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Nature Nook: A photo gallery

By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Want the whole story? Pick up a copy of the Port Isabel-South Padre Press, or subscribe to our E-Edition by clicking here. Tweet

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Dune Hugger: Open Letter to Beach Trashers

Special to the PRESS Dear South Padre Island Beach Trasher, Summer.  Beach Trash.  Public Beach Access. What do these three things have in common?  It’s simple they are related through a common word, respect. Summer minus respect plus beach trash equals less and less public beach access.  Memorial Day came and went and despite one …

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Letter to the Editor for 5-28-15

Special to the PRESS Loose Dogs & Clarity I agree with the sentiments of many of those individuals who wrote to PI paper and spoke of what a community is….and how citizens have responsibilities and should value their community. I think this individual has it absolutely right. Everyone does have an important responsibility to maintain their property, …

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Public comment now open on BP oil spill restoration projects

Special to the PRESS Five years after the detrimental BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, restoration retribution is near. Deepwater Horizon Trustees are now accepting public comments until Friday, June 19, 2015, on “The Draft Phase IV Early Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessments” (Draft Plan) which consists of ten proposed Early Restoration Gulf Projects, …

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Laguna Atascosa Approved for Land Acquisition Funds

Special to the PRESS The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission recently approved $58 million in funding for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners to purchase, lease or otherwise conserve more than 200,000 acres of wetland and associated upland habitats for waterfowl, shorebirds and other birds across North America.  Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, …

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Hundreds stung by jellyfish over Memorial Day weekend

By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com Approximately 475 people were strung by jellyfish and Portuguese man o’wars — also called bluebottles — over Memorial Day weekend, officials said. The number represents a staggering increase from about 275 stings reported the previous week. Many of the stings were treated by the Cameron County Beach Patrol. …

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Band Program in Excellent Shape

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Outside of athletics, the one department at Port Isabel High School that this writer has always been most interested in is the instrumental music program.  As the self-proclaimed, “Old Snare Drummer from Iowa,” I have enjoyed the football halftime performances of the marching band for many years.  I …

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Year of Accomplishment for Athletic Program

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS It was another year of accomplishment for the Port Isabel High athletic program for the 2014-’15 school year.  The Press recently sat down with Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Monty Stumbaugh to review the results and assess the state of the program. “We had a pretty good …

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UPDATE: Donations sought for funeral costs for Nahum Barragan Castañeda

By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Port Isabel Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lisa Garcia released a statement Friday afternoon shortly after news broke that the body of a missing PIISD student had been found in the Laguna Madre. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Nahum Barragan Castañeda for their loss,” …

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BREAKING: Body of missing teen found

By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Update 3:26 p.m.: Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio has confirmed that the body of a missing 14-year-old boy has been found after a search that stretched overnight and was temporarily halted due to bad weather. “The body was found a little after (2) o’clock by Texas Parks and Wildlife,” …

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