Apr 24 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Editor’s note: This article will be updated as more information becomes available. County parks, boat ramps and religious services in Cameron County are now allowed to operate, with restrictions. Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr. announced the lifted restrictions during an April 24 press conference. The new executive order has been …
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Apr 24 2020
By Steve Hathcock The ability to make fire by rubbing two sticks together was arguably the single greatest accomplishment made by our forefathers. The principle is simple: one wooden stick, called the drill or saw, was twisted or rubbed against another, known as the hearth. If done properly, enough heat is created to ignite dried …
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Apr 24 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The City of South Padre Island is planning to cut at least $2,074,000 from their budget, preparing for an uncertain summer season after the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected the tourism and hospitality industry in March and April. “We’re just trying to stay ahead of the curve,” Patrick McNulty, mayor of South …
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Apr 24 2020
Biological opinions on LNG export plants in question By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Sierra Club and Defenders of Wildlife environmentalist groups filed lawsuits challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) biological opinions and incidental take statements granted to Houston, Texas, based Annova LNG and Rio Grande LNG, owned by NextDecade. The two liquefied natural …
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Apr 20 2020
By M. Kathy Raines Special to the PRESS Mirroring traits of the quintessential Texan, the nine-banded armadillo is “a hardy, pioneering creature,” one possessing “deep respect and need for the land, the ability to change and adapt, and a fierce, undying love for freedom,” according to 1995’s Texas legislature. Armadillos’ migration to Texas roughly coincides …
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Apr 17 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Jen Mulhern started her Jenuine Cello solo project on her porch when she moved to South Padre Island at the beginning of 2017, performing on Facebook Live to build a local audience. From there, Mulhern played regularly on the Island and in Brownsville and Harlingen, whether at Painted Marlin, Dodici, Carlito’s …
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Apr 17 2020
By Steve Hathcock A woman called me the other day to tell me about her recent beachcombing trip to the mouth of the Rio Grande River. While exploring in the mudflats that lie directly north of the riverbank, she found shards of glass and several unbroken bottles. “One of the bottles is very odd” she …
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Apr 17 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com All Texas schools will remain closed for the rest of the 2019-2020 academic year, as novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues to spread throughout Texas. At Point Isabel Independent School District (PI-ISD), instruction will continue. PI-ISD’s food and technology distribution programs will continue until May 28, the last day of the 2019-2020 academic …
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Apr 17 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com A small, red cooler in the Golf Course neighborhood of Laguna Vista has become a welcome sign of relief for many needing face coverings. Dixie Jo Cullens, a Laguna Vista resident for the last two years, has made cotton face masks for the last month and a half, using the Center …
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Apr 13 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com We’re wandering in a well-lit room. We being any of us taking the COVID-19 pandemic seriously. In that well-lit room, there’s an elephant we can see clearly, the gravity of the contemporary world’s first global cataclysm, screaming as we go from the rooms’ four corners: shopping at H-E-B in ill-fitting masks, …
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