Jan 03 2013
Special to the Parade An intriguing film festival is being launched on Padre Island by the El Paseo Arts Foundation (EPAF) on Tuesday. It will feature films made by and in developing and third world countries as much for their own audiences as for other countries. These are award winning new releases discovered recently by …
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Dec 27 2012
By RAY QUIROGA Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com It seems as though Keith DiSantis was born to love music. Currently a full time music teacher for Harlingen CISD, DiSantis is equally comfortable playing his saxophone before a crowd or in a recording studio laying down tacks with renowned musicians. This past summer, for example, DiSantis …
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Dec 27 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the PRESS It has been over two months, and investigators still have no answers regarding the discovery of the three corpses found within a two-week window in late September and October. The first corpse was identified as a man named Jeremy Tyrone Eyster, 35, whose body washed to shore …
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Dec 27 2012
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com A local professional photographer has passed away this week. Richard Stockton provided professional photography services in the Rio Grande Valley. Stockton’s business, located at South Padre Island, provided many services including commercial photography, portraits on the beach, weddings, video, film processing and printing, 35mm and 120mm film and digital media. …
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Dec 27 2012
Special to the PRESS Ross Stanley, manager of Central Power and Light Company, organized the Port Isabel Rotary Club in 1936 by soliciting 19 charter members for their first meeting at the Queen Isabella Inn. Andy Bowie, an employee of Central Power and Light Company in San Benito, came to the first meeting to explain …
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Dec 20 2012
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com A structure fire Thursday morning has left three families in Port Isabel homeless. Port Isabel Fire Marshall Rodrigo Garcia said the fire department received a call at 8:43 a.m. regarding the structure fire located at 308 S. Garcia St. He said the first responders arrived five minutes after the call …
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Dec 20 2012
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Laguna Madre area as local municipalities continue hosting holiday festivities. On South Padre Island, the Christmas parade had 44 entries from all around the county. The event was a part of the 12-plus Days of Christmas organized by the …
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Dec 20 2012
By RAY QUIROGA Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com A Derry Elementary School student will more than likely think twice before pulling a stunt similar to the one he allegedly pulled late last week. According to Port Isabel Fire Marshal Rodrigo Garcia, at about 9:37 a.m. last Friday, an 11-year-old Derry student, who was being escorted …
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Dec 20 2012
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday, December 14, sent shockwaves throughout the United States that were felt in the Laguna Madre area. Point Isabel Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Lisa Garcia said the tragic events that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut last week put …
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Dec 20 2012
Special to the PRESS BROWNSVILLE – Coast Guard crews seized 151 illegally caught red snappers, Saturday, and the catch will be used to feed sea turtles. A lancha and Mexican fishermen were initially found adrift in the waters of southern Texas by a good Samaritan aboard a fishing boat. The good Samaritan attempted to assist …
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