Apr 01 2015
By PETE BANDA Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The search for two local teens, who had been deemed runaways, has come to an end in similar fashion. Alizza Cruz and Lesly Kimberly Marquez, both 16-years-old, were found safe by law enforcement officials after almost a week of searching. Cruz, who had reportedly ran away from the Sunny …
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Mar 28 2015
In this teaching series we have seen that there are character attributes we must possess before we will be entrusted with a divine assignment. It is neither what man thinks of us nor what we think about ourselves. It is what God Himself knows to be true about who we really are. We must have …
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Mar 27 2015
By Pete Banda Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Two local teens have been reported as runaways/welfare concerns this week by local authorities. According to two separate press releases, Lesly Kymberly Marquez, a 16-year-old Los Fresnos High school student and Alizza Cruz, a 16-year-old mother from Hidalgo County have been missing since Sunday, March 22nd and Wednesday, March …
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Mar 27 2015
By Pete Banda Staff Writer Reporter@sbnewspaper.com As children from Angela Gerusa Leal Elementary school in San Benito eagerly waited in line for their …
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Mar 27 2015
By Pete Banda Staff Writer Reporter@sbnewspaper.com As the sun slowly starts to reemerge from the lingering clouds, warming up the residents of San Benito, the topic of finding a way to cool off will undoubtedly arise to the surface of most conversations. But while the municipal swimming pool would most likely be the usual response in …
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Mar 27 2015
By Pete Banda Staff Writer Reporter@sbnewspaper.com Drones, robots, and gadgets were on full display for students Wednesday, making the San Benito High school gym look like the set to a new sci-fi movie. The presentation was for the first annual Gear-Up Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) day, showing students the different aspects and opportunities of …
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Mar 25 2015
By ARMANDO GARZA Special to the NEWS HARLINGEN — Every so often, someone has to step up. Someone has to come through with a play. And in a 2-0 ballgame on Tuesday night on the road, San Benito’s Mel Gonzalez did exactly that. In the top of the 7th inning, Gonzalez took an 0-2 pitch …
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Mar 25 2015
By Armando Garza Special to the NEWS BROWNSVILLE — It’s often said there are no moral victories in sports. And the San Benito Greyhounds are certainly not happy with their 2-1 loss to Brownsville Veterans Memorial on Tuesday night. However, there is something to be said for going toe-to-toe with one of the teams pegged …
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Mar 25 2015
By PETE BANDA Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Maybe it’s something in the resaca. Whatever it is, the high school powerlifting squads down here in the lower valley are destroying competition up state. And the Girls Varsity teams at Los Fresnos and San Benito High School are no exception. Both teams traveled to the 6A State Championship …
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Mar 25 2015
By PETE BANDA Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com After going several months without an executive director of housing following the resignation of Arnold Padilla, the San Benito Public Housing Authority (SBPHA) Board of Directors named their new successor this past Monday with the hiring of Tony Hasbargen. Hasbargen, who came from Illinois where he held a similar …
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