Dec 01 2022
By CATHERINE DONNELLY Special to the PRESS On November 16, the Veteran’s Administration Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System and City of Port Isabel held a ribbon cutting event for the Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) at the Port Isabel Event & Cultural Center. The mobile medical unit will be used to schedule veterans for …
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Dec 01 2022
Special to the PRESS The City of Port Isabel, The Texas Historical Commission (THC) and the Port Isabel Lighthouse State Historic Site will commemorate the first official lighting of the historic lighthouse in 117 years at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 9, 2022. The THC funded and coordinated the reproduction of a Third Order Fresnel Lens …
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Dec 01 2022
Special to the PRESS OLMITO—On November 16, 2022, Cameron County Sheriff Investigators executed four arrest warrants on Jose Alberto Rivas, age 34. Rivas was arrested after a tip from an inmate prompted an investigation into his behavior at the Carrizales Rucker Detention Center in Olmito. According to a statement released by the Cameron County Sheriff’s …
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Nov 17 2022
By SHELDON MOORE Special to the PRESS Laguna Vista is seeing a shift in those who are filling certain city positions and is also looking into ways to improve its public library. The Laguna Vista Town Council held its regular monthly meeting on Wednesday evening, Nov. 9, 2022. When Mayor Michael Carter called the meeting …
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Nov 17 2022
Special to the PRESS More than 500 birders from all over the country and world flocked to the 29th Annual Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival held last week, Nov. 9 -13 in Harlingen, Texas. Although the festival is based in the mid-valley, it offers birding tours, led by expert birding guides, to all corners of …
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Nov 17 2022
By ALEXANDREA BAILEY editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Two South Padre Island staples, Sea Turtle Inc. and The Whites of Texas, are coming together to form a partnership that will benefit sea turtles for years to come. The Whites of Texas is a musical duo that consists of high school sweethearts, Robby and Danielle White, who have been married …
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Nov 17 2022
By ALEXANDREA BAILEY editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com An artistic message of support has been completed on Padre Boulevard, in perfect timing to mark the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. On Dec. 30, 2021, the Port Isabel South Padre Press reported that a variance request from the owners of Paradise Beachwear, located at 2216 Padre Blvd, asking for …
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Nov 10 2022
By SHELDON MOORE Special to the PRESS On Tuesday Nov. 8, 2022 New Decade LNG was invited to address the South Padre Island Chamber of Commerce at the chamber’s monthly board meeting. A quorum of board members heard Next Decade Senior Vice President David Keane outline progress on the ongoing Rio Grande LNG project at …
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Nov 10 2022
By KRIEG KOHL Special to the PRESS Nov. 5 saw the Port Isabel Chamber of Commerce host its annual shrimp cook-off. Held in the Sutherlands parking lot, dozens of restaurants, stores and even a high school class came out and competed against one another. The shrimp cook off has been held for 29 years, as …
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