May 07 2021
By Rene Torres Special to the PRESS Port Isabel for sale! The complete sale of the sea village occurred in the Spring of 1927. The acquisition was announced in Brownsville and the following year, it was incorporated into an official town. On this historical day, the city began its march toward establishing a modern city …
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Apr 05 2021
By Gaige Davila “I never wanted to be a photographer,” Capt. Danno Wise said, during a signing event for his book, “Fishing for Photographs” at Laguna Bobs on the Island. But with the success of this book, the captain, Port Isabel High School history teacher, and freelance writer is, inadvertently, now a photographer. …
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Apr 05 2021
By Gaige Davila At WillieDean Bagels, you can find a part of Broadway on Padre. Ernie Lopez and his sister, Bella, own and operate WillieDean Bagels on South Padre Island. Since 2019, the shop has served bagels with made-in-house cream cheeses or into breakfast and lunch sandwiches. WillieDean Bages is one of only two bagel …
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Apr 05 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com A crew of sailors is leaving today for a two to three week journey across the Gulf of Mexico, bound for Boca Chica to tell SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk that they can train the first people on Mars. Aboard the 70-foot sailboat Anne, the crew proposes they can train …
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Apr 05 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Art Business Incubator (ABI-SPI), like many in the Laguna Madre area, has had quite a year. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a new crop of resident artists and upcoming events, a car crashed into ABI-SPI’s building last week. The front door is destroyed, and a crack now runs along the …
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Mar 22 2021
By RENE TORRES Special to the PRESS/NEWS The Rio Grande Valley occupies a unique and highly important position in the annals of American progress and development. When the dispute between the United States and Mexico became a noticeable conflict—it was in Point Isabel, as it was known then, that Fort Polk was born. Zachary Taylor …
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Mar 12 2021
By RENE TORRES Special to the PRESS Rio Grande Valley high school and junior high division basketball got a boast in the 1930s by the La Feria Lions Letterman’s club. C. E. Vail, La Feria coach and Cameron Country director of sports was the leader in promoting athletics in the entire Rio Grande Valley. Beginning …
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Mar 12 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Queen Isabella Causeway collapse is a story more recited than told. But a new podcast is seeking to tell the collapse’s story in more detail than ever before, from those who were there, nearly 20 years later. “The True Story of the Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse” podcast first debuted …
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Mar 05 2021
By RENE TORRES Special to the PRESS/NEWS With the 2020-21 edition of the Port Isabel Tarpon Basketball Team heating up the courts straight into the postseason, this writer thought it would an appropriate time to reissue an article compiled and published in 2015 detailing the Post-Depression-Era Tarpons and their historic run on the courts that …
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Mar 01 2021
By Gaige Davila Los Fresnos, Texas, may be the last place anyone would expect to find moonshine, but it’s there, and it’s presence is becoming more known. Jerrod Leon Henry, owner and master distiller of Rio Grande Distillery, makes Magic Valley Moonshine from his storefront on Highway 100 in between Laguna Vista and Los Fresnos …
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April 5, 2021
April 5, 2021
By LOUIE DIAZ editor@sbnewspaper.com This week, the San Benito Rotary Club awarded over 1,600 discount cards to all San Benito school personnel as a part of its ‘Hometown Heroes’ project. The Rotary Club coordinated with restaurants across San Benito to create a discount for all San Benito school employees including those at San Benito CISD, … Continue reading [...]
By LOUIE DIAZ editor@sbnewspaper.com The Rio Hondo ISD Board of Trustees and the City of Los Indios elections came to an end on Saturday, May 1. Four seats—Place 1, Place 2, Place 3, and Place 4—were all open on the RHISD school board. Billie D. Simpson defeated Hoss Lozano for Place 1 on the Rio … Continue reading [...]
By LOUIE DIAZ editor@sbnewspaper.com The end of the 2021 election season brought some changes to the San Benito CISD Board of Trustees, however, the San Benito City Commission remains the same. In the SBCISD school board race, three seats were open — Place 1, Place 2, and Place 3. In Place 1, Ariel Cruz narrowly … Continue reading [...]
By LOUIE DIAZ editor@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito Chamber of Commerce held its ‘Meet the Candidates’ event on Friday, April 23. Four candidates in the San Benito City Commissioner’s race were in attendance including: incumbents Pete Galvan and Carol Lynn Sanchez and challengers Victor Rosas and Jesus Loperena. Not in attendance was Benjamin Gomez. In attendance … Continue reading [...]
News Staff Report Parks in San Benito have reopened after over a year of being closed. During a regular commission meeting, the San Benito City Commission discussed and unanimously passed the Sixth Supplemental Order 2020-04 which opens all public parks. The order also mandates all people to wear masks while doing business inside city buildings. … Continue reading [...]
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