Sep 23 2016
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Contest season is fast approaching and the Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon Marching Band remains hard at work in preparation for the first contest of the season. The Press was able to visit this week with one of the assistant directors of the band and two veteran members …
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Sep 23 2016
By JOE HAMBY Special to the PRESS Meet Paul Trice, a long time Port Isabel resident and timekeeper for the Port Isabel Tarpons football games since 2001. Trice has also worked in Los Fresno and San Benito from time to time. Recently, he sat for an interview with the PRESS, where he explained what had …
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Sep 23 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com I don’t think there’s a single person in the Laguna Madre region who doesn’t realize just how important our environment is — and just how fragile it is. One of the best parts about living here is seeing how much my fellow residents care about the native life …
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Sep 23 2016
By MARILYN LORENZ Special to the PRESS If you happen to have looked up at the sky recently you may very well have noticed large birds flying overhead. Strings of cormorants by the hundreds and both large and small flocks of herons and egrets are passing by. The curlews have been back for weeks and sandpipers …
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Sep 23 2016
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS One of the most amusing experiences I have ever had was when I watched my grandson, Luke first discover his own image in our wall mirror. Luke cooed and ahhed as his little fingers gently explored the face that peered back at him from the glass; a dawning realization …
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Sep 16 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Thursday, Sept. 15, marked the 15th anniversary of the collapse of the Queen Isabella Causeway after it was struck in the middle of the night by a barge in 2001. Each year since, the cities of South Padre Island and Port Isabel have taken turns marking the tragic …
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Sep 16 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The waters off South Padre Island are still streaked with the color of rust, and a hint of the smell of dead fish lingers in the air. Red tide is still here, for the second week in a row; however, the algal bloom seems to be mild near …
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Sep 16 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Port Isabel City Commission this week approved the appointment of Robert Lopez as the City’s new chief of police. The decision came at the end of Tuesday night’s regular city meeting. The commissioners retired to executive session for approximately an hour to discuss the nomination and one …
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Sep 16 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The second and final readings of the budget and property tax rates for the 2016-2017 fiscal year were unanimously approved Tuesday night at a regular meeting of the Port Isabel City Commission. The City also approved several expenditures by the Economic Development Corporation (EDC). There was only one …
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Sep 16 2016
SPECIAL TO THE PRESS On Sept. 14, at approximately 2:27 p.m., South Padre Island Police Department responded to a report from a concerned citizen, of a body floating in the water at around the 2000 block of Gulf Boulevard on the beach side. Want the whole story? Pick up a copy of the Port Isabel-South …
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