Jun 26 2012
Editor’s Note: The following was published in the Sept. 21, 1967, edition of the San Benito News. The article covered the aftermath of Hurricane Beulah, the most disastrous storm in the Rio Grande Valley’s history. By EDWIN HARVEY San Benito News Hurricane Beulah was blowing itself out Thursday as it headed across land. Shortly before …
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Jun 26 2012
By JERRY RODRIGUEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Some call Al Wasielewski a walking, talking encyclopedia of emergency management. They’re right. Grant writer, ham radio operation and emergency management coordinator are just some of the titles that Wasielewski, 62, has held over the years. A ham radio operator for nearly 50 years, Wasielewski has long maintained that …
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Jun 22 2012
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Officials with the City of San Benito responded this week to criticisms made by Guadalupe Ayala, a veteran police officer and cancer survivor who fears his job may be in jeopardy should doctors not clear him for duty. On Tuesday, the San Benito Civil Service Commission provided Ayala 30 …
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Jun 22 2012
By ANDREA MOSQUEDA Special to the NEWS A San Benito guitarist’s talent has won him a spot in the “Battle of the Blues” district finals in Houston. The “Battle of the Blues” is a competition that consists of three stages, all hosted and held by the Guitar Center store in Brownsville. In each of the …
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Jun 22 2012
By COLE AVERY San Benito News A low pressure weather system swirling near the Gulf is expected to become a tropical depression by the end of the weekend, according to meteorologists at the Brownsville station of the National Weather Service. The weather system, currently near the Yucatan Peninsula, has a 70 percent likelihood of becoming …
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Jun 22 2012
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ & JERRY RODRIGUEZ San Benito News Following the lead of local residents’ efforts, city and state officials have pledged their support – albeit through various capacities – to help restore the aging Dolly Vinsant Memorial Hospital. Namely, Mayor Joe H. Hernandez and State Representative Eddie Lucio III said on Friday that they’d …
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Jun 22 2012
By JERRY RODRIGUEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com One of two men accused of committing a robbery at a local convenience store in April has been apprehended. Christopher Vallejo Gamez, 23, of San Benito was arrested on June 15 by the San Juan Police Department and later transported to the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Department, where he was …
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Jun 22 2012
By EDWINA P. GARZA Special to the NEWS The national waiting time for a kidney is estimated over 1,200 days, according to new statistics. In the Rio Grande Valley, where the need for kidneys is about 91 percent of the organs needed, that wait could be even longer. Among those on the list is Victor …
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Jun 19 2012
NEWS Staff Report The San Benito City Commission voted to replace the plaque at the Veterans War Memorial with a new marker recognizing Joe H. Hernandez as mayor instead of Jack Garcia. It was in September 2011 when Hernandez’s request for a plaque replacement was not approved. Hernandez argued then that he had wanted the …
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Jun 19 2012
By JOE BOCANEGRA Special to the NEWS A veteran San Benito police officer currently in remission after suffering a long, arduous battle with stage IV colon cancer now faces a new challenge: keeping his job. The San Benito Civil Service Commission unanimously voted to allow Officer Guadalupe Ayala, a 20-year veteran of the San Benito …
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