Dec 13 2019
By Joanna “Luna” Sanchez Special to the PRESS Welcome back to The Most Haunted Places in the RGV. Last week, we took you on our investigation in San Juan, Texas. This week, we’re headed back to Brownsville, Texas, to investigate the legend of Daisy Starck. Starck was born December 1, 1874, and died July 13, …
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Dec 13 2019
By Constancio Martinez, Jr. Special to the PRESS The PI-ISD School Board held a special meeting on Monday, December 9, at Port Isabel High School Lecture Hall, where a resolution was passed to pay a one-time $500 stipend to all district permanent employees who complete a safety training program. Superintendent Theresa Alarcon laid out the …
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Dec 06 2019
By Steve Hathcock Doug Olson sent me the following email: Hi Steve, Here is a picture of some of the things I found while beachcombing on South Padre Island this past February. I hope the pictures are good enough for you to see some of the details. Doug Olson …
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Dec 06 2019
By David Lee Zamora Special to the Parade Knives Out is a fun, exciting murder mystery that manages to feel like a wacky Wes Anderson film. The film is about an investigation into the apparent suicide of Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), a wealthy author with a large, spoiled family. Someone in the family hired …
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Dec 06 2019
Special to the PRESS On Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 6:30 P.M. and Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 10 A.M., El Paseo Arts Foundation’s Players Troupe will hold auditions for two plays: Audition for a Murder and Love, Sex and the IRS. Audition for a Murder by Lee Mueller is El Paseo’s annual comedy-mystery playa: …
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Dec 06 2019
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Serena Brown is a junior member of the Port Isabel High girls’ basketball team. She’s starting her second year as a Varsity player. She missed most of last season due to an injury. “Last year I rolled my ankle and I was out for about half the …
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Dec 06 2019
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Port Isabel High sophomore Mandy Perkins is starting her second season on the Varsity basketball team. This week she talked with the Press about how she is is more comfortable with the experience the second time around. “My first year on Varsity I was a little nervous around …
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Dec 06 2019
By Laura Lyles Reagan Special to the PRESS The holidays are here! You’ve planned and prepared. But too often the holidays can be a hectic, chaotic swirl of shopping, entertaining, and traveling. Kids may be looking forward to doing absolutely nothing during the holidays. They may be a little burned out from the structure and regiment …
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Dec 06 2019
By ROBERT AVILA Special to the NEWS I’m a lefty liberal arts major rightly conservative in my concern about the cool illusion of collusion between the media we consume and our confusion of what is right and what will be left of us when the word “fake news” is abused until we lose any sense …
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Dec 06 2019
By CONSTANCIO MARTINEZ, JR. Special to the PRESS On Friday, December 6, the City of South Padre Island welcomes the public as they kick off the holiday season with their Christmas Tree Lighting, at SPI City Hall from 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. After the Tree Lighting ceremony, the 31st Annual Christmas Parade will follow …
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