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Port Isabel girls powerlifting team earns gold at Yellow Jacket Invitational
Port Isabel High School’s powerlifting teams. Photo courtesy of PIHS. By Constancio Martinez, Jr. Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Girls powerlifting team attended the Yellow...
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Lady Tarpons blank Santa Rosa Warriors, 15-0
Alanna Zermeno up for bat during Port Isabel’s game against Santa Rosa on February 24. Photo by Constancio Martinez, Jr. By Constancio Martinez, Jr. Special to the PRESS This past Monday, February...
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CMB brings engineering concepts to Garriga and Derry Elementary
Reina Salinas, principal of Garriga Elementary, tests her car with other fifth grade students. Photo by Angie Gamez. Angie Gamez Special to the Press The Children’s Museum of Brownsville (CMB) brought...
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Rio History: A Brief History of Beer
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...
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Movie Review: The Last Full Measure
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...
View ArticleDouble Gold for Strunk at Raymondville
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...
View ArticleRamos Tops in High Jump at Raymondville
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...
View ArticleCameron County primary results available
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...
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Saldaña brings gymnastics back to Port Isabel
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...
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PI powerlifting team picks up 2 silver medals at last qualifier
Port Isabel High School’s power lifting teams. Photo courtesy of PI-ISD. By Constancio Martinez, Jr. Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Boys powerlifting team traveled to...
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Tarpon basketball playoff season ends in 3rd round
Port Isabel High School’s boys varsity basketball team after their loss against the Plesanton Eagles on Tuesday, March 3. The game was the third round of the Tarpons’ playoff season. Historically, the...
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Lady Tarpons host Port Isabel/Los Fresnos Tournament
Whitney Zaloski (#8) at bat during Port Isabel’s softball game against Brownsville Pace on February 28. Photo by Constancio Martinez, Jr. By Constancio Martinez, Jr. Special to the PRESS This past...
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Creatures Among Us: The Scrawled Cowfish—a Charming Gulf Resident
A scrawled cowfish at the UTRGV Coastal Studies Lab. Photo by M. Kathy Raines. By M. Kathy Raines Special to the PARADE The sloping forehead of this multi-dimensional fish ends in a tiny, puckered “o”...
View ArticleLady Tarpon track working towards district
By Larry Gage Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Lady Tarpons track athletes continue their efforts to put together a complete team in time for next month’s district meet. They may have been lost in...
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Paragraphs bookstore’s final chapter celebrated
Friends of Paragraphs bookstore mingle during the store’s last opening day, February 29. Photo by Gaige Davila. By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com After three leap...
View ArticleSpring break continues as Texas offices, PI-ISD prepare for ‘pandemic’...
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Spring break continues on South Padre Island, amid a pandemic outbreak of COVID-19, a novel coronavirus that causes respiratory illness similar to the...
View ArticleUIL suspends all sanctioned contests
By Constancio Martinez, Jr. Special to the PRESS On Thursday, March 12, the University Interscholastic League (UIL) had released a statement that the UIL Basketball Tournament, CX Debate State...
View ArticleBREAKING: Judge Treviño suspends all county-sponsored events amid COVID-19...
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño has suspended all Cameron County-sponsored functions or events for the next 14 days. The order specifically addresses...
View ArticleBREAKING: Governor Abbott suspends STAAR exam for 2019-2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Texas Governor Greg Abbott has cancelled the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exam for the 2019-2020 school year. Abbott waived...
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H-E-B, Walmart changing hours, limiting visitors after increased grocery demand
HEB in Port Isabel on March 16. A makeshift barrier of shopping carts is made to guide shoppers to line themselves into the store. Photo by Gaige Davila. By Gaige Davila...
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