Mar 23 2018
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS I remember that day clearly. A tiny silvery dot closely followed by two straight white parallel lines, streaked across the brilliant turquoise blue sky on its final approach to the airport in Brownsville. Looking toward the Gulf I could see that the surf was flat and the beach sand …
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Mar 16 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Well, is it spring or is it still winter? It’s a little hard to tell this year despite the arrival of Texas Week on South Padre Island. The first couple of days of the infamous Spring Break party week were marred by chilly weather and even a little …
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Mar 16 2018
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS This week’s column was inspired by the following query to the editor concerning a mysterious and gruesome discovery made along the shores of Padre Island over 140 years ago. Corpus Christi, Texas, April 5, 1870 To the Editor of the Picayune: Sir,—Please find enclosed an old Spanish coin, one …
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Mar 16 2018
Special to the PRESS The Museums of Port Isabel and the Laguna Madre Museum Foundation are proud to present its “Telling Our Stories” Series of 2018 on Thursday, March 22, at 7 p.m. at the Port Isabel Event & Cultural Center, 309 E. Railroad Ave. Leo “Speck” Sanders married into the prominent shrimping family of …
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Mar 09 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Welcome, Spring Breakers, to the best vacation spot this side of heaven! Welcome to sunny South Padre Island and the Rio Grande Valley. If you really want to have an incredible Spring Break experience, you need to enjoy the Island the way we locals do. First of all, …
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Mar 09 2018
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS Vicki and Kevin Cody of the Fort Worth were on an adventure….. Once they arrived at the eastern end of Highway 4 they turned south and drove along Boca Chica Beach toward the Rio Grande. Along the way Vicki happened to notice several piles of flat stones lying off …
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Mar 02 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Well, we’ve had weeks of cold weather, followed by a few days of Indian summer, followed by a few more weeks of cold weather. And then fog. Lingering, day-long fog has plagued the Laguna Madre for so long that I’ve gone from loving the novelty of grounded clouds …
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Mar 02 2018
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS There are quite a variety of sea beans, or drift seeds, to be found on South Padre’s shores. In fact, Padre Island is considered the best sea bean collecting beach along the entire Gulf Coast region. Most of them come from trees and vines that grow along tropical shores …
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Feb 23 2018
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS Every year, shelling is a past time of thousands of people who visit South Padre Island. But there are other jewels to be found along the seashore. Although sea-beans have been washing onto beaches for thousands of years, most beachcombers are unaware of their origins. Most true sea-beans (numerous …
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Feb 16 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Almost exactly one year ago, I used this weekly column to explore and explain some of the more mundane nuts and bolts of newspaper reporting. I wrote about how a small town paper like ours is a jack-of-all-trades sort of enterprise. We cover breaking news, local government, sports, …
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