Jul 24 2012
By MONICA ZUÑIGA Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com For as long as she can remember, Dolly Martinez Barrera recalls receiving a phone call every year from the staff at Dolly Vinsant Memorial Hospital in San Benito. Barrera was asked to don an Army Air Corps uniform similar to the one worn by Wilma “Dolly” Vinsant, the wartime …
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Jul 24 2012
By MONICA ZUÑIGA Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A Brownsville man turned himself in to San Benito police on Monday for allegedly forging over $20,000 in checks. Det. Rogelio Banda, Jr. of the San Benito Police Department said Ramiro H. Chavez of Brownsville was wanted by the city’s justice court on six counts of forgery. The 44-year-old …
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Jul 24 2012
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com A San Benito police officer remains on paid leave pending the outcome of a Civil Service Commission meeting Wednesday, when officials will discuss a substance reportedly flagged during a drug test that has brought the officer’s fitness into question. Arturo Rodriguez, assistant city manager for the City of San …
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Jul 24 2012
By MONICA ZUÑIGA Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com City of San Benito officials said Monday that a letter recently mailed to citizens misinformed the public of water samples containing bacteria. In the letter, the city’s water department informed customers of an MCL coliform violation, stating, “Two water samples during June 2012 contained coliform bacteria.” It’s bacteria that …
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Jul 24 2012
By MONICA ZUÑIGA Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The City of San Benito acquired a new generator for its annex building thanks to a grant awarded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. According to Al Wasielewski, the emergency management coordinator who helped secure the FEMA grant, officials plan to use the annex building as the emergency operation …
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Jul 24 2012
By MONICA ZUÑIGA Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A shift in taxes is necessary in efforts to continue to “stretch pennies” and avoid cuts, at least that’s according to officials with the Rio Hondo Independent School District. However, and according to RHISD Superintendent Anneliese McMinn, the district does not plan to raise taxes despite calling a tax …
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Jul 24 2012
By MONICA ZUÑIGA Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Who knew that while being treated for cancer, San Benito resident Joel Pequeño would ironically discover his career path. Now an MD Anderson radiation therapist, Pequeño assists patients every day that are enduring what he endured several years ago. In 2004, Pequeño visited the doctor and found that he …
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Jul 24 2012
By JOE BOCANEGRA Special to the NEWS Members of the San Benito Friends of the Library made sure that all the children who attended the nonprofit organization’s Back to School Celebration on Thursday went home with a backpack… free of charge. “We had a wonderful time,” said Friends of the Library President Roberta Schoenmakers. “The …
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Jul 24 2012
Carmen Torres Gonzales, 89, of San Benito, Texas went home to be with the Lord, on Tuesday, July 23, 2012. Carmen was born in San Benito, Texas on November 3, 1922. She spent most of her life in San Benito, where she met her late husband Antonio Gonzales, married and had nine children. Carmen lived …
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Jul 24 2012
Members of the group Save Dolly are shown Thursday outside Dolly Vinsant Memorial Hospital in San Benito, where they were proudly displaying a banner that was donated by MJ Screen Printing and promotes the group’s cause. The banner was hung from the hospital’s entrance the following day. (Staff photo by Michael Rodriguez)
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