Oct 02 2014
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS Members of the Port Isabel Community Garden met Thursday evening to plant the seeds of a new season. The garden is the first of its kind in the area and is open to all locals who are interested in learning and practicing basic gardening skills. It is located at …
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Oct 02 2014
By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS Family members, loved ones, friends and fellow musicians gathered at Parrot Eyes on South Padre Island Sunday afternoon to pay tribute to their friend, Matt Theiss – a long-time local resident and musician who recently passed away at the age of 51. A photographic montage of Matt throughout his …
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Oct 02 2014
By MARINA WISE-HERRING Special to the PRESS Port Isabel High School offers a variety of extracurricular activities, one of which is DECA, a worldwide organization that prepares high school and college students for careers in marketing, hospitality, finance and management. By being a member of DECA, students receive a DECA pin and issues to DECA’s official …
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Oct 02 2014
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS Six weeks ago, local wood and sand sculptor Andy Hancock brought new life to the Island in the form of five carved palm tree posts at Franke Plaza. When American Electric Power Company (AEP) wanted to cut down the tall palm trees that had begun to interfere with power …
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Sep 25 2014
Seen are various images from festivities and events surrounding the ground breaking ceremony of SpaceX, the commercial launch site to be constructed at Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville. The impact of SpaceX is expected to benefit the surrounding communities, including the Laguna Madre and Harlingen-San Benito-Brownsville metropolitan areas. Pictured in this gallery are an artist’s …
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Sep 25 2014
By JACOB LOPEZ Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com BROWNSVILLE – Visitors to the Rio Grande Valley have long described the culture shock experienced at the border communities within as an out of this world experience. It’s a statement that can now be taken literally as Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) broke ground Monday, Sept. 22, for its …
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Sep 25 2014
By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS With the room packed with state and local politicians and officials, business and real estate representatives, and local residents, the ballroom at the Hilton Garden Inn on South Padre Island was filled to capacity Monday evening for the celebration of the groundbreaking ceremony for the SpaceX rocket launching facility …
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Sep 25 2014
By BROOKE WILKINSON Special to the PRESS An event welcoming the arrival of SpaceX was held Monday, Sept. 22, at the Hilton Garden Inn Beach Resort. More than 100 businesses along with the community attended the event. Many gathered to listen to how SpaceX will bring many job opportunities and contribute millions of dollars into the …
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Sep 25 2014
By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS Layla Jean Mahan, a third grader from Garriga Elementary School in Port Isabel, was recently selected as the winner from her school for her entry in an art contest sponsored by SpaceX, the privately-owned rocket launching company that is building a facility on Boca Chica Beach in Brownsville. The …
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Sep 25 2014
Special to the PRESS BROWNSVILLE – Jose Martinez, 23, a master’s student in physics at The University of Texas at Brownsville, grew up in Brownsville and could not imagine the day the southernmost point in Texas could be transformed into another Space Coast. Martinez and other students from UTB’s Department of Physics and Astronomy played …
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