By JACQI LEVYA-HILL Special to the PRESS The Laguna Vista Community Development Corporation (CDC) met on November 17, 2025, at City Hall, where board members addressed public comments, deliberated on marina repair funding, and adopted the budget for the next fiscal year. The meeting opened with an invocation and pledges before moving into roll call …
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Nov 20 2025
Port Isabel holds special meeting
By JACQI LEVYA-HILL Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel City Commission held a Special Meeting on November 12, 2025, at City Hall, addressing a series of administrative and project-related items as the community enters the holiday season. Following the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance, city leaders announced that the annual Port Isabel Christmas Parade …
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Nov 20 2025
SPI calls for community volunteers
By DIANTÉ MARIGNY editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The City of South Padre Island is once again calling on residents to step forward and lend their voices, ideas, and energy by serving on one of the City’s volunteer boards and committees. From the Board of Adjustments & Appeals to the Shoreline Task Force, the Parks & Keep SPI Beautiful …
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Nov 20 2025
Tarpons fumbled game away
By CONSTANCIO MARTINEZ, JR. Special to the PRESS This past Friday, November 14, the (6-4) Port Isabel ECHS Tarpons took on the (6-3) Robstown Cotton Pickers in a Bi-District matchup. PIECHS entered the game as favorites having secured the number 1 seed after winning their district’s championship, but could 4th place Robstown upset the Tarpons? …
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Nov 20 2025
PI holds steady in UIL Snapshot
By CONSTANCIO MARTINEZ, JR. Special to the PRESS October 31, 2025 was the date the University Interscholastic League (UIL) has set aside as “Snapshot Day”, a day when all schools participating in UIL events were to submit their attendance numbers. The UIL uses these enrollment numbers every two years to separate different sized schools into …
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Nov 13 2025
From Port Isabel to Netflix: Schuster competes on ‘Squid Game’ reality series
By DIANTÉ MARIGNY editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Julie Schuster’s journey from a small-town Valley girl to a contestant on a reality series is the kind of story that makes Port Isabel proud. For Schuster, life in South Texas has always been about hard work, family, and community. But this year, the Port Isabel native took a giant …
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Nov 13 2025
Public comments open for SPI Second Access Project
By DIANTÉ MARIGNY editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is preparing a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the South Padre Island Second Access Project, which proposes alternate connections from the Texas mainland (State Highway 100), across the Laguna Madre, to South Padre Island (Park Road 100) in Cameron County. The project is intended …
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Nov 13 2025
Tarpons tip off basketball season with fresh faces, high hopes
By CONSTANCIO MARTINEZ, JR. Special to the PRESS The 2025-2026 high school basketball season has officially begun for the PIECHS Tarpons. With two scrimmages under their belt, the team is ready for their opening away game against Macedonian Christian, scheduled for Tuesday, November 18, at 6 p.m. This season’s team will start a new …
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Nov 13 2025
District champs ready for bi-district battle in Robstown
By CONSTANCIO MARTINEZ, JR. Special to the PRESS This coming Friday, November 14, the (6-4) Port Isabel ECHS Tarpons will hit the road to face off against the (6-3) Robstown Cotton Pickers in the first round of the playoffs. After a rough start to the season, where the Tarpons came out of their non-district …
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Nov 13 2025
Laguna Vista council advances infrastructure, community initiatives
By JACQI LEYVA-HILL Special to the PRESS The Laguna Vista Town Council met Tuesday evening, November 11th at the South Texas Ecotourism Center, opening with a heartfelt Veterans Day prayer and a moment of remembrance for a councilmember Dr. Romero’s late father, a decorated Green Beret veteran, who recently passed away. The meeting proceeded …
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