Aug 20 2021
From Texas Parks and Wildlife Special to the PRESS September marks the start of dove season for almost 300,000 Texas hunters per year. After Winter Storm Uri hit the state in February, many hunters are wondering how the snowfall and below-freezing temperatures may have affected dove populations. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists report …
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Aug 20 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Port Isabel students can expect a little more from their school for the next few years. The Afterschool Centers on Education (ACE) has come back to PI-ISD, thanks to a competitive Department of Education grant the school district applied for and received. The ACE program provides after-school, extra curricular activities and …
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Aug 20 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Face masks are now required for all people inside Point Isabel ISD (PI-ISD) buildings, after a unanimous decision by the school board. The school district now has local control over COVID-19 protocols, in defiance of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s May executive order banning all mask mandates by government entities, including school …
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Aug 15 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Ana González has returned to her roots. González, who is teaching freshmen world geography at Port Isabel High School (PIHS) this year, her first year teaching, graduated from PIHS in 2017. She played on the soccer team, was in DECA, National Honor Society and the Junior Leadership Council before heading 400 …
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Aug 15 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com In a sobering press conference this past Monday, county health leaders pleaded with residents to get vaccinated for COVID-19, as younger people are being hospitalized with the Delta variant. Cameron County Health Authority Dr. James Castillo estimates at least 90% of new COVID-19 cases are Delta, a stark contrast to the …
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Aug 15 2021
By RENE TORRES Special to the PRESS/NEWS Golf has always been a popular sport in Brownsville and throughout the Rio Grande Valley. You can give credit to the soldiers at Fort Brown for bringing the game to town. The fort was established in 1846 with the beginning of the war with Mexico. With Zachary …
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Aug 09 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The lone suspect in a triple homicide on South Padre Island was arraigned Monday morning in the city’s court. Yordi Barthelemy, a 23-year-old man from Kerns, Texas, was arraigned on capital murder and assault family violence for the shooting deaths of a 46, 47 and 65-year-old woman this past Saturday, August …
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Aug 08 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Three women were found dead in a South Padre Island hotel last night after police responded to a disturbance call. Police responded to a family disturbance call at the Suites at Sunchase hotel, at 1004 Padre Blvd, around 10 p.m. on Saturday, August 8, night. There officers found three women, ages …
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Aug 06 2021
By M. Kathy Raines Special to the PARADE A bronzed cowbird is not a bad bird for depositing her eggs in the nest of an unwitting host, whose own brood often dies. No, the cowbird, like ourselves, does what it does to survive and prosper. An obligate brood parasite—like about 1% of bird species, including …
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Aug 06 2021
Photos and words by Gaige Davila Books, at least being able to buy them, have returned to the Laguna Madre area. Unruly Cactus, a bookstore and coffee bar, opened three weeks ago in the shadow of the Port Isabel Lighthouse, its home in the Fort Polk Commissary building, the last strip of businesses before driving …
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