Dec 31 2015
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS It had been over a month since the Port Isabel Tarpons basketball team played a home game. Tuesday night the Tarpons took on a Brownsville Frontier Academy team they’d previously beaten at their place, 66-63. Port Isabel won again, 44-38, in what may have been the most exciting …
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Dec 31 2015
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Lady Tarpons hoops squad will return to district play this Saturday after competing in this week’s Roy Williams Holiday Tournament in Corpus Christi. The district is going back to a scheduling plan, previously tried for a season, in which the boys and girls basketball teams …
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Dec 24 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com With his grandmother helping him to stand, little Alton Johnson immediately gravitated towards a pair of Ford trucks on off-road tires. Soon, he was sitting on the ground happily playing with them while a mountain of toys towered over him just feet away. The scene was the happy …
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Dec 24 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Port Isabel Police Department toy drive was a great success, said Chief of Police Gualberto “Wally” Gonzalez. “The toy drive was as successful as it has been for the last 20 years,” Gonzalez said Monday. “We gave out close to 400 (toys),” he said. The police department …
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Dec 24 2015
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS Port Isabel residents are encouraged to start a healthy new year by joining Texas A&M AgriLife in planting fruit and vegetables on December 28 at 3 p.m. at the Port Isabel Community garden located across the street from the Boys and Girls Club. With the wind and rain …
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Dec 24 2015
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS This month’s Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee meeting heated up when open discussion began regarding the inclusion of a skate park at the new John. L. Tompkins Park on South Padre Island. The new City park has been in the works for many years, with a comprehensive park …
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Dec 24 2015
By PETE BANDA Special to the PRESS reporter@sbnewspaper.com In just about one week, the firearms laws in Texas will be undergoing a significant change. Starting Jan. 1, 2016 licensed gun owners will be able to carry a weapon openly as long as it’s in a holster under their arm or on their hip. Since the announcement, the …
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Dec 24 2015
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS This year, the South Padre Island Keep SPI Beautiful Committee (KSPIB) broadened their efforts and began to focus on collaboration with like-minded groups in the area like Respeta Tu Playa and the Surfrider Foundation. This month, KSPIB agreed to support Sea Turtle, Inc. in their grant application to …
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Dec 24 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com In 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon asked her father if Santa Claus was real. I’m sure this is a question many parents face with some apprehension. Virginia’s father, Dr. Philip O’Hanlon, suggested she pose the question as a letter to the editor in New York City newspaper, The Sun, …
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Dec 24 2015
Special to the PRESS Dear Editor, I recently read a nationally syndicated column about terrorism in the USA that I thought made a number of good points. I quote a number of them. “The bipartisan commission that investigated the 9/11 attacks conceded the primary driving force for Islamist terrorism was anger at the U.S.-led foreign …
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