December 31, 2012 archive

High school senior dies in shooting accident

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com LAS YESCAS – Tragedy has struck a small community here after a Rio Hondo High School senior was killed over the weekend. Michael Swartz of Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen confirmed that 18-year-old Ricky Ramos, Jr. died Sunday, December 30. Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio said early …

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TOP 5 STORIES OF 2012: SBHS band’s state run, mayor’s indictment make list

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com No one, not even the Mayans could have predicted the type of year 2012 turned out to be for San Benito. Regardless, the following are the top five stories of 2012 that shook the community of San Benito, as per newspaper sales, website hits and feedback from readers. …

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Workshop planned to discuss city’s future

By JOE BOCANEGRA Special to the NEWS San Benito’s plans for 2013 are currently under abeyance as the commissioners and the administration plan for a workshop to discuss what those plans are, officials said. The workshop, according to City Manager Manuel Lara, will focus on several things. “We have our internal goals,” Lara said. “We …

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Super cites ‘student achievement’ as main goal

By JOE BOCANEGRA Special to the NEWS “Student achievement, student achievement, student achievement – that is our number one goal.” So says San Benito CISD Superintendent of Schools Antonio G. Limón in regards to the district’s upcoming goals for 2013. “We’re working very hard and diligently with the staff and with Celeste Sanchez (Assistant Superintendent …

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Ramiro Becerra Sr.

Ramiro Becerra Sr., 95, of San Benito, Texas, entered into eternal rest on Saturday, December 29, 2012 at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen. Ramiro was born on December 13, 1917 in Linares, Nuevo Leon, Mexico to his parents Jose Roberto Becerra and Margarita De La Cerda. He came to Driscoll, Texas at the age …

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Martha Booth Gause

SAN BENITO–Martha Booth Gause, 95, passed away on December 30, 2012 at Golden Palms Retirement & Health Center in Harlingen. Gause was born in Henry County, Tennessee on August 20, 1917 to V.V. and Era Mar Rouron. The family moved to Monroe, Louisiana in 1924. She graduated from Ouachita Parish High School in Monroe in …

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