Aug 03 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Long-time Port Isabel ISD coach Robert Holland has announced his retirement from the Tarpon athletic program. Holland is a life-long resident of Port Isabel and graduated from Port Isabel High School in 1977. He became a varsity assistant coach for football in 1988 and, in 2018, completed his …
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Aug 03 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Members of the Silver Tarpon Marching Band have had a relatively easy time of it so far this summer. Now it’s about to get physical. Outdoor practices started this week and that means several hours a day will be spent in the main parking lot at the high …
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Aug 03 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS It’s that time of year. Even before football teams across the Rio Grande Valley hold their first practice sessions, high school volleyball teams are getting their first practices in. The nets are up, the volleyballs are inflated, and a lot of enthusiastic and athletic girls have shown up …
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Jul 27 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Former Silver Tarpon band member Colin Minkler is back where he started. Minkler has been assisting with summer band camp at Port Isabel High School and he thoroughly enjoys helping out any way he can. The PRESS sat down with Minkler this week and he shared his thoughts …
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Jul 27 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The bass drummer is traditionally that member of the percussion section that paces the rest of the band with a steady beat. In the Port Isabel Silver Tarpon Marching Band they do much more than that. The PRESS recently spoke with Nathanial Zurita, who is one of four …
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Jul 27 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS After several weeks of practicing in sections the Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon Marching Band has come together and is playing as a contiguous whole for the first time this week. With the first halftime show now just five weeks away things are proceeding more or less on …
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Jul 20 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS With the start of football practice now less than three weeks away the new coach for the Port Isabel Tarpons is hard at work in preparing for the first day of fall drills on Aug. 6. The Press found Jason Strunk, hired recently as the Port Isabel High …
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Jul 20 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS A band director is very much like a football coach. He is responsible for assembling a staff of assistants who can contribute their knowledge and talents towards putting a good marching band on the field come football season. Head Director of Bands for the Port Isabel Independent School …
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Jul 20 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Press visited with the Port Isabel Band Director Scott Hartsfield where he spoke about how it’s going with battery percussion and the new halftime show. Hartsfield is his own percussion specialist and clearly knows what he is doing in working with these talented kids. “It’s coming together …
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Jul 13 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS This week, for the first time this summer, the entire membership of the Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon Marching Band assembled together for practice. Percussionists reported first two weeks ago and all band members took last week off for the Fourth of July. Head Director of Bands Scott …
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