Jun 10 2014
By MATHEW ZUÑIGA Special to the NEWS The San Benito Consolidated Independent School District held its annual Employee Awards Assembly at San Benito Veterans Memorial Academy Gymnasium Friday, June 6. Teachers and staff members were on hand to receive awards and applaud others. In the district’s Teachers of the Year recognitions, 19 educators – one from …
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Jun 06 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Hector B. De La Garza said it best on Friday night: “It’s one small step for mankind but one giant leap for the rest of us.” De La Garza, 17, was referring to the San Benito High School Class of 2014 graduation ceremony representing more than an annual affair …
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Jun 06 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com San Benito CISD Superintendent of Schools Antonio G. Limón is back on the job after over a year of being on paid suspension. On Thursday afternoon, the San Benito News caught up with Limón as he worked through stacks of paperwork in the conference room of the John …
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Jun 06 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The 2014 STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) performance results for the San Benito CISD have been released. As a district, SBCISD scored 67 in Reading, 71 in Math, 70 in Writing, 76 in Science and 62 in Social Studies. The results for the state of …
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Jun 06 2014
By MATHEW ZUÑIGA Special to the NEWS RIO HONDO – Officials with the Rio Hondo Independent School District plan on acquiring a $1 million loan to compensate employees, this after Superintendent Ismael Garcia said cuts were made to accommodate rising expenses. Garcia identified two factors that he said led officials to propose a loan necessary …
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Jun 06 2014
Special to the NEWS The San Benito Economic Development Corporation will hold a town hall meeting on Thursday, June 12 at the San Benito Municipal Building, where plans to design a site master plan for ResacaWalk will be discussed. On December 2013, the EDC purchased the 9.8-acre property on Business 77 and the Resaca across …
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Jun 06 2014
NEWS Staff Report Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection conducted a raid at what the CBP reported was a stash house in San Benito on Friday afternoon. The incident occurred in the vicinity of Melamar Street, located off of Iowa Gardens Road. CBP Public Affairs Officer Joe Gutierrez Jr. confirmed that the agents raided …
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Jun 06 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com They’ve been battling for stardom since they first moved to Austin eight years ago. Since then, Vinyl Dharma, a talented indie-rock band with ties to San Benito and Brownsville, have been making huge waves around the local music scene including a more recent online competition for the X …
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Jun 06 2014
By CECILIA GONZALES Special to the NEWS One can tell that Nadya J. Moreno is passionate for playing guitar, as she not only owns four of her own, but made history as the first female freshman in San Benito CISD’s history to earn a division 1 rating on guitar, enabling her to travel to the state …
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Jun 06 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Eighteen-year-old Liliana Polanco lost her class ring earlier this year; it was a dainty piece of jewelry that usually adorned her left ring finger, where she planned for it to remain as a keepsake that would serve to remind her of life at San Benito High School. The SBHS …
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