Aug 11 2016
By PETE BANDA Managing editor Editor@sbnewspaper.com During the first week of May, the San Benito Housing Authority fired then Executive Director Tony Hasbargen “without cause.” The decision came a little more than a year after initially hiring the Illinois native to a multi-year contract. Just one month later, on June 13, the housing authority offered …
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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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Feb 13 2015
By JACOB LOPEZ Editor Editor@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito Public Housing Authority has received a letter requesting an investigation. The letter – dated Feb. 4, 2014 –was obtained by the News via the Freedom of Information Act. It questions the process of awarding the contract for Stone Village Housing, which broke ground in October 2014. The letter, …
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Aug 19 2014
By ANGELICA CHAVEZ Special to the NEWS It was on July 22 when the San Benito News broke the story about individuals 25 years old and younger being suspected in 64.96 percent of crimes reported by the San Benito Police Department. Since then, local residents have raised concerns regarding this statistic, which was calculated from 836 …
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Apr 09 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito Housing Authority has decided to purchase the historic Stonewall Jackson Hotel building following weeks of testing to determine the physical status of the building, an SBHA official confirmed Tuesday. According to SBHA Executive Director Arnold Padilla, the decision to purchase the building was made in …
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Apr 05 2013
By JOE BOCANEGRA Special to the NEWS San Benito City Commissioners approved a resolution the San Benito Housing Authority has proposed to tackle extreme poverty. The resolution, 2013-8, was approved during Tuesday night’s regular commission meeting and aims to give aid to citizens with “extremely” low incomes, according to San Benito Housing Authority Executive Director …
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Mar 29 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Much has been affected by the sequestration in recent weeks, the San Benito Housing Authority included. The federal sequester is approximately $85 billion in cuts of government agencies over a span of seven months, this after a compromise on deficit reduction could not be achieved by Republicans and …
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Mar 26 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The Housing Authority of the City of San Benito may soon decide whether it’ll purchase the now defunct Stonewall Jackson. “We are still doing some final reviews,” said Arnold Padilla, Housing Authority executive director. “We’re waiting on some test results, but everything seems to be coming back fairly …
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