Oct 01 2021
Photos and words by Gaige Davila The PARADE sat with Will Abete as he started his shift at The Meatball Cafe, preparing to special a piña colada using fresh squeezed pineapple juice. Abete, 25, has worked at The Meatball Cafe for two months. Before, he bartended just across Padre Boulevard at Tequila Sunset. He’s lived …
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Oct 01 2021
By RENE TORRES Special to the PRESS/NEWS After Pearl Harbor, many of our local boys did not hesitate at the opportunity to join the war effort. In fact, according to Valley-wide selective service records—Cameron and Hidalgo counties revealed that over 27,000 of our boys were registered to serve. That did not include the numbers from …
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Sep 24 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Port Isabel High School graduate Michael Bernard is on his way to Mariachi stardom, judging by his television debut this past week. Bernard traveled to Los Angeles earlier this month to tape his audition for “Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento,” a Spanish-language program similar to “America’s Got Talent.” He performed Marco Antonio …
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Sep 17 2021
Photos and words by Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Though the now-named Queen Isabella Memorial Causeway collapsed 20 years ago, for many it might as well have been yesterday. That’s how it feels for Robert Espericueta and Tony Salinas, two of the four men who saved the three survivors of the collapse. On the twentieth anniversary of …
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Sep 10 2021
Special to the PRESS The UTRGV Athletics Hall of Fame Committee announced last Tuesday the 2022 Athletics Hall of Fame class, which includes the 1987-90 women’s cross country team, former men’s basketball student-athlete Jim Board, former women’s tennis student-athlete Barbara (Barrera) Gonzales, and former baseball student-athlete Joe Hernandez. The committee also announced that former baseball …
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Aug 20 2021
By RENE TORRES Special to the PRESS/NEWS The “Roaring Twenties,” one could say, created a pandemic for those that were afflicted with the consumption of liquor. But it was also considered an era of progress, and Rio Grande Valley experienced tremendous growth in business and population during that period of time. “Life” magazine called it …
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Aug 20 2021
By Robert Lewis Special to the PRESS Well it’s a good news / bad news report this week. The good news is that with the drier weather of the last few weeks some of the crops that we notice along our highways that have been so waterlogged with frequent heavy rains have started to dry …
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Aug 15 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Ana González has returned to her roots. González, who is teaching freshmen world geography at Port Isabel High School (PIHS) this year, her first year teaching, graduated from PIHS in 2017. She played on the soccer team, was in DECA, National Honor Society and the Junior Leadership Council before heading 400 …
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Aug 06 2021
By RAY QUIROGA South Padre Parade rayq@portisabelsouth.com “Little” George Knowles vividly recalls how, as a teen, he’d scurry over to Harpoon Barry Welch’s tattoo shop, then located on E. Maxan and Garcia in Port Isabel, and nag the tattoo artist for an opportunity to learn from an area icon. “There was no chance he was …
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Aug 06 2021
By RAY QUIROGA South Padre Parade rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com If you’re a current or former boat owner who describes your ownership experience as costly, time-consuming, mentally and even financially exhausting, what you’re about to read may be for you. For the past 25 years, Gabriel Vanounou has built a reputation in the Laguna Madre area as a …
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October 1, 2021
September 24, 2021
By LOUIE DIAZ editor@sbnewspaper.com The Edinburg Vela Sabercats defeated the San Benito Greyhounds, 17-7 during their bi-district playoff football game on Thursday, Nov. 11. The ’Hounds scored during the first quarter but had trouble getting into the endzone the remainder of the game. Near the end of the first quarter, the ’Hounds scored a touchdown … Continue reading [...]
NEWS Staff Report This week and next week, communities will host events for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. The Los Indios Police Department will host a Senior Citizen Appreciation Thanksgiving Dinner on Tuesday, Nov. 23. The dinner will take place at the Diamantina Community Building at 109 E. Sixth St. from 5-7 p.m. The San Benito … Continue reading [...]
By LOUIE DIAZ editor@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito EDC Board of Directors discussed the VARCO agreement and changes to its grant guidelines during a regular board meeting on Monday, Nov. 1. VARCO Agreement The EDC Board discussed changes to the agreement between the San Benito EDC and VARCO. Board member Deborah Morales questioned if a penalty … Continue reading [...]
By LOUIE DIAZ editor@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito City Commission discussed changes to the San Benito EDC grant guidelines and the epicenter tax zone during a regular commission meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 16. EDC Grant Revisions City commissioners discussed changes to the two EDC grant guidelines. Commissioner Rene Garcia said that he would like to see … Continue reading [...]
By RENE TORRES Special to the NEWS In March of 1944, Women’s Army Corps (WAC) officials came to the Valley to conduct a recruiting campaign for a specific squadron to be composed of Latin-American girls and woman for the U.S. Army’s Air WAC. Captain John V. Deuel, of the Army Air Forces (AAF), who had … Continue reading [...]
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