Mar 05 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Winter Storm Uri’s damage seems to be long gone, but anyone driving on FM 510 towards San Benito has seen otherwise. Countless groves of citrus trees in Bayview died in the aftermath of a storm that brought Laguna Madre area temperatures below freezing. With spring here, the usually green groves are …
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Mar 05 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk wants to incorporate Boca Chica Village, into a new city named Starbase, Texas. Musk alluded to the incorporation inquiry on his Twitter account this week, just before SpaceX’s SN10 rocket launched and landed upright on Mar. 3. The rocket exploded on its launch pad minutes …
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Mar 01 2021
By Gaige Davila Los Fresnos, Texas, may be the last place anyone would expect to find moonshine, but it’s there, and it’s presence is becoming more known. Jerrod Leon Henry, owner and master distiller of Rio Grande Distillery, makes Magic Valley Moonshine from his storefront on Highway 100 in between Laguna Vista and Los Fresnos …
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Feb 26 2021
By Robert Lewis Special to the PRESS Wow, was that one heck of a storm. I have spent today, Saturday Feb. 20, unwrapping plants, removing the Plumerias and Desert Rose out of the garage, picking up plastic sheeting and bed sheets and trying to get everything in the yard to not look like a freezing …
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Feb 26 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPWD) biologists are assessing a large-scale fish kill across the Texas coast after a cold front froze the state. In the Laguna Madre, TPWD biologists are currently assessing the freeze’s impact on game and foraging fish and were not available for …
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Feb 26 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Immediately after temperatures rose after last week’s freeze, the Laguna Madre’s cities and Point Isabel Independent School District (PI-ISD) came to aid. With school cancelled for the entirety of last week, and portions of the Laguna Madre area still without power, PI-ISD hand delivered meals to …
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Feb 26 2021
Curated by Steve Hathcock 30.05 CRIMINAL TRESPASS OF A HABITATION: On February 15th, 2021 at approximately 2 p.m., officers responded to the 100 block of East Ling Street in reference to possible trespassing. A male subject was issued a written criminal trespass warning and was advised to leave the location. A person commits an offense …
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Feb 26 2021
By Larry Gage Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel High girls’ track program is off and running with a delayed start for the 2021 season due to last week’s onslaught of unpleasant weather. The Tarpon Relays, to have been held at P.I.’s own Tarpon Stadium last Saturday, had to be canceled. Next up on …
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Feb 24 2021
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com A second mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic is coming to the Laguna Madre this Friday. According to a City of Port Isabel press release, 500 vaccines will be available for Port Isabel, South Padre Island and Laguna Vista residents at Port Isabel High School on Friday, Feb. 26. Each of the cities …
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Feb 23 2021
By Larry Gage Special to the PRESS Round One is in the books and the Port Isabel Tarpons made it through with a 73-55 win over the Robstown Cotton Pickers in their bi-district playoff game Tuesday night at Falfurrias. Both sides came to play and it was another of the fast-paced, hard-fought games of …
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