Mar 25 2022
By DAVID LOPEZ Special to the NEWS San Benito City Manager Manuel De La Rosa is currently a finalist for Weslaco City Manager. According to a recent news report, De La Rosa was one of five candidates (narrowed down from 13 applicants) for the Weslaco City Manager position for whom interviews began on March 8 …
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Mar 25 2022
By DAVID LOPEZ Special to the NEWS San Benito native and Registered Nurse Simon Fonseca, Jr. was recently honored at the University Hospital in San Antonio, where friends and family dedicated a bench in his memory. The funds were raised by friends and family and dedicated to the University Health Foundation Staff Resiliency Fund. Fonseca …
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Mar 25 2022
By RAY QUIROGA publisher@sbnewspaper.com Cameron County Pct. 3-1 Justice of the Peace, Jesus T. “Chuy” Garcia, Jr. knows who he is, what he does and does not like, and what we wants and does not want out of his career and life. A child of educators, Jesus Tomas Garcia, Sr. and Nora Belinda Garcia, who …
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Mar 25 2022
By PETE BANDA Special to the NEWS With just a handful of games remaining in the season, the San Benito Lady Greyhound Varsity Softball Team is currently sitting in fourth place in District 32-6A. While the team has been dominant at times, winning the last two games by a combined score of 26-3, a …
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Mar 25 2022
Special to the NEWS South Texas Independent School District (STISD) brought home two sets of state champions after competing for the first time in district history in the Texas Charter School Academic & Athletic League (TCSAAL) State Tennis Tournament held in Kyle, Texas, on March 5. Twenty-six students from the two STISD middle schools – …
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Mar 25 2022
By RENE TORRES Special to the NEWS The official game of baseball has been around since 1839 and any sport that has such a history also has a language of its own. Branch Rickey once said, “Baseball is a game of inches.” What did Rickey mean by this? Well, its definition is open-ended. There is …
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Mar 18 2022
By PETE BANDA Special to the NEWS When Charles Cortez was a high school athlete in San Benito, it was clear to him that the Valley was little more than an afterthought to most people in bigger Texas cities. While he always wanted to change that, it wasn’t until he took over one of the …
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Mar 18 2022
By PETE BANDA Special to the NEWS With well over a hundred people in attendance, opening ceremonies for the San Benito Youth Baseball and Softball league was an unquestioned success. The sudden cold front that hit Saturday morning didn’t make a dent in attendance as everyone from San Benito Mayor Ricardo Guerra to State Senator …
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Mar 18 2022
By RENE TORRES Special to the NEWS In 1934, Manuel King was 11-years-old, and a fifth grader in a Brownsville grammar school. It was said that the young King was born with a whip in his hand—the mastery of which he developed to grow up to become one of the youngest lion tamers in the …
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Mar 18 2022
Special to the NEWS In celebration of International Women’s Day on Tuesday, March 8, Texas State Technical College’s Advocacy and Resource Center hosted a webinar titled “Women in Technology” that showcased some of its current and former students in technical programs and nontraditional careers. The event featured Maria Lara Herrera, a TSTC Precision Machining Technology …
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