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Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife sue USFWS

Biological opinions on LNG export plants in question By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife environmentalist groups filed lawsuits challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) biological opinions and incidental take statements granted to Houston, Texas, based Annova LNG and Rio Grande LNG, owned by NextDecade. The two liquefied natural …

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Creatures Among Us: The Nine-Banded Armadillo

By M. Kathy Raines Special to the PRESS Mirroring traits of the quintessential Texan, the nine-banded armadillo is “a hardy, pioneering creature,” one possessing “deep respect and need for the land, the ability to change and adapt, and a fierce, undying love for freedom,” according to 1995’s Texas legislature. Armadillos’ migration to Texas roughly coincides …

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With bars, venues closed, Jenuine Cello returns to Facebook Live

By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Jen Mulhern started her Jenuine Cello solo project on her porch when she moved to South Padre Island at the beginning of 2017, performing on Facebook Live to build a local audience.  From there, Mulhern played regularly on the Island and in Brownsville and Harlingen, whether at Painted Marlin, Dodici, Carlito’s …

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Rio History: The Torpedo

By Steve Hathcock A woman called me the other day to tell me about her recent beachcombing trip to the mouth of the Rio Grande River. While exploring in the mudflats that lie directly north of the riverbank, she found shards of glass and several unbroken bottles. “One of the bottles is very odd” she …

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PI-ISD will continue online instruction, distribution programs amid school closure

By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com All Texas schools will remain closed for the rest of the 2019-2020 academic year, as novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread throughout Texas. At Point Isabel Independent School District (PI-ISD), instruction will continue. PI-ISD’s food and technology distribution programs will continue until May 28, the last day of the 2019-2020 academic …

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LV resident making masks for essential workers

By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com A small, red cooler in the Golf Course neighborhood of Laguna Vista has become a welcome sign of relief for many needing face coverings. Dixie Jo Cullens, a Laguna Vista resident for the last two years, has made cotton face masks for the last month and a half, using the Center …

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Letter from the editor: For What It’s Worth

By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com We’re wandering in a well-lit room. We being any of us taking the COVID-19 pandemic seriously. In that well-lit room, there’s an elephant we can see clearly, the gravity of the contemporary world’s first global cataclysm, screaming as we go from the rooms’ four corners: shopping at H-E-B in ill-fitting masks, …

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PI-ISD expands technology, counseling resources for students, parents

By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Point Isabel Independent Student District (PI-ISD) is expanding more of its technology and counseling resources as its students and staff continue to experience the 2020 school year away from the district’s campus.  After calls from parents, PI-ISD is now providing more Apple iPad devices, for its elementary school students, and Google …

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Contractor employee at Port Isabel Detention Center tests positive for COVID-19

By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com A contractor employee from Chenega Facilities Management, a subsidiary of an Anchorage, Alaksa, based Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) with a San Antonio, Texas, office, who worked at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas, has tested positive for novel coronavirus COVID-19. The positive test was confirmed by Vice President …

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Cameron County COVID-19 cases in the triple digits

By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com  Three weeks after Cameron County confirmed its first COVID-19 cases, there are now over a hundred residents with the novel coronavirus.   As of this article’s printing, there are 147 cases in Cameron County. So far, three Cameron County residents have died: an 81-year-old man and a 91-year-old woman living at Veranda …

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