Category: News

Q-1 revenues up at Isla Blanca, down at County beach accesses

By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com It’s a net positive for the Cameron County Parks and Recreation Department, according to a report of the fiscal year 2017 delivered by Parks Director Joe E. Vega during a meeting of the Cameron County Commissioners’ Court Monday. “For the first quarter of FY2017 the entire Parks and …

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Youth Center board discusses finances

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By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Laguna Madre Youth Center (LMYC) Board of Directors discussed the Center’s finances, activity programs and elected a new board member during a public meeting Wednesday evening. The LMYC, which is still in the process of reorganizing its policies and procedures a year after leaving its affiliation with …

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Holy Week schedule at OLSS

By MARTHA McCLAIN Special to the PRESS Holy Week observances begin locally with a Palm Sunday procession before Mass and concluding Easter Vigil mass on Holy Saturday at Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church, located at 705 S. Longoria Street in Port Isabel. Residents are invited to participate in the procession, which will originate …

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Barrera takes bronze at State

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS In just her second time competing at the state level, Port Isabel powerlifter Julianna Barrera came away with a bronze medal. Competing in the 165-pound weight class Barrera got the third place finish with a total lift of 960 pounds.  The 2018 Texas Women’s Powerlifting Association State Meet …

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Girls’ track setting new personal bests

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The athletes of Port Isabel High’s Lady Tarpons track and field team set numerous personal records at last week’s UTRGV Invitational meet at Edinburg. One more meet remains on the schedule before the District 32-4A meet in La Feria next month. “We probably won’t have a complete team …

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Tarpons to Compete at Meet of Champs

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpon track and field team will compete at this weekend’s two-day Meet of Champs at La Feria and Weslaco.  The preliminaries of most events will be held at several different sites across the Rio Grande Valley.  Port Isabel will go to La Feria for Friday’s …

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Letter to the Editor for March 22, 2018

Special to the PRESS Please tell me when the talk to make Spring Break more family oriented will actual become actions. I have been coming to this island since 1984, owner since 2011 and permanent residents since 2013 and see only actions that increase my lack of desire to bring anyone’s family here. I had …

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Writer’s Block: Wildflower Scavenger Hunt

By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com If you’re anything like me then I’m sure you’ve noticed the bright spots of color that have begun to dot the landscape, whether that be the open pastures along Highway 100 or on the lawns that line our residential streets. Everywhere, spring wildflowers have begun to bloom. A …

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Rio History: Driftwood Treasures

By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS I remember that day clearly. A tiny silvery dot closely followed by two straight white parallel lines, streaked across the brilliant turquoise blue sky on its final approach to the airport in Brownsville. Looking toward the Gulf I could see that the surf was flat and the beach sand …

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SPRING BREAK — TEXAS WEEK

Rowdy crowds, but no major incidents say police By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The City of South Padre Island’s new mass gathering and short term rental ordinances seem to be having the positive effect officials hoped they would in controlling the raucous atmosphere of Spring Break. That was the word from South Padre …

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