Sep 11 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com A Port Isabel resident was extradited from South Dakota to face sexual abuse of a child charges. On Aug. 27, Port Isabel Police Department (PIPD) Captain Jose Cadengo and Detective Christina Esquivel traveled to Elk Point, South Dakota, to arrest Roberto C. Castro. Two weeks before, PIPD received a report that …
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Sep 11 2020
Staff report Three people from Port Isabel were killed in a head-on car collision in Los Fresnos last Wednesday. Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials said Maria Zamora, 49, and her two grandchildren, Reynaldo Alvarado Jr., 6, and Artlette Castillo, 2, were killed after a northbound GMC Yukon crashed head-on into their southbound Dodge …
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Sep 04 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com After Labor Day, Cameron County beach accesses and beach parks will reopen. Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño Jr. announced the reopening during a press conference on Thursday, Sept. 4. The county beaches will reopen, Treviño said, on the Tuesday after Labor Day, or Sept. 8. More Cameron County parks could reopen …
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Sep 04 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com COVID-19 has affected many in Port Isabel and the whole of the Laguna Madre area, including the Point Isabel Independent School District (PI-ISD), where staff have contracted the disease and recovered. But on Aug. 25, Derry Elementary’s nurse, Nora Sanchez, after contracting COVID-19, died in Harlingen. On social media, several people …
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Sep 04 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com For a Laguna Vista skatepark to remain usable, it may need to be donated to the town in which it lies. For now, the Gwen Bowl, a pool-style skatepark behind Cross Church’s Bay Area campus, has been prohibited from use by Cross Church, via a sign posted outside the fence surrounding …
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Sep 04 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Local surfers and their attorney are questioning their recent citations for surfing at Isla Blanca Park after noting several RVs were still renting inside the Cameron County beach park. Stuart Diamond, an attorney on South Padre Island, is representing 13 people who were ticketed by Cameron County Parks Rangers on July …
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Sep 04 2020
Special to the PRESS Longtime Port Isabel resident Isabel Barrientez Perez celebrated her 100th birthday on Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, with her children, grandchildren, great-great grandchildren and great-great-great grandchildren. Barrientez was born to Romana Valent and Pedro Barrientez in Port Isabel, one of 14 children of 14 children, including 3 sets of twins. Barrientez is …
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Sep 04 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com School was back in virtual session last week, as Laguna Madre area students adjusted to a completely-online school day. For Point Isabel Independent School District, the first week of classes went, for the most part, well, according to the district’s superintendent, Theresa Capistran. “We had some hiccups along the way, but …
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Sep 01 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Padre Island Brewing Company can lay claim to several instances of doing something before it was “cool,” or, in other words, a mainstream, normal facet of life. The lone brewing company on South Padre Island, Padre Island Brewing Company has been making beer in its large in-house tanks since 1995, …
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Sep 01 2020
By Steve Hathcock steve@southpadreislandtv.tv Clouds were feathering along high up where the blue was so intense it…Nah, that won’t work…I was doomed…I had picked up a bad case of the dreaded “Writers Blah!” My article was due for the Parade Magazine and I was so out of ideas that I could not even think of …
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