Aug 06 2021
By NAYELLI QUIROGA Special to the PRESS The Laguna Madre Water District held a regular meeting on July 28. LMWD General Manager, Carlos Jaime Galvan Jr., reviewed the reservoir levels which were about the same as in the report prior, which is at 39.6 ft. He also discussed the Summer Picnic. The Summer Picnic’s main …
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Aug 06 2021
By RAY QUIROGA South Padre Parade rayq@portisabelsouth.com “Little” George Knowles vividly recalls how, as a teen, he’d scurry over to Harpoon Barry Welch’s tattoo shop, then located on E. Maxan and Garcia in Port Isabel, and nag the tattoo artist for an opportunity to learn from an area icon. “There was no chance he was …
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Aug 06 2021
By Constancio Martinez Jr Special to the PRESS Last week, the Port Isabel coaching staff held the 2021 Tarpons Football camp at Tarpon Stadium. The free, two-day camp was attended by kids from the surrounding communities, ages 5-and-up to incoming Freshmen. Port Isabel High School head football coach Tony Villareal told the PRESS the Tarpon …
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Aug 06 2021
By RAY QUIROGA South Padre Parade rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com If you’re a current or former boat owner who describes your ownership experience as costly, time-consuming, mentally and even financially exhausting, what you’re about to read may be for you. For the past 25 years, Gabriel Vanounou has built a reputation in the Laguna Madre area as a …
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Aug 06 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The day Governor Greg Abbott declared he would not impose a new mask mandate despite rising cases throughout the state, I, fully vaccinated since April, contracted COVID-19. The day the Rio Grande Valley saw 648 new cases for COVID-19, the first time cases have reached that number in months, every breath …
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Aug 06 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com As Point Isabel ISD prepares for the incoming school year, many of the same concerns surrounding COVID-19 remain, more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. “In some aspects it feels like déjà vu, and then on the other hand it’s a whole new experience and nightmare that we’re living all …
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Aug 06 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has some explaining to do. The Court of Appeals in the D.C. Circuit ruled that FERC failed to adequately explain the climate and environmental justice impacts of two proposed liquified natural gas (LNG) export plants slated for construction in the Port of Brownsville. Rio Grande …
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Aug 06 2021
By NAYELLI QUIROGA Special to the PRESS The Point Isabel Independent School District held a joint board workshop and bond committee meeting on August 3. The meeting began with updates by PIISD Financial Advisors, Estrada, Hinojosa & Co. Because of the Robin Hood plan, when the state finances schools, they take from wealthier districts and …
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Aug 06 2021
By RAY QUIROGA rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com They may not have the biggest boat, the most advanced onboard technology, nor do the claim to be the best fishermen in the game, but in their own way, the three-man fishing team of Wayne Soprych, Robb Hyland and Isai Cantu embody the spirit of the Texas International Fishing Tournament (TIFT) …
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Aug 06 2021
By Gaige Davila Photos courtesy of the Mock family. editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Raymond “Skipper” Mock, a local fishing guide, father, brother, uncle, can lay claim, perhaps better than most, to living and dying by the tides of the Laguna Madre. Raised in Port Isabel, Skipper was, is, a physical mythos of the waters that surround his hometown …
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