Mar 06 2020
By Constancio Martinez, Jr. Special to the PRESS This past week, the Port Isabel Lady Tarpons softball team participated in the 20th Annual Port Isabel / Los Fresnos Tournament. The 10-team, round-robin style tournament was played over a 3-day span, Thursday, February 27, through Saturday, February 29. Port Isabel came out of the tourney …
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Mar 06 2020
By Larry Gage Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpons were eliminated from the 2020 Texas high school basketball playoffs, 77-47, at the hands of the Pleasanton Eagles Tuesday night, March 3, in Kingsville. The Eagles came in with 33 wins. They controlled the opening tip and scored first on a free throw. Port …
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Mar 06 2020
By Constancio Martinez, Jr. Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Boys powerlifting team traveled to Brownsville to participate in the Eagles’ last qualifier meet hosted at Hanna High School. The meet consisted of 14 schools and 110 individual lifters. The Edinburg Economedes team …
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Mar 06 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Enrique Saldaña is a month into instructing SPI BJJ & Fitness’ new gymnastics class, after starting on February 1. Saldaña started gymnastics at eleven-years-old, in Brownsville, under Joe Vela, owner of KMJV Gymnastics in Port Isabel, which has since closed. At 16, Saldaña began instructing at Vela’s gymnastics academy in Brownsville, …
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Mar 04 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The results below are the unofficial, uncanvassed figures on voter turnout and cast ballots in Cameron County for the U.S. Presidential election. Figures show the top three persons based on number of votes they received. A full, unofficial list of Cameron County’s election results and early voting turnout can be found …
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Feb 28 2020
By Larry Gage Special to the PRESS Port Isabel Lady Tarpon track and field athlete Madison Ramos was golden at the Albert Tijerina Relays last Friday, February 21, in Raymondville. She won first place in the high jump with a season-best leap of five feet even. Her goal is to set a new personal record …
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Feb 28 2020
By Larry Gage Special to the PRESS Mac Strunk already seems to be hitting his stride this track season. The senior sprinter for the Port Isabel High track team won gold in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes at the Albert Tijerina Relays at Raymondville last Friday, February 21. Strunk’s time in the 100-meters was 11.22 …
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Feb 28 2020
By David Lee Zamora Special to the Parade Based on the true story of William Hart Pitsenbarger’s fellow Vietnam War veterans and family’s thirty-year long fight to get him the Medal of Honor for his brave service during the Vietnam War, “The Last Full Measure” is a heartbreaking, yet great, film, Pitsenbarger was a United …
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Feb 28 2020
By Steve Hathcock The oldest records of beer brewing date back 6000 years to the time of the Sumerians and the ancient cities of Babylon and Ur. Though they probably discovered the fermentation process by chance, (perhaps a piece of bread or grain became wet and a short time later began to ferment) they quickly …
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Feb 28 2020
Angie Gamez Special to the Press The Children’s Museum of Brownsville (CMB) brought its LEGO Mini Makers Studio engineering activity to first and fifth graders at Derry Elementary on February 20 and Garriga Elementary on February 21. The program’s purpose is to “spark an interest in Science and Engineering with a fun, hands-on, fully participatory …
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