is San Benito being pulled into the new Millennium? With proposed Information Technology expenditures up from 2011-2012’s approved $334,572 to this year’s $483,542, it appears that strides are being made for the direction of the future. For those San Benitians whose best subject is not math, that’s a …
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Sep 01 2012
By HEATHER C. COX & MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ San Benito News As new developments in the insurance debacle plaguing San Benito CISD and its Board of Trustees continue to emerge, elected officials involved, directly or otherwise, are beginning to come forward with additional information; this after months of silence. When the San Benito News – via …
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Sep 01 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Has the purpose for which Labor Day was designed been lost due to the present economic crises? The News hit the streets to find out what the public believes. Being that one San Benitian, when approached by this reporter, hadn’t even heard of Labor Day, let’s start at …
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Sep 01 2012
By HEATHER C. COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The expression ‘slower than molasses in January’ might be the best way to summarize Save Dolly’s progress since last reported. Though San Benito Rotarian efforts to refurbish the once proud facility – better known to San Benitians as Dolly Vinsant Memorial Hospital – are presently at a stand-still, …
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