Sep 06 2019
Rio History: Where to Dig By Steve Hathcock Spike Reality series American Digger, starring former pro wrestler Ric Savage and the History Channel’s Swamp People, (a group of characters who make their living salvaging old logs, wrestling alligators and treasure hunting in the wilds of Louisiana swamps) have inspired a lot of interest in metal …
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Sep 06 2019
By GAIGE DAVILA editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Several local, county, and state officials officially opened the new pavilion and boardwalk on Isla Blanca Park via a ribbon cutting ceremony on August 29, just before sunset. The pavilion and boardwalk have been open since last week, in conclusion to over a year of construction that included: reconstructing and connecting …
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Sep 06 2019
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel High Lady Tarpons volleyball team is getting all players healthy and ready to start the district season next week. Head Lady Tarpons coach, Julie Breedlove, took time out from Tuesday’s practice at Tarpon Gym to fill the Press in on what’s been going on as …
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Sep 06 2019
By CONSTANCIO MARTINEZ JR. Special to the PRESS Before joining the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Port Isabel alumna, Natalie Garza, was a member of the PIHS varsity track team, starting her freshman year in 2015. She specialized in the 400m dash, making a name for herself by being the lone Tarpon to advance …
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Sep 06 2019
By ANGIE GAMEZ Special to the PRESS The City of Laguna Vista held a Special Council Meeting on September 3, 2019. The highlight of this meeting included a public hearing to solicit input regarding the 2019 ad valorem tax rate, and a public hearing to solicit input on the 2019-2020 Fiscal Year Budget. The …
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Sep 06 2019
By GAIGE DAVILA editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Cameron County Commissioners’ Court has scheduled to vote on a tax abatement request from Annova LNG, a liquefied natural gas export facility planned for development in the Port of Brownsville area, owned by Chicago, Illinois, based energy company Exelon, on October 1. The project owners are seeking a tax abatement …
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Sep 06 2019
By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS The South Padre Island City Council voted Wednesday evening to repeal and replace a controversial ordinance dealing with sound emitting devices as well as adopting the tax rate for 2019. Shortly after presenting proclamations for National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and National Food Safety Month, the SPI City …
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Aug 30 2019
By DAVID LEE ZAMORA Special to the Parade Where’d You Go, Bernadette, based on the novel by Maria Semple, follows Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett), a famed architect turned stay-at-home mother who finds any human interaction with anybody outside of her family challenging and stressful. All this builds up on the family, eventually leading to her …
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Aug 30 2019
Rio History: Bottle Cleaning By Steve Hathcock Matt found a bunch of old bottles while renovating an old building in his town’s historic district. “Some of them are real dirty,” he wrote, “have you ever written about how to clean them? Also, does it hurt the value of the bottle to clean it?” “Matt,” I …
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Aug 30 2019
By M. KATHY RAINES Special to the Parade Relax, it’s not a cottonmouth. Those venomous water snakes, you’ll be pleased to know, live no further south than Corpus Christi. No, that long, thick, brownish snake swimming in or basking along one of the Rio Grande Valley’s resaca is likely one of our benign and quite …
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