Apr 11 2015
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Port Isabel Community Center hosted a free Heath Fair Tuesday afternoon to promote general health and educate the community on health outreach opportunities available to them. Providers and representatives from Su Clinica, Hoy Healthcare Unlimited, Inc., Tu Salud Si Cuenta, Salud y Vida, Molina Healthcare, Pregnancy Resource …
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Apr 11 2015
PRESS Staff Report Holy smoke At approximately 7:34 a.m. on April 1, a police officer was dispatched to the 100 block of Port Road in reference to an unwanted subject. Upon arrival the officer made contact with the pastor of the church who stated that he no longer wanted a homeless woman staying at the …
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Apr 11 2015
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Port Isabel High Tarpon hurdler Omar Silva was back in top form last week as he won both the 110-meter and 300-meter hurdle races at the Albert Tijerina Relays in Raymondville. Silva ran cleanly in both events and his winning time of 16.03 seconds in the 110 hurdles …
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Apr 11 2015
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel High Lady Tarpons were the class of the field at last week’s Albert Tijerina Relays at Raymondville. They won a total of nine gold medals, including seven individual, and scored almost twice as many points as the second-place team to win the team title going …
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Apr 11 2015
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Port Isabel High Lady Tarpon all-around athlete Kelcie Swink will be moving to Nebraska next fall. On Monday she signed a letter of intent to attend York College on a softball scholarship. The signing took place in the Tarpon Gym at the high school with Swink’s family, coaches, …
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Apr 10 2015
Special to the PRESS Dear Editor, We want to share with our community the following news in relation to three different companies trying to establish business in The Lower Laguna Madre Area with the purpose of building terminals to process Liquefied Natural Gas, mainly for export purposes. Many of our associates and friends have been …
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Apr 07 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Part One (Click here for Part Two) Connected Coast Increasingly, access to technology is becoming the metric by which one can predict academic achievement. So much learning in today’s classrooms makes use of computers and the internet that those without access to such are finding themselves on the …
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Apr 06 2015
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com On the heels of the momentum brought in by Spring Break comes one of Mexico’s most significant holidays, Semana Santa — or Holy Week — which occurs from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. The week-long holiday typically draws a sizeable tourist crowd, and thousands are expected to funnel …
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Apr 06 2015
Special to the PRESS Welcome to the new “Dune Hugger” Column! My name is Rob Nixon and I am the Chairman of the Surfrider Foundation South Texas Chapter and Member of the Surfrider Foundation National Board of Directors. This Column will explore our coasts and issues related to them as well as explore the Surfrider …
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Apr 06 2015
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com There’s a ceramic coffee mug filled with silk flowers that sits atop an end table in my parents’ living room this time of year. It’s shaped to look like a rabbit with its floppy ears curving outward to form handles. Its almost doleful eyes look upward, while its …
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