Jul 27 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com If you’ve been outside during the daytime at all this past week, then you’ll have realized we are well and truly into the dog days of summer. There’s only one word one can use to describe the weather: hot. Actually, I can think of a few others: sweltering, …
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Jul 27 2018
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS Mr. Hathcock, I found a shell while vacationing last September on South Padre Island. I was very surprised to find it in an unbroken condition. My husband says it was probably bought at a shell shop because of its condition. Is this shell normally found on Padre Island? Thank …
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Jul 20 2018
[slideshow_deploy id=’20085′] By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Monday, July 23 will mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Dolly, which made landfall north of the City of South Padre Island at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23, 2008. It was the first hurricane to make a direct hit on the Rio Grande Valley in …
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Jul 20 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Warm temperatures and calm seas are the perfect breeding ground for what is perhaps one of the most irritating scourges of the sea: red tide, a naturally occurring algae that occasionally proliferates in high enough concentrations to become a literal irritant to people, and a death knell for …
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Jul 20 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com “They were cute and awesome!” exclaimed young Jamison Nelson, 6, of Spring Branch shortly after several dozen Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings were released on South Padre Island Monday morning. “It was awesome because I’d never seen one do this before up close,” Jamison said. “I’d only seen …
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Jul 20 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Port Isabel Capital Project Planning Committee met Tuesday to continue discussions regarding the prioritization of several capital improvement projects. The committee agreed to a number of additional street improvement projects, and considered removing from their priority list a project aimed at improving the City’s park facilities and …
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Jul 20 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com What’s the big deal about a sign? A lot, depending on whom you ask. Two weeks after the Port Isabel Board of Adjustments tabled a request for a variance to erect an electronic sign for an emergency medical facility that’s proposing to locate in the historic district the …
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Jul 20 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com After gathering input from its elementary school teachers, and observing the results of a pilot program, Point Isabel ISD staff recommended the continued use of an online learning program called Imagine Learning during a meeting of the Point Isabel ISD Board of Trustees Tuesday night. The online learning …
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Jul 20 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS With the start of football practice now less than three weeks away the new coach for the Port Isabel Tarpons is hard at work in preparing for the first day of fall drills on Aug. 6. The Press found Jason Strunk, hired recently as the Port Isabel High …
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Jul 20 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS A band director is very much like a football coach. He is responsible for assembling a staff of assistants who can contribute their knowledge and talents towards putting a good marching band on the field come football season. Head Director of Bands for the Port Isabel Independent School …
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