October 26, 2012 archive

CONSIDER THIS: A Real Haunting in San Benito

Michael Rodriguez

By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com In the pitch-black darkness of my bedroom, the clock striking midnight and my wife out cold beside me, I struggled Friday to prepare that which I’ve dreaded all week: writing this article. You see, I had initially intended to write a timely, albeit charming tale involving my many escapades …

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HEATHER HOPES: Halloween Costume Fail – Creepy Dudes

Heather Cathleen Cox

By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com  We’ve all seen him at a nice restaurant and at a not-so-nice restaurant. He’s at the airport. He’s at the mechanic’s shop or lurking the aisles at your local grocer. He can be found behind a big fancy desk or even driving his Mama’s 1999 Ford Focus. It’s …

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Hotel owner must appear before judge Monday

Stonewall Jackson

By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Benita Jackson has lived at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel for as long as she can remember, but it wasn’t until she moved recently that the 65-year-old San Benito resident claimed to realize the poor living conditions to which she had been subjected. “Thank God I’m out of there,” Jackson …

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Alleged victim in arrest of JP’s wife speaks

Delia Flores Sanchez

By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com  “Get out of my face, old lady,” is allegedly what 62-year-old Delia Flores Sanchez, wife of Justice of the Peace Julian Sanchez, heard after confronting 45-year-old Elizabeth Moreno Lopez at the Cameron County Annex Building in San Benito. The incident eventually led to the arrest of Delia Sanchez, …

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GRIDIRON GIRL – Guevara changes perceptions as female football player

Angela Guevara

By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Although life hasn’t changed for Angela Guevara, what the 13-year-old Riverside Middle School student is changing are people’s perceptions about her. On Saturday, Angela will be playing her eighth game as a football player for the Riverside Bulldogs. The seventh grade team, for which Angela plays wide receiver, will …

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DPS official trains SBPD officers

police

By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com  Officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety sent Clif Harris, trainer III for the Texas Crime Information Center/National Crime Information Center, to San Benito this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to teach ground-breaking information to the local police department. Harris instructed a class entitled, “Texas Law Enforcement Telecommunication …

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SBHS band to compete at Area

SBHS drumline at Pigskin

By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com  The Mighty Greyhound Band will be traveling to Laredo, Texas for the area marching band competition on Saturday, October 27, or the precursor to the state competition. There are 42 bands competing at this, the Area G, tournament which encompasses all of South Texas, from the Valley to …

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Hooked on Hounds – Peter Galvan

Peter Galvan

By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com There are certain things you just don’t mess with. You don’t mess with Texas; you don’t mess with a man’s motorcycle, and you definitely don’t mess with the Greyhounds. Sixty-one year-old Peter Galvan, a 1970 graduate of San Benito High School, is well aware of these fundamental rules which …

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’Hounds explode in 52-0 rout of PSJA

Arturo Coronado

By PETE BANDA Special to the NEWS PHARR – It was as if all the frustration of a squandered season came pouring out in one game for the San Benito Greyhounds on Thursday night. The ’Hounds nearly broke their side of the scoreboard at PSJA Stadium as they bombed the Bears by a score of …

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Ladies in tiebreaker matchup with Weslaco

Hounds

By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com  San Benito’s Lady Greyhound varsity volleyball team will be playing a tiebreaker game against Weslaco tomorrow at 5 p.m. at the SBHS gymnasium. Both teams have triumphed and struggled all year and are currently tied in District 31-5A at 7 wins to 9 losses, each for the season. …

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