Feb 14 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Early voting for the 2014 Cameron County and State of Texas Primary Elections will begin on Tuesday, Feb. 18, and end Friday, Feb. 28. Polling locations for early voting will be at the San Benito Community Building, located at 210 E. Heywood St. in San Benito, the Los …
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Feb 14 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The upcoming races for the San Benito CISD and Cities of San Benito and Rio Hondo May general elections are becoming clearer as more candidates filed before the Feb. 28 deadline. As the deadline draws nearer, the incumbents for the San Benito municipal elections remain unopposed. Since the …
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Feb 14 2014
The San Benito “Anti-Selection Committee” Committee is a group of citizens formed to hold accountable the actions of San Benito CISD administrators during their search for a new head football coach and athletic director. And if you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re not fans of selection committees doing the job that the aforementioned administrators …
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Feb 12 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Former Cameron County District Attorney and 2012 Congressional candidate Armando R. Villalobos was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison on Tuesday, Feb. 11. U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen sentenced the former district attorney to 156 months in federal prison and three months of probation. He was …
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Feb 12 2014
By ARMANDO GARZA Special to the NEWS A year ago at this time, people knew the San Benito Lady ’Hounds were going to be special. And how special they were! Last season, the Lady ’Hounds made Valley sports history, becoming the first area team to reach the UIL state softball tournament. San Benito coasted to …
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Feb 12 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A woman and her eight children were recently forced to relocate to the Valley from Michigan due to some unfortunate events. According to Yvonne Mendez, Case Manager for the START (South Texas Adult Resource and Training) Center, the family, unfamiliar to the area, was in dire need of …
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Feb 07 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com If initial impressions are any indication, Champions Consulting appears to have gotten the proverbial ball rolling in the search for a new head football coach and athletic director in San Benito. It was on Monday, Feb. 3, that the San Benito CISD Board of Trustees approved, via a 4-3 …
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Feb 07 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Time is nearly up on San Benito CISD Interim Superintendent Dr. Ismael Cantu’s contract as the Board of Trustees must decide whether to keep his services while an investigation into the district’s suspended superintendent, Antonio G. Limón, remains ongoing. A regular meeting of the San Benito CISD Board …
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Feb 07 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Now there’s more. It has been a little over a week since Wednesday, Jan. 29, when candidates began filing for races in the San Benito CISD and Cities of San Benito and Rio Hondo May general elections, and though activity has been minimal, there have been additional hopefuls …
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Feb 12 2014
CONSIDER THIS: Chuy Aguilera and the Art of Lying
February 12, 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com I was out of the office Tuesday due to a bad case of food poisoning. Simply put, I thought I was going to vomit a lung. So there I was, lying in bed trying not to breathe because relentless puking had made me so sore that even so much …
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