Nov 04 2016
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon Band has qualified for the state marching contest. They did so by placing first in Class 4A in the area contest at Gregory-Portland High School last Saturday. At the area contest all bands march in the preliminaries and then again in the …
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Nov 04 2016
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpons continued to take care of business last Friday night as they tamed the Raymondville Bearkats, 36-6, at Tarpon Stadium. With the win the Tarpons clinch a playoff spot and improve their district record to 3-1 with one game to play. Port Isabel scored the …
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Nov 04 2016
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The sound of basketballs hitting the floor can clearly be heard emanating from Tarpon Gym these days as the Port Isabel Tarpons and Lady Tarpons have started practicing for the upcoming season. Both squads held their first practices last Wednesday, Oct. 26, and the Lady Tarpons have already …
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Nov 04 2016
Special to the PRESS Dear Editor, Rio Grande Valley needs LNG jobs. We’re a family of engineers who work in the energy industry. I’m a petroleum engineer who works in the oil and gas business. My husband is an offshore deep water drilling consultant, and our son and daughter are both petroleum engineers. We know …
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Nov 04 2016
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS Though it seems second nature to us today, because no one had ever seen such a device before and few could figure out how it worked, the first zipper came with a set of instructions! Whitcomb Judson is generally given credit with inventing the zipper but that honor really …
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Nov 04 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com What’s your comfort food? It’s the first week of November, and ostensibly we’re in fall — at least according to my calendar. But with much of the Rio Grande Valley hitting record high temperatures over the past several days, it still feels very much like summer. Regardless of …
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Oct 21 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Early voting begins Monday, Oct. 24 for both the General Election, as well as local elections, but this time voters on South Padre Island have a new twist to contend with at the polls. Both the City of South Padre Island and Cameron County have propositions on the …
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Oct 21 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com It was a shocking video that made the rounds of social media some months back: a sea turtle with a plastic drinking straw lodged deep in one nostril. Good Samaritans found the animal and removed the straw, which had sunk several inches into its nose. It was that …
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Oct 21 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com By DINA ARÉVALO The Brownsville Navigation District (BND) Board of Directors approved motions to negotiate with Valley Crossing Pipeline, LLC and Texas LNG during a regular meeting Wednesday. In regards to Valley Crossing Pipeline, the BND will open negotiations into the possible site of a natural gas compression …
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Oct 21 2016
Special to the PRESS Texas Game Wardens, along with the U.S. Coast Guard and the Department of Homeland Security, helped intercept a drug shipment along a popular stretch of surf on South Padre Island early Thursday morning, seizing 730 pounds of marijuana and arresting six individuals on drug trafficking charges. Around 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 13, game wardens assigned …
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