Aug 12 2016
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS It takes more than a few directors to run a high school marching band, at least in Port Isabel. Every year the Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon Marching Band elects a number of officers, including a president and vice-president, a librarian and even a spirit leader. The directors, …
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Aug 12 2016
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpons football team has continued its morning schedule of practices this week, and was scheduled to hold its first scrimmage of the 2016 season this Friday (the 12th). Players put on the pads and started contact work last Friday, and an intra-squad scrimmage was played …
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Aug 12 2016
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS My longtime readers will remember Kay Lay’s and my Beachcomber’s Museum of local and natural history located in our bookstore-coffee pub on South Padre Island. Kay and I ran the museum quite successfully from around 2002 to 2009 when we to packed it away while we remodeled our building. …
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Aug 12 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Last Friday, the people of Rio de Janeiro ushered in one of my favorite sports spectacles, the summer Olympics, with a colorful Latino flair. A two-week long event which occurs only once every four years, this Olympiad is nonetheless one of many firsts. It’s the first Olympics to …
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Aug 05 2016
Special to the PRESS Editor, It is early in this election cycle but it is emerging as giving us the starkest choices in any election cycle since at least Kennedy and Nixon. Obliviously I cannot make judgments on elections that happened before I have any conscious memory of them. I can read about them, but we …
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Aug 05 2016
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS When the North Americans started moving into this area in the mid-1840s, they ignored the warnings of the native Mexican people, building homes and businesses in areas that historically had been considered hurricane susceptible. Writing for the “Latigo de Tejas”, a Matamoras newspaper, Andres Piñeda reported on one bad …
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Aug 05 2016
By JAVIER GONZALEZ Special to the PRESS The tides have a profound effect on Coastal habitats. The force of the water as it rises into (flood tide) and falls out of (ebb tide) the salt marsh and salt flats stirs up a great diversity of micro and macro organisms that in turn trigger a feeding …
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Jul 29 2016
Gonzalez announces retirement, David named as replacement By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com After eight of service to the City of Port Isabel, Chief of Police Gualberto “Wally” Gonzalez has announced his retirement. The chief announced his retirement at a press conference held at City Hall Friday afternoon, where he was joined by City …
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Jul 29 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Port Isabel City Manager Jared Hockema led the second of two budget workshops for the 2016-2017 fiscal year during Tuesday night’s regular meeting of the city commission. At the top of the discussion: wage increases for police officers, some public works employees and several other positions throughout the …
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Jul 29 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Texas General Land Office(GLO) hosted a workshop for members of the Technical Advisory Committee aimed at discussing coastal resiliency. The workshop was held at the Port Isabel Event and Cultural Center and was attended by local stakeholders, as well as officials from across the state. Among the …
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