Oct 21 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Earlier this week I had a late afternoon meeting on South Padre Island. As the meeting began to draw to a close, I couldn’t help but notice the increasingly golden tones of sunlight that pierced through the cracks in the blinds at the back of the room. The …
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Oct 21 2016
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS Mr. Hathcock, you wrote about the Civic Center on Padre Island last week…..can you tell me anything about an old hotel that was a casino? Thank you for your stories Ellen Smith Hi Ellen, One of the first buildings constructed at Tarpon Beach in 1908, (Today’s Isla Blanca Park) …
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Oct 21 2016
By JAVIER GONZALEZ Special to the PRESS By late September migrating Monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains coming from as far north as Canada have reached the “Texas Funnel” on their way south to wintering grounds in the Oyamel Fir Tree forests in the mountains of central Mexico in the state of Michoacán. Their annual …
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Oct 14 2016
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS The great amount of wealth flowing from the mines in her colonies, presented the Spaniards with an unusual logistical problem. Expanding an empire called for commerce with other countries. (It would be four hundred years before the Euro-dollar would be conceived). A way had to be developed to make …
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Oct 14 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com I think it’s true that many of us are pretty active on social media. From the original social network — Facebook — to Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, we all find ways to stay connected. It’s been 12 years since Mark Zuckerburg created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room. …
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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 STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS “Is this some kind of error?” Ellen Nichols asked in an email she sent me a few years back. The Wisconsin native found the oddly shaped bottle near the mouth of the Rio Grande just after Hurricane Emily stormed ashore in Mexico. This peculiar bottle had a rounded base …
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Sep 30 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Have you been enjoying the rain this week? I know I have. Finally, it’s not hot enough to bake cookies inside my car, which is how hot it’s felt for far too long. I remember leaving the office one day last week to grab a quick lunch at …
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Sep 23 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com I don’t think there’s a single person in the Laguna Madre region who doesn’t realize just how important our environment is — and just how fragile it is. One of the best parts about living here is seeing how much my fellow residents care about the native life …
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