Jul 27 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Point Isabel School Board of Trustees met Monday to continue ongoing discussions about the district’s 2018-19 budget. The finance department staff was pleasantly surprised to have received the latest report of property values from the County sooner than they had anticipated, explained Henry LeVrier, deputy superintendent for …
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Jul 27 2018
By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS In honor of Shark Week, Marine biologists from the UTRGV School of Earth, Environmental and Marine Sciences (SEEMS), offered dissections to the public for the first time Monday evening at their Coastal Studies Lab in Isla Blanca Park on South Padre Island. Marine biologists Shelby Bessette and Heather …
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Jul 27 2018
By MARTHA McCLAIN Special to the PRESS Neighborhood Watch Residents interested in helping to establish a Neighborhood Watch may contact Laguna Vista Police Chief Tony David at 943-3446 or at pdchief@lvtexas.us. Neighborhood Watch is an organized group of civilians devoted to crime and vandalism prevention within a neighborhood. Advisory Boards – Openings The Town is looking …
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Jul 27 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Former Silver Tarpon band member Colin Minkler is back where he started. Minkler has been assisting with summer band camp at Port Isabel High School and he thoroughly enjoys helping out any way he can. The PRESS sat down with Minkler this week and he shared his thoughts …
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Jul 27 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The bass drummer is traditionally that member of the percussion section that paces the rest of the band with a steady beat. In the Port Isabel Silver Tarpon Marching Band they do much more than that. The PRESS recently spoke with Nathanial Zurita, who is one of four …
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Jul 27 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS After several weeks of practicing in sections the Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon Marching Band has come together and is playing as a contiguous whole for the first time this week. With the first halftime show now just five weeks away things are proceeding more or less on …
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Jul 27 2018
Special to the PRESS Editor, We support the proposed Rio Grande LNG project because people in the Rio Grande Valley need the good-paying jobs that this proposed project will bring. An economic study by the Perryman Group shows that the project would bring thousands of jobs during construction and add a few hundred permanent jobs …
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Jul 27 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com If you’ve been outside during the daytime at all this past week, then you’ll have realized we are well and truly into the dog days of summer. There’s only one word one can use to describe the weather: hot. Actually, I can think of a few others: sweltering, …
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Jul 27 2018
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS Mr. Hathcock, I found a shell while vacationing last September on South Padre Island. I was very surprised to find it in an unbroken condition. My husband says it was probably bought at a shell shop because of its condition. Is this shell normally found on Padre Island? Thank …
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Jul 20 2018
[slideshow_deploy id=’20085′] By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Monday, July 23 will mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Dolly, which made landfall north of the City of South Padre Island at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23, 2008. It was the first hurricane to make a direct hit on the Rio Grande Valley in …
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