Mar 27 2025
David Woods is a South Padre Island fishing guide with over 20 years of experience. He is the author of three books offering expert fishing advice. Sheepshead fishing was as good as it gets the last couple of days. With low pressure bearing down on us, spring migration and spawn is on full …
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Mar 20 2025
By MARY GRIZZARD Black Mangroves are a fascinating keystone species of saltwater wetlands here in the coastal tip of Texas, and they’re on the march. Just in case you weren’t sure, these are the dense, stiff-leaved thickets that grow in intermittent clusters along the shores of the Laguna Madre and in the Rio Grande delta. …
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Mar 20 2025
By CONSTANCIO MARTINEZ, JR. Special to the PRESS This past Friday, March 14, the Port Isabel Girls Powerlifting Team traveled to Edinburg to compete at the 4A D2 State Championships held at the Bert Odgen Arena. The Championship Meet featured 180 lifters from around Texas, with Port Isabel sending five of its own powerlifters to …
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Mar 20 2025
David Woods is a South Padre Island fishing guide with over 20 years of experience. He is the author of three books offering expert fishing advice. Under the buzz and glow of the metal halide flood lamps, the surface of the water popped and crackled like frying bacon as speckled trout greedily fed. I …
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Mar 20 2025
By ARABELLA SERRATA Staff Writer Laguna Vista has hired former San Benito City Manager and Resaca City native, Victor Trevino, to oversee the city’s operations. Trevino was named Laguna Vista City Manager roughly three months after LVPD Deputy Greg Cruz was ushered in as interim city manager in December 2024, following the departure of former …
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Mar 13 2025
By ARABELLA SERRATA Staff Writer The City of Port Isabel announced the passing of beloved city official and community member Ernestina ‘Tina’ Broughton Barrera. According to her official obituary, Barrera passed away on March 5, 2025, at 99 years old. She was born on April 7, 1925, in Port Isabel. She graduated from Port Isabel …
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Mar 13 2025
By ARABELLA SERRATA Staff Writer According to their official website, NextDecade has been in the midst of construction for a new Brownsville location to meet the “global demand for sustainable energy” for liquified natural gas [LNG]. According to Susan Richardson, Senior Director of Communications at NextDecade, phase one of the project is “progressing safely and …
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Mar 13 2025
By ARABELLA SERRATA Staff Writer SpaceX launched their eighth flight test of the Starship, on March 6. According to the SpaceX official website, the Super Heavy booster shut down three out of 15 Raptor engines. This was planned for “hot staging separation,” according to the website. The ship then separated the Raptor engines from the …
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Mar 13 2025
By MARY GRIZZARD An alarming — although not surprising — study was just published in the March 6 issue of the journal Science, reporting that between the years 2000 and 2020, the total butterfly population across the continental United States fell by 22%. Pesticides, climate change and habitat loss were cited as the main reasons …
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Mar 06 2025
By ALEXANDREA BAILEY editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Laguna Madre residents were given quite the shock when the familiar blimp that usually hovers above the bay began doing summersaults last Monday, March 3. This blimp is a multi-million dollar Air and Marine Operations [AMO] Tethered Aerostat System owned and operated by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol [CBP]. According to …
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