Sep 01 2020
Interview by Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The South Padre Parade virtually interviewed Jared Hockema, City Manager of Port Isabel, to learn about his administrative role in the coastal community several thousand call home. Want to see a local leader featured in the Parade? Email editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com with your suggestions. What is the city manager’s role in …
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Aug 31 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Port Isabel Detention Center (PIDC) and one of its detainees has attracted the attention of United State Congress members. Forty-four U.S. Congress members have co-signed a letter urging Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf to not deport Steven Tendo, a 36-year-old pastor from Uganda who has been detained …
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Aug 28 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com A skating pool located behind the former site of Christ Harbor Church in Laguna Vista, now San Benito-based Cross Church’s Bay Area campus, has been an alt-culture staple in an otherwise quiet bayside community. Sometime between Cross Church’s launch of their Bay Area campus on Easter Sunday of this year and …
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Aug 28 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Port Isabel residents have several chances to get a COVID-19 test through Aug. 30, after Cameron County extended the mobile testing site’s hours. From today until Sunday, Aug. 30, COVID-19 testing is available at the Port Isabel Event & Cultural Center, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The site’s …
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Aug 27 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Three more sea turtles have “hatched” along South Padre Island in the last two weeks, as part of the Sea Turtle Art Trail. Artists Beth Fedigan and Chelsea Fedigan are behind the largest of the Sea Turtle Art Trail’s “hatchings,” with an 11 to 12 foot tall sea turtle sculpture displayed …
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Aug 27 2020
Staff report Cameron County ranks 5th in the state for COVID-19 deaths, according to Cameron County Health Authority Dr. James Castillo, who spoke on the county’s COVID-19 situation at a press conference on Aug. 24. “That has either happened because our population has health problems, because of our demographics, because of poverty, because of access …
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Aug 24 2020
Staff report The Port Isabel-South Padre Press is looking for a salesperson to fill a full-time position. The salesperson will sell advertisements for both the weekly Port Isabel-South Padre Press and the monthly South Padre Parade entertainment magazine. Previous sales experience preferred. Email Ray Quiroga at rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com. Serious inquirers only.
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Aug 21 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The highest court in the state will decide whether a lawsuit against the City of Port Isabel from its former city manager will ever see a courtroom. After the state’s Thirteenth Court of Appeals, which serves Cameron County and several other South Texas counties, denied the City of Port Isabel’s request …
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Aug 21 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Both incumbents are running for reelection in South Padre Island’s mayor and council elections later this year. Patrick McNulty, who won a runoff election against Darla Jones in 2019, is running for mayor again. Alita Bagley, current council member for Place 4, has also filed …
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Aug 21 2020
By Gaige Davila editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com School buses will zip through the Laguna Madre area’s streets soon, but not with students on board. The “Grab & Go, Eat at Home” program is PI-ISD’s school-year version of meal programs started in March, when PI-ISD suspended in-person classes after COVID-19 cases started rising in Texas. Leading the program is …
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