Tag: San Benito High School

Lady ’Hounds’ Banuelos to play college ball in Oklahoma

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com For Cejay Banuelos, playing college basketball has long been a dream. As of Thursday, her dream became reality when she signed to play basketball at Bacone University in Muskogee, Oklahoma. “It’s pretty amazing,” Banuelos said inside the San Benito High School varsity gymnasium on Thursday after inking a …

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Obregon makes more principal changes

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Even more reassignments of school district principal positions were announced Monday, making the personnel move the fourth time in which campuses have undergone leadership changes. The latest principal assignments have been finalized by the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District for the 2013- 2014 school year, according to …

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Board approves principal changes

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com School district positions they are a-changin’. At a special meeting of the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees on Thursday, a number of principal resignations and reassignments were approved in anticipation of the 2013-2014 school year. Want the whole story? Pick up a copy of …

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Kuhn scores gold at Taekwondo National Championships

By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com The next time San Benito High School students step into Thomas Kuhn’s AP chemistry class, they’ll be in the presence of a national taekwondo gold medalist. A green belt competitor in Korean martial arts, the 65-year-old Kuhn defeated the odds by winning the gold medal in sparring and the …

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22 teachers hired; principal reassignments expected

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A total of 22 secondary teachers were hired at a special meeting of the San Benito CISD Board of Trustees on Tuesday, July 2, but more personnel changes may still be in the district’s future. Interim Superintendent Alfonso Obregón discussed the possibility of there being one or two …

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GONE AT 17: SBHS student struck, killed by pickup truck

By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com An incoming San Benito High School senior was killed Thursday after being struck by a pickup truck near the Heavin Resaca Trail. Detective Rogelio Banda Jr. of the San Benito Police Department said the teen, 17-year-old Emelia “Emily” Martinez, was hit by the vehicle near the vicinity of Robertson …

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SBCISD trustees to mull more job changes

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Expect more changes in personnel at the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District. But as of Thursday, two vacant principal positions were filled. It only took the San Benito CISD Board of Trustees approximately an hour and a half of closed session discussion at a June 27 special …

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Board to decide teacher, principal assignments Thursday

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito High School principal vacancy may be filled this week. A special meeting of the San Benito CISD Board of Trustees is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at the John F. Barron Administration Building Board Room. On the agenda for that meeting are only …

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Graduation debacle prompts gym expansion talks

By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com There were many lessons to be learned from Friday evening’s San Benito High School Graduation Ceremony debacle, but officials may revisit a past concern in an effort to prevent another “chaotic” situation from occurring. The ceremony was originally scheduled for 8 p.m. on June 7 at Bobby Morrow Stadium, …

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Teachers create scholarship in grandmother’s name

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Two granddaughters in the field of education have found the perfect way to honor their late grandmother…By creating a scholarship in her name. Sandra Ruiz, a Higher Education Coordinator at San Benito High School, and her sister Jacklyn Chirinos, who teaches Business courses with the Career and Technology …

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