Dec 05 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com By the time you read this, I will be gone. Friday, Dec. 5 marked my last day at the San Benito News, and although I’m saddened to say farewell, I’m optimistic for this publication’s future. I leave you in the capable hands of Jacob Lopez, my staff writer and …
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Dec 05 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Kay: They’re beautiful, aren’t they? Stars. I mean, I never look at them anymore, but they actually are quite, uh…beautiful. Jay: Uh…Kay, you’re frightening your partner. Kay: I haven’t been training a partner. I’ve been training a replacement. Jay: Wait a minute, Kay. I cannot do this job by myself. …
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Dec 05 2014
By PASTOR MARK MOLINA Living Waters Church Special to the NEWS Forty years have passed since Moses fled Egypt as a fugitive from Pharaoh’s justice, after killing and trying to hide the body of an Egyptian soldier. He is a married man now, a father and shepherd to the flocks of sheep of the …
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Dec 02 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com San Benito CISD officials have recently pointed to early January as the starting date, more or less, for Dr. Marc A. Puig to take over as superintendent of schools. Arnold Padilla, president of the SBCISD Board of Trustees, confirmed on Friday that Puig will be tendering his resignation at …
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Dec 02 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS December may just be the month that San Benito City Officials decide the fate of the San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum, said Rey Avila, founder of the Texas Conjunto Hall of fame and Museum, with regard to an upcoming meeting of the San Benito City Commission …
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Dec 02 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS For the first time in almost two decades, San Benitians will not have the option of competing in what was once the annual Pride Lights Festival, the opportunity for home owners and business owners to vie to decorate in the most elaborate or beautiful fashion, with the …
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Dec 02 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS It’s an exciting time for the illustrious City of San Benito, with talk of possible ResacaWalk groundbreaking to occur as soon as early 2015. The EDC, with the help of San Benito city officials, has been long-planning the erection of a promenade, anticipated to incorporate a boardwalk along …
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Dec 02 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS There will be tamales for everyone at the sixth annual San Benito News “Best Tamales in Town” Contest! Well, there will at least be enough for our distinguished panel of judges, one of whom is none other than Frutoso “Fruty” Gomez Jr., Chief Appraiser for the Cameron …
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Nov 28 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Plans may soon change for the San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum, an amenity that local officials hoped would serve as the future home of the Freddy Fender Museum, the San Benito History Museum and the Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Originally, City of San Benito officials …
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Nov 28 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com RIO HONDO – The City of Rio Hondo is closer to deciding the local police department’s new chief. Mayor Gus Olivares said on Wednesday that the City Commission interviewed the top three applicants selected by the administration from a pool of about 10 or 12 candidates. “We did some …
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