Jul 03 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Growing up, every major holiday was always quite the affair in my family. The Fourth of July was no exception. Traditionally, everyone would gather at my grandparents’ house in Edinburg. My mom’s parents had nine kids, so by the time you got most of them, their spouses and …
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Jul 03 2015
By MARTHA McCLAIN Special to the PRESS Laguna Vista officials will be driving alleys and easements in the coming days, making personal contact with property owners in a town-wide effort to promote clean and safe backroads in the community. “Maintaining an alley free of high weeds or debris helps to minimize attractive health nuisances,” according to …
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Jul 03 2015
By MARTHA McCLAIN Special to the PRESS A planning meeting for the annual Church Bazaar at Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church is scheduled on Thursday, July 9 at 6:15 p.m. in the Parish Hall at 705 S. Longoria in Port Isabel. Volunteers are needed to participate during the Parish Bazaar. To register, call …
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Jul 03 2015
Special to the PRESS Last week, I had the fortunate opportunity to spend four days on North Carolina’s Atlantic Coast for our June Surfrider Foundation Board of Directors Meeting in Wrightsville Beach. What is unique about these meetings is that Surfrider Foundation doesn’t just have a Board Meeting where we talk business inside a conference …
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Jul 03 2015
Special to the PRESS An endangered ocelot was killed by a vehicle on State Highway 186 between Raymondville and Port Mansfield, Texas, on June 8, 2015. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service identified it as a female ocelot and the veterinarian who performed the 33necropsy confirmed the death was caused by a vehicular collision. It …
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Jul 03 2015
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon Marching Band’s percussion section is wasting no time getting ready for the upcoming season. It’s only the first week of July and already some members of the elite squad have hit the school’s music room for some early practices. The percussion section …
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Jul 03 2015
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS A new drum major, and nine members of the Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon Marching Band percussion section, all began preparations this week for the 2015 marching season. Your high school instrumental music reporter managed to catch a few of these student/musicians before practice began one day this …
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Jun 26 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com A golden glow lit up the sand on Beach Access 3 Wednesday morning as hundreds of people crowded in a horseshoe shape around a line of string suspended over the ground. They had come to witness an event special to South Padre Island: the release of newly hatched …
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Jun 26 2015
By MARTHA McCLAIN Special to the PRESS Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a measure that will halt the City of Brownsville’s aggressive strip annexation practices and protect unincorporated communities in Cameron County from future land-grabs. Local officials are elated at the action and hail the action as a David versus Goliath victory, with the …
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Jun 26 2015
By ALLEY COWGILL Port Isabel-South Padre Press ads@portisabelsouthpadre.com Three months after the discovery of the body of Edinburg resident Jose Francisco Palacios Paz, 33, near South Padre Island authorities have made several arrests in the case. In what one investigator called one of the most ghastly murders in the Rio Grande Valley since Mark Kilroy in …
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