Sep 06 2019
By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS The South Padre Island City Council voted Wednesday evening to repeal and replace a controversial ordinance dealing with sound emitting devices as well as adopting the tax rate for 2019. Shortly after presenting proclamations for National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and National Food Safety Month, the SPI City …
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Aug 30 2019
By DAVID LEE ZAMORA Special to the Parade Where’d You Go, Bernadette, based on the novel by Maria Semple, follows Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett), a famed architect turned stay-at-home mother who finds any human interaction with anybody outside of her family challenging and stressful. All this builds up on the family, eventually leading to her …
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Aug 30 2019
Rio History: Bottle Cleaning By Steve Hathcock Matt found a bunch of old bottles while renovating an old building in his town’s historic district. “Some of them are real dirty,” he wrote, “have you ever written about how to clean them? Also, does it hurt the value of the bottle to clean it?” “Matt,” I …
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Aug 30 2019
By M. KATHY RAINES Special to the Parade Relax, it’s not a cottonmouth. Those venomous water snakes, you’ll be pleased to know, live no further south than Corpus Christi. No, that long, thick, brownish snake swimming in or basking along one of the Rio Grande Valley’s resaca is likely one of our benign and quite …
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Aug 30 2019
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel High girls’ volleyball team went down three sets to one in a non-district match Tuesday night at Tarpon Gym. The Lady Bulldogs won by the scores of 19-25, 25-20, 2522, 26-24. It was close almost all the way and, even though they lost, the Lady …
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Aug 30 2019
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpons closed out the scrimmage season by outscoring the Santa Rosa Warriors in both halves of last Thursday’s scrimmage at Santa Rosa. The defense was particularly effective as the Warriors managed only one score on the night. That was a touchdown in the second half, …
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Aug 30 2019
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Not many freshmen get moved up to Varsity at the very start of the high school volleyball season. Layli Mata is one of the few to get the nod since Julie Breedlove took the Port Isabel head coaching job. “I needed a setter, number one,” Breed-love said this …
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Aug 30 2019
By WENDY VAN DEN BOOGERD Special to the PRESS No matter what ails you, Greg Luna is the person you’ll want to see. Located at 112 West Queen Isabella Ste C in Port Isabel, Luna Medical Clinic operated by Gregory Luna, P.A., delivers personalized care, along with compassion and a knowledge base that is sure …
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Aug 30 2019
By PAMELA CODY Special to the Press The South Padre Island Convention & Visitors Advisory Board met Wednesday morning, to discuss and review fall and spring break marketing and advertising plans as well as approve funding for special events. Before Toni Ellard of the Atkins Group presented their extensive media plan for the period of …
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Aug 30 2019
By PAMELA CODY Special to the Press Port Isabel City Commissioners closed the final public hearings on the proposed 2019 – 2020 budget and tax rate, with City Manager Jared Hockema showing a budget surplus at Tuesday night’s meeting. “Each day, we’ve been making small adjustments to get us closer to the black. At this …
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