F&B Restaurant offers unique experience

By TESS FICCALIA If you are looking for a quick lunch on a Thursday afternoon, don’t go to F&B, they won’t be open. You won’t get a quick dinner either. There aren’t any baskets of fried Gulf shrimp with fries at this establishment. The owners don’t refer to F&B as a Five Star restaurant. There …

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The saga of Dune Dog, Fisher Boy, Pt. 1.

The following is the first part of a two part story which will continue next week and was written by Larry Larson. My wife Mary and I began visiting South Padre Island nearly 40 years ago, and fell in love with its nice weather, beautiful ocean views, proximity to Mexico, and the nearly 30 miles …

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Valley softball took center stage in 1941

By RENE TORRES On Dec. 7, 1941, life in the United States was interrupted by Japan and the attack on Pearl Harbor. After this point, people prepared to live with less of everything that made up their daily lives. One historian wrote: “Citizens wondered if there would be enough to eat when soldiers needed food …

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Lady Tarpons fall to Lady Eagles

By CONSTANCIO MARTINEZ, JR. Special to the PRESS This Tuesday, November 29, the Lady Tarpons hosted the Harvest Christian Academy (HCA) Eagles in a non-district matchup. From the opening buzzer, the Eagles offense proved to be too much for the Lady Tarpons as the Lady Eagles cruised to a 107-42 win. The Lady Eagles potent …

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Road renaming runs into dead end

By TONY VINDELL Special to the PRESS BROWNSVILLE—Renaming an existing road to honor a fallen U.S. Marine has run into a dead end as one of two families want to either keep the road’s name as is, while the other insist the name change is well-deserved. The Tovar family has been living on the road …

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Change made to upcoming El Paseo production

Special to the PRESS A slight change has been made to an upcoming El Paseo Arts Foundation double feature, which will now be a single feature due events involving the troupe. “The production for next week has been plagued by every type of flu virus,” said El Paseo’s Joann Evans. “I can’t remember when we …

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Street names to change

By CATHERINE DONNELLY Special to the PRESS At the Port Isabel City Council meeting on November 21, City Inspector Joshua Garza proposed that two of the streets in the preliminary plat map of phase 2 of the new Bahia Point Subdivision be changed to local sports heroes. The City Council voted unanimously to rename one …

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Mobile unit to provide veteran care

By CATHERINE DONNELLY Special to the PRESS On November 16, the Veteran’s Administration Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System and City of Port Isabel held a ribbon cutting event for the Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) at the Port Isabel Event & Cultural Center. The mobile medical unit will be used to schedule veterans for …

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Spectators to witness first lighting in 117 years

Special to the PRESS The City of Port Isabel, The Texas Historical Commission (THC) and the Port Isabel Lighthouse State Historic Site will commemorate the first official lighting of the historic lighthouse in 117 years at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 9, 2022. The THC funded and coordinated the reproduction of a Third Order Fresnel Lens …

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County jailer arrested

Special to the PRESS OLMITO—On November 16, 2022, Cameron County Sheriff Investigators executed four arrest warrants on Jose Alberto Rivas, age 34. Rivas was arrested after a tip from an inmate prompted an investigation into his behavior at the Carrizales Rucker Detention Center in Olmito. According to a statement released by the Cameron County Sheriff’s …

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