May 04 2018
By KEVIN RICH Special to the PRESS The South Padre Island Convention and Visitors Advisory Board (CVA) considered a funding request for the Friends of the RGV Reef project during a meeting held on Tuesday, April 24. The SPI Economic Development Corporation (EDC) met on April 17, and approved a similar request for $26,000. As she …
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May 04 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com What would happen to the Rio Grande Valley if a powerful storm like Hurricane Harvey made landfall here? How quickly could the area recover, and what obstacles, specifically within the construction industry, would hinder that recovery process? Those were the questions the Texas House Business & Industry Committee …
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May 04 2018
By KEVIN RICH Special to the PRESS During a special session held on Tuesday, April 24, the SPI City Council was presented with a mid-year budget review by the City’s Chief Financial Officer Rodrigo Gimenez. The CFO began by reporting that the City is in compliance with its required reserve funds. “We need to keep a …
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May 04 2018
By KEVIN RICH Special to the PRESS The SPI Shoreline Taskforce considered a pair of beach and dune permits, heard a report on shoreline projects, and created a subcommittee to explore the issue of shoreline restroom facilities during their Monday, April 23 meeting. Shoreline Management Director Brandon Hill provided the Taskforce with an update on the …
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May 04 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Port Isabel student-athlete Olivia Soliz has signed a national letter of intent to play volleyball at Central Methodist University in Missouri. The signing took place Wednesday afternoon with family, friends and classmates looking on. Soliz was a three-year varsity volleyball player for Port Isabel High. She was named …
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May 04 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Seven Port Isabel Tarpons gave it their all at last weekend’s UIL Region IV Track and Field Meet at Kingsville. These seven Port Isabel High runners competed in three different events in their efforts to qualify for the state meet in Austin later this month. Shawn Shrewsbury ran …
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May 04 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Four Port Isabel Lady Tarpons competed at last week’s UIL Region IV Class 4-A Track and Field Meet at Kingsville. Two of them ended the day with personal bests in their events and ended their high school careers on high notes. Natalie Garza came up just short of …
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May 04 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com If you’ve been paying attention to the news the last few months, then chances are you might have seen some of the bad press our most ubiquitous social media company has been receiving lately. I’m talking about Facebook — that behemoth of a technological marvel that serves as …
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May 04 2018
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS I remember a time my friend Bill Bieker and I were on a hunt for an old US army encampment we had heard about. A friend of Bill’s had stumbled upon the site on his ranch after Hurricane Brett had brushed the Island back in 1999. Though the storm …
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Apr 20 2018
By KEVIN RICH Special to the PRESS Citizens and elected officials gathered at Isla Blanca Park on a gorgeous sunny day last Thursday, April 12, for a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the construction of new improvements and amenities on the gulf side of the park. Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr. served as the Master of …
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