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Election Day is Saturday

BY SASHA HELLER Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The cities of Port Isabel and Laguna Vista and Point Isabel Independent School District (PISD) will hold their elections on Saturday, May 10. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. To read the rest of this story, please subscribe to the Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS E-edition by clicking here or …

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BI-DISTRICT PLAYOFFS: Hawks sweep Port Isabel; Holland optimistic of team’s future

By PETE BANDA Special to the PRESS LA JOYA – The Port Isabel Tarpons saw their impressive season, which included a third place finish in District 32-3A, come to a close in La Joya on Friday, where the Zapata Hawks swept PI in a best-of-three bi-district playoff clash. The Hawks put on a clinic in …

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Peggy Lynn Thobe

Overnight last week on Tuesday, in a peaceful sleep, Peggy Lynn Thobe went to be with her LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. Over the last 30 years she had nurtured hundreds of elementary students as the music teacher at Derry Elementary School in Port Isabel, Texas. For all of those many years she devoted herself to …

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Jose Alberto “Pellejos” Barrera

Jose Alberto  “Pellejos” Barrera, 79, of Port Isabel/Los Fresnos, Texas, entered into rest on April 24, 2014. Jose worked as a bait fisherman in the Laguna Madre area and at Jim’s Pier  filleting fish on South Padre Island for many years. He was preceded in death by his parents, Jose Luis and Micaela Martinez Barrera; …

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Jose Alberto Barrera

Jose Alberto Barrera, a native of Port Isabel, Texas passed away into eternal rest on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Barrera who was born on the brink of World War II on July 16, 1934 was left an orphan at the age of 8 and was raised by his older brothers and sisters. My dad like …

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TARPON BASEBALL REPORT – Junior Varsity

The Port Isabel JV team ended their season in Rio Hondo last week. And even though they did not get the win, the Tarpons played their best game of the season. To read the rest of this story, please subscribe to the Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS E-edition by clicking here or call the news office at (956) 943-5545.

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TARPON BASEBALL REPORT – Varsity

The Tarpon varsity team earned another trip to the postseason and locked up the third spot in 32-3A as they defeated the Rio Hondo Bobcats last Tuesday in Rio Hondo. To read the rest of this story, please subscribe to the Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS E-edition by clicking here or call the news office at (956) 943-5545.

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Tarpon boys compete at Regionals

BY LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS There were no state qualifiers among those Port Isabel Tarpon athletes who competed at last weekend’s Region IV Track and Field Meet in Kingsville. Trey Mock and Raul Villareal each made the finals in discus and shot put respectively and recorded the team’s highest finishes at third and …

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Murchison, Torres qualify for State meet

BY LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Daniela Murchison and Gabby Torres have punched their tickets to the UIL State Track and Field Meet. Murchison qualified in both the shot put and discus events for the second consecutive year, and Torres made it in the high jump. To read the rest of this story, please subscribe to …

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Cleanup hauls 120 tons of trash

BY SASHA HELLER Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Volunteers statewide took to the beaches on Saturday as part of the 28th annual Texas General Land Office (GLO) Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup. More than 7,334 volunteers hauled more than 120 tons of trash that was littered up and down the Texas coastline. To read the rest of this story, please subscribe …

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