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 15 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com In a sobering press conference this past Monday, county health leaders pleaded with residents to get vaccinated for COVID-19, as younger people are being hospitalized with the Delta variant. Cameron County Health Authority Dr. James Castillo estimates at least 90% of new COVID-19 cases are Delta, a stark contrast to the …
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Aug 15 2021
By RENE TORRES Special to the PRESS/NEWS Golf has always been a popular sport in Brownsville and throughout the Rio Grande Valley. You can give credit to the soldiers at Fort Brown for bringing the game to town. The fort was established in 1846 with the beginning of the war with Mexico. With Zachary …
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Aug 09 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The lone suspect in a triple homicide on South Padre Island was arraigned Monday morning in the city’s court. Yordi Barthelemy, a 23-year-old man from Kerns, Texas, was arraigned on capital murder and assault family violence for the shooting deaths of a 46, 47 and 65-year-old woman this past Saturday, August …
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Aug 08 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Three women were found dead in a South Padre Island hotel last night after police responded to a disturbance call. Police responded to a family disturbance call at the Suites at Sunchase hotel, at 1004 Padre Blvd, around 10 p.m. on Saturday, August 8, night. There officers found three women, ages …
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Aug 06 2021
By M. Kathy Raines Special to the PARADE A bronzed cowbird is not a bad bird for depositing her eggs in the nest of an unwitting host, whose own brood often dies. No, the cowbird, like ourselves, does what it does to survive and prosper. An obligate brood parasite—like about 1% of bird species, including …
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Aug 06 2021
Photos and words by Gaige Davila Books, at least being able to buy them, have returned to the Laguna Madre area. Unruly Cactus, a bookstore and coffee bar, opened three weeks ago in the shadow of the Port Isabel Lighthouse, its home in the Fort Polk Commissary building, the last strip of businesses before driving …
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Aug 06 2021
By NAYELLI QUIROGA Special to the PRESS The Laguna Madre Water District held a regular meeting on July 28. LMWD General Manager, Carlos Jaime Galvan Jr., reviewed the reservoir levels which were about the same as in the report prior, which is at 39.6 ft. He also discussed the Summer Picnic. The Summer Picnic’s main …
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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 Constancio Martinez Jr Special to the PRESS Last week, the Port Isabel coaching staff held the 2021 Tarpons Football camp at Tarpon Stadium. The free, two-day camp was attended by kids from the surrounding communities, ages 5-and-up to incoming Freshmen. Port Isabel High School head football coach Tony Villareal told the PRESS the Tarpon …
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