Apr 13 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Point Isabel Independent Student District (PI-ISD) is expanding more of its technology and counseling resources as its students and staff continue to experience the 2020 school year away from the district’s campus. After calls from parents, PI-ISD is now providing more Apple iPad devices, for its elementary school students, and Google …
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Apr 09 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com A contractor employee from Chenega Facilities Management, a subsidiary of an Anchorage, Alaksa, based Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) with a San Antonio, Texas, office, who worked at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas, has tested positive for novel coronavirus COVID-19. The positive test was confirmed by Vice President …
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Apr 09 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Three weeks after Cameron County confirmed its first COVID-19 cases, there are now over a hundred residents with the novel coronavirus. As of this article’s printing, there are 147 cases in Cameron County. So far, three Cameron County residents have died: an 81-year-old man and a 91-year-old woman living at Veranda …
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Apr 09 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Port Isabel Police Department (PIPD) will begin a check point stop at 2:00 p.m. today, stopping traffic from Texas Hwy. 100 and Texas Hwy. 48. The check point will be acting daily, with no end date declared by PIPD. PIPD Chief Robert Lopez said the department was waiting for an approval …
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Apr 06 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Two Port Isabel residents have tested positive for novel coronavirus COVID-19, according to Cameron County Public Health Department and the City of Port Isabel. The residents are two men, ages 62 and 64, according to a press release from the City of Port Isabel. One of the residents is self-isolating at …
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Apr 05 2020
By Larry Gage Special to the PRESS He was only here for two years, but if any football coach that Port Isabel High has ever had put the program back on the path to playoff contention it is Jason Strunk. He arrived in Port Isabel with his family that summer of 2018, weeks after the …
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Apr 05 2020
By M. Kathy Raines Special to the PRESS Painted buntings don’t know about the coronavirus. Oblivious to our fears and “shelter in place” orders, they, along with other exhausted, migrating birds, are stopping in South Texas in April and early May to rest and feed before flying northward, where they will merrily mate and nest. …
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Apr 05 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Like many police departments across Cameron County, Port Isabel Police Department (PIPD) began increasing enforcement of Cameron County’s shelter-in-place order on Monday, March 30, trying to curb the amount of traffic in Port Isabel and South Padre Island. PIPD will now be randomly stopping cars in Port Isabel, asking where they …
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Apr 05 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Point Isabel Independent School District (PI-ISD), now with all of its campuses closed for another month, is making changes to its response programs as novel coronavirus COVID-19 spreads throughout Texas. Texas Governor Abbott extended a previous executive order closing all Texas schools to May 4. Abbott’s initial executive order closed all …
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Apr 03 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Port Isabel-South Padre Press and our sister publication, the San Benito News, have been reporting the COVID-19 pandemic as it spreads throughout the Rio Grande Valley, namely on the precautions Cameron County, San Benito, Laguna Vista, Port Isabel and South Padre Island have taken. Both newsrooms are dependent …
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