Jul 18 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com HARLINGEN – Abel Fonseca has come a long way. The owner of Soccer House and Spartans Boxing Academy of Harlingen, Fonseca, who hails from San Benito, where he began boxing at age seven, attributes his early fascination with boxing to his grandfather, Pete Treviño. “He got me into …
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Jul 18 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Design plans for the San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum, which will front the ResacaWalk site along Business 77 and the resaca, have gone back to the drawing board after the San Benito City Commission this week opted to table the item. Two Museum designs presented to the Commission at …
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Jul 18 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Plenty can happen in a week. Since my last entry, officials from the City of Rio Hondo have been more forthcoming concerning Place 5 Commissioner Joseph “Joe” Lopez’ domestic violence charge. City Administrator Ben Medina went from scolding a News reporter for inquiring about the matter to not just …
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Jul 18 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@portisabelsouthpadre.com When asked by my high school career counselor what I wanted to do with my life, I said, “I want to leave the Valley.” What I really meant was I wanted to be free. Free from the constraints of academia, of my parents, of religion, of all the …
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Jul 18 2014
By PASTOR MARK MOLINA Living Waters Church I believe most Christians would agree that Christian freedom equals spiritual freedom. If this statement is true, then why are we not free? “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent …
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Jul 15 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito Consolidated Independent Board of Trustees on Tuesday, July 15, discussed updating Policy DC (Local) and Policy CH (Local) to reinstate powers stripped of Superintendent of Schools Antonio G. Limón in November 2012. The matter was presented by members of the Board’s Policy Committee. School Board …
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Jul 15 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com One item that was up for discussion at Tuesday’s meeting of the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees was a request to approve the Optional Flexible School Day Program (OFSDP). According to SBCISD Planner/Evaluator Ruben Franco, each year the district must reapply for OFSDP in …
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Jul 15 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com RIO HONDO – District Court Judge Ben Euresti has appointed Edmund Cyganiewicz of Brownsville to be attorney pro-tem in the Cameron County District Attorney’s domestic violence case against longtime Rio Hondo City Commissioner Joseph “Joe” Lopez. Cyganiewicz plans to begin work on his case by contacting the alleged …
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Jul 15 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The Cameron County District Attorney’s Office confirmed on Monday that investigators have yet to close nearly 20 cases of arson in Rio Hondo, some of which date back to January 2014. The arresting agency, the Cameron County Fire Marshal’s Office, has thus far apprehended Richard Guajardo, Daniel Davis, …
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Jul 11 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com RIO HONDO – City of Rio Hondo officials, police and legal counsel remain mum with regard to specific details on a July 7 incident involving former Cameron County District Attorney’s Office investigator and long-time Place 5 City Commissioner Joseph “Joe” Lopez, who faces domestic violence allegations. Specifically, Lopez …
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