Mar 17 2022
By DAVID LOPEZ Special to the PRESS The Town of Laguna Vista’s council meeting Tuesday, March 8 discussed the financial reports of the town and council members approved various resolutions for the town. The City Manager Rendie R. Gonzales first announced that the Autism Run is scheduled for April 23 and then moved on to …
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Mar 10 2022
By SHELDON MOORE Special to the PRESS With a stroke of the gavel, at 7 p.m. sharp, on Tuesday evening March 8, Mayor JJ Zamora, Sr. called to order the Regular Meeting of the City of Port Isabel City Commission. Also present and participating were Martin Cantu Jr., City Commissioner Place 1, Maria Del Carmen …
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Mar 10 2022
Special to the PRESS The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens has partnered with Fishing’s Future and the George H.W. Bush Vamos A Pescar Education Fund to provide convenient fishing education opportunities for families throughout Texas. The program began February 26 and will continue through June with a variety of …
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Mar 10 2022
By ALEXANDREA BAILEY editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Mattew and Mariah Krueger from Demoi Iowa were driving southbound on Padre Boulevard when they witnessed the aftermath of a golf-cart turnover on March 9. They came upon a golf-cart turned over on its side around 3 p.m. outside of Peggy’s Tattoos and stopped to assist. According to Mattew Krueger, they …
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Mar 10 2022
By SHELDON MOORE Special to the PRESS “Another year we will never forget” were the words of South Padre Island Chamber of Commerce President Alita Bagley as she introduced Mayor Patrick McNulty at the March 1 Quarterly Public Affairs Luncheon. Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino, Jr. was among those in attendance in the near capacity …
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Mar 10 2022
By SHELDON MOORE Special to the PRESS The City of South Padre Island hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the reconstruction of South Padre Island’s Laguna Boulevard on March 7. Mayor Patrick McNulty, flanked by council members and other key city figures, celebrated the event in spite of a steady rain brought on by a cool front’s …
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Mar 10 2022
By CONSTANCIO MARTINEZ, JR. Special to the PRESS This past Thursday, March 3, the Port Isabel Lady Tarpons hosted a three-day softball tournament. The tournament had the following teams participating, Port Isabel Varsity, Port Isabel JV, Edinburg IDEA Quest, Edinburg IDEA College Prep, Santa Rosa, La Villa and Monte Alto. The first day of the …
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Mar 03 2022
By M. KATHY RAINES Special to the PARADE Lush, intricate melodies tumbled from a willow tree near the river at Sabal Palm Sanctuary one unusually quiet midday afternoon. But, searching treetops for the presumed songster, the illustrious northern mockingbird, I found none. Then, to my surprise, I realized this sweetness poured from a brownish, orange-eyed …
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Mar 03 2022
By RENE TORRES Special to the PARADE Her name was Irma Garza born in 1944 in Linn, Texas—located about 30 miles north of Edinburg. She rose from this agrarian community singing her way with a defined destiny. You could say that the stage was her playground. Her first audience was her family and by the …
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