December 7, 2012 archive

Lady Hounds dispatch PSJA Memorial, 46-29

Hounds

By ANDREA MOSQUEDA Special to the NEWS The confident expressions on the faces of the San Benito Lady Hounds varsity basketball team Friday should have been PSJA Memorial’s first indication that they were in store for a long night. The Wolverines took the first shot and the lead after the tip-off, but the Lady Hounds …

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CONSIDER THIS: How We Thrive Despite It All

Michael Rodriguez

By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com I apologize if you have grown tired of looking at my ugly mug these last three editions. This was not my intention, I assure you. While I realize there was one other week, and I believe it was recently, in which “Consider This” was published in three consecutive issues, …

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HEATHER HOPES: Trouble and a Soldier, Part II

Heather Cathleen Cox

By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com  This week’s Heather Hopes is a continuation of last week’s. If you haven’t read the first installment, please be invited to visit sbnewspaper.com. Just type in the keyword: Trouble and a Soldier. For everyone else… In the cold, sterile atmosphere of the Breckenridge Hospital emergency room, my phone …

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WEB EXCLUSIVE: SBCISD security guards concerned with pay

SBCISD

By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com  There has been a freeze placed on up to 10 full-time San Benito Consolidated Independent School District security guard positions, said SBCISD Superintendent of Schools Antonio G. Limón on Thursday. To some SBCISD security guards with tenure of five to 10 plus years, this poses a significant concern. …

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City manager on agenda

Manuel Lara

By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com  San Benito Mayor Joe H. Hernandez has called for a special meeting to evaluate City Manager Manuel Lara. The meeting’s agenda denotes the commission will retire into executive session to discuss item #2, which states: “Executive Session: Under Texas Government Code Section 551.074 to deliberate the appointment, employment, …

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NEXT MOVE: Cigarroa talks UT merger at town hall meeting

By JOE BOCANEGRA Special to the NEWS BROWNSVILLE – Friday, the University of Texas System Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa and the UT System Board of Regents Chairman Gene Powell, along with UT Brownsville President Juliet V. García, held a town hall meeting to discuss the planned merger of UT-Pan American in Edinburg, UTB, and the …

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Bust nets 300 pounds of marijuana

Francisco Martinez-Alonso

NEWS Staff Report LA PALOMA – San Benito police, assisting the United States Border Patrol regarding a family out of Matamoros, Mexico, helped in the seizure of almost 300 pounds of marijuana over a border wall near the La Paloma area on Wednesday, December 5. At approximately 1:38 a.m., officers with the San Benito Police …

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Cruz to lend her knowledge as tamale contest judge

Anna Cruz

By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com At the age of 55, Anna Cruz, vice president of the San Benito CISD Board of Trustees, has made a name for herself as a sharp and resourceful woman whose acute observational competence allows little to escape her. Well, except for that one time. When she was 5, or …

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California woman finds family in San Benito

By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com  “We are so very thankful,” said Marta Petra Hinojosa, who was recently reunited with two family members whom she had not seen or spoken to in over two decades. “Thank God for the San Benito News. Two of my cousins, the only ones we have there in San …

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Copper retires from SBPD K-9 unit

By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com  The San Benito Police Department, on Friday, November 30, announced the retirement of their K-9 officer, “Copper,” who had been with the force for 10 years. Copper assisted the department as well as other law enforcement agencies in numerous drug operations, said Internal Affairs Detective Rogelio Banda, Jr. …

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