Aug 26 2022
By DAVID LOPEZ Special to the NEWS A social media post has landed a group of San Benito CISD board members in controversy after they were shown being, “wined and dined” by Bob Treviño Insurance at Madeira Restaurant in Brownsville. The picture was posted by Board Secretary Oscar Medrano to his Facebook page the week …
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Aug 26 2022
Special to the NEWS According to a press release issued by the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District, on Thursday, August 18, 2022, Berta Cabaza Middle School campus administrators immediately contacted the San Benito CISD Police Department in response to a verbal report of a threatening message having been posted on social media. Following district …
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Aug 26 2022
By SANDRA TUMBERLINSON Special to the NEWS The San Benito Historical Society is urging the public to go online and sign the petition supporting San Benito native and country music superstar Freddy Fender’s induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. That petition can be found on change.org. Someday soon, with businesses in the Boca …
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Aug 26 2022
By SANDRA TUMBERLINSON Special to the NEWS When asked to photograph the “Corinth Girls” from Corinth Missionary Baptist Church of Harlingen performing for the residents of Golden Palms Retirement Center, this writer thought, “Well, how nice of the girls.” What this writer failed to realize until she arrived, was the significance of Sunday, August 21: …
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Aug 26 2022
By CHRISTINA SOSA Special to the NEWS Rio Grande Valley musician Pedro C. Saldana has got a song in his heart for San Benito. The singer-songwriter has been performing rock n’ roll, blues, and conjunto music since the tender age of 14 when a friend recruited him to sing in a band. Saldana said he’d …
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Aug 26 2022
By DAVID LOPEZ Special to the NEWS Last Thursday, San Benito CISD board members voted to name Theresa Servellon as the lone finalist for the SBCISD Superintendent of Schools position, which had been vacant since Dr. Nate Carman’s departure in early March. However, not all members were on board with the decision. Trustee Orlando Lopez, …
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Aug 19 2022
Special to the NEWS On Thursday (8-18-22) evening, the San Benito CISD Board of Trustees voted to name Theresa Servellon as the lone finalist to become San Benito CISD’s next Superintendent of Schools. “The lone finalist named exemplifies the qualities needed in our District. We sought someone with good moral character, student-focused and innovative leadership, …
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Aug 19 2022
Special to the NEWS According to a press release issued by the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District, on Thursday, August 18, 2022, Berta Cabaza Middle School campus administrators immediately contacted the San Benito CISD Police Department in response to a verbal report of a threatening message having been posted on social media. Following District …
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Aug 19 2022
By RENE TORRES The production of one of the better-known beers in the country (Budweiser) came to a complete stop when the national ban on sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol took place. “Prohibition,” was the dry movement implemented by the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. The ban was in place from 1920-1933. Anheuser-Busch …
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Aug 19 2022
Special to the NEWS/PRESS Researchers from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley recently collected invasive Australian Redclaw Crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) at the first known site in Texas. From January to February, three specimens were collected at an apartment complex pond that connects to a nearby resaca in the Brownsville area. An earlier 2013 sighting …
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