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Good Start for Lady Tarpons Track

By Larry Gage Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel High girls track team was finally able to get in its first meet of the 2021 season last week, and the results were pretty good.  The PRESS found head Lady Tarpons track coach Julie Breedlove at the high school on Monday, and she certainly liked …

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Part I: Depression Era Basketball: In the 1930s, Tarpons dominated the dirt courts

By RENE TORRES Special to the PRESS/NEWS With the 2020-21 edition of the Port Isabel Tarpon Basketball Team heating up the courts straight into the postseason, this writer thought it would an appropriate time to reissue an article compiled and published in 2015 detailing the Post-Depression-Era Tarpons and their historic run on the courts that …

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‘It’s been a disaster’: Bayview citrus groves destroyed by winter storm

By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com  Winter Storm Uri’s damage seems to be long gone, but anyone driving on FM 510 towards San Benito has seen otherwise.  Countless groves of citrus trees in Bayview died in the aftermath of a storm that brought Laguna Madre area temperatures below freezing. With spring here, the usually green groves are …

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Musk pursues incorporation of Boca Chica Village into new city

By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk wants to incorporate Boca Chica Village,  into a new city named Starbase, Texas.  Musk alluded to the incorporation inquiry on his Twitter account this week, just before SpaceX’s SN10 rocket launched and landed upright on Mar. 3. The rocket exploded on its launch pad minutes …

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Rio Grande Distillery brings moonshine to the RGV

By Gaige Davila Los Fresnos, Texas, may be the last place anyone would expect to find moonshine, but it’s there, and it’s presence is becoming more known.  Jerrod Leon Henry, owner and master distiller of Rio Grande Distillery, makes Magic Valley Moonshine from his storefront on Highway 100 in between Laguna Vista and Los Fresnos …

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Gardening: Saving the survivors

By Robert Lewis Special to the PRESS Wow, was that one heck of a storm.  I have spent today, Saturday Feb. 20, unwrapping plants, removing the Plumerias and Desert Rose out of the garage, picking up plastic sheeting and bed sheets and trying to get everything in the yard to not look like a freezing …

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TPWD assessing Laguna Madre fish kill

            By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com  Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD) biologists are assessing a large-scale fish kill across the Texas coast after a cold front froze the state.  In the Laguna Madre, TPWD biologists are currently assessing the freeze’s impact on game and foraging fish and were not available for …

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After freeze, cities, school district give aid

          By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com  Immediately after temperatures rose after last week’s freeze, the Laguna Madre’s cities and Point Isabel Independent School District (PI-ISD) came to aid.  With school cancelled for the entirety of last week, and portions of the Laguna Madre area still without power, PI-ISD hand delivered meals to …

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SPIPD Blotter: Feb. 17-22

Curated by Steve Hathcock 30.05 CRIMINAL TRESPASS OF A HABITATION: On February 15th, 2021 at approximately 2 p.m., officers responded to the 100 block of East Ling Street in reference to possible trespassing. A male subject was issued a written criminal trespass warning and was advised to leave the location. A person commits an offense …

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Lady Tarpons Track Off and Running

By Larry Gage  Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel High girls’ track program is off and running with a delayed start for the 2021 season due to last week’s onslaught of unpleasant weather.  The Tarpon Relays, to have been held at P.I.’s own Tarpon Stadium last Saturday, had to be canceled.  Next up on …

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