Oct 07 2016
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS After having to withdraw from last week’s marching contest at Rio Hondo the Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon Marching Band is ready for their first competition of the 2016 marching season. This Saturday (Oct. 8) the band is off to Mercedes for the Queen City Marching Contest, and …
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Oct 07 2016
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The defensive backs are the last line of defense for any football team. They are known as the defensive secondary, but they are anything but secondary in importance when it comes to stopping an opponent’s passing attack. The Press visited with some of the Tarpon secondary men this …
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Oct 07 2016
By JOE HAMBY Special to the PRESS She is a loyal, dedicated Port Isabel School District employee who has served as assistant athletic administrator and dropout prevention specialist for a number of years. Her name is Laura Orive. Port Isabel fans may have seen Orive on the sidelines during football games or at other sporting events. …
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Oct 07 2016
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS Art and June Magnusson were doing some metal detecting on the flats just north of the Convention Centre when Art’s toe came in contact with a heavy piece of corroded metal. About three inches long and of an unusual shape, the object defied Art and June’s efforts to identify …
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Oct 07 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Sand. Made from mile-high mountains worn down to near-microscopic grains by wind, water and time; made from the fragments of shells and corals, flotsam and jetsam; made from countless other unknown ingredients. Strange, then, to think that this deconstruction of things from mighty and large to tiny and …
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Sep 30 2016
By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS Scores of volunteers showed up bright and early last Saturday morning at Jim’s Pier on South Padre Island to participate in the city’s launching of a bayside beach cleanup. Susan Dalton, chairperson of the city committee Keep SPI Beautiful, conducted a safety briefing before sending people out on …
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Sep 30 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Join the City of Port Isabel as it celebrates its 6th Annual Pachanga in the Park this Saturday, Oct. 1 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. The family friendly affair will take place at Washington Park, located at 156 W. Madison St. and will include dozens of booths …
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Sep 30 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Members of the South Padre Island Chamber of Commerce were treated to a presentation on Texas tourism during the Chamber’s quarterly public affairs luncheon at the Isla Grand Hotel Tuesday. The State’s tourism director, Brad Smyth, with the Economic Development and Tourism Division of the Office of the …
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Sep 30 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com This coming week, Oct. 2 – 8, is Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) and one woman is determined to spread the word, raising awareness of mental illness while erasing the stigma around it. That woman is clinical psychologist Dr. Marsha Sargeant, who recently moved to the Laguna Madre …
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Sep 30 2016
By KEVIN RICH Special to the PRESS Discussion regarding South Padre Island’s designated color palette for buildings dominated the SPI City Council meeting on Sept. 21. After lengthy discussion, Council approved a motion to have the City’s Development Standards Review Task Force re-examine the Island’s designated color palette in the Form Based Code. SPI Development Director …
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