Jun 16 2017
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The City of Port Isabel began preliminary discussions about the 2017-2018 fiscal budget during a public workshop held at the start of Tuesday evening’s city commission meeting. The workshop was just the first of several which will be held between now and August. After two years of belt …
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Jun 16 2017
By MARTHA McCLAIN Special to the PRESS As planning for a proposed 23-acre ecology-oriented visitors’ center in Laguna Vista advances on the Cameron County level, Town Council members Tuesday agreed that US Fish and Wildlife participation should be considered. Boyd Blihovde, Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge manager, addressed officials here to ask that a portion of …
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Jun 16 2017
By MARTHA McCLAIN Special to the PRESS Laguna Vista officials Tuesday voted to award a contract for street improvements to G&T Paving, LLC in the amount of $178,307. Funding for the project comes from a Texas Department of Agriculture grant to be administered by Town employees. Town staff received three construction bids before the Council awarded …
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Jun 16 2017
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com After seeing how increased parking fees at Pompano Park would affect traffic and usage, the City of Port Isabel decided to reduce the rates again during a special meeting of the city commission Tuesday. “We increased these fees about six months ago with the idea of revisiting them,” …
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Jun 16 2017
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com It was a sweltering afternoon last Friday as local dignitaries and officials with American Electric Power (AEP) gathered to break ground on a new $12.3 million service center — one of two new facilities the electric company is constructing in Cameron County. The new facility will lie on …
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Jun 16 2017
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Tarpon football player Elijah Ramirez is hard at work this spring as he prepares for his senior year of football. The Press found Ramirez in the weight room at the high school this week and he talked about his schedule and the upcoming season. “I come in every …
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Jun 16 2017
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel 7-on-7 football team will play in this Saturday’s qualifying tournament at McAllen. The state 7-on-7 tournament will take place June 28-29 at College Station, and the Tarpons can qualify for state competition if they finish as one of the top two teams at McAllen. The …
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Jun 16 2017
Special to the PRESS Dear Editor, Thanks be to God! It is my most fervent desire to publicize my gratitude to my Lord and Savior. My journey after waking up to a brain hemorrhage on April 19, 2017 can only be described as miraculous. I was rushed to the hospital and underwent emergency surgery and …
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Jun 16 2017
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com My dad has jokes. My dad has a seemingly endless supply of corny jokes and he’ll dust one off at the most random time, tell it to you spontaneously, and then chuckle mischievously just a fraction of a second after he delivers the punch line. I know my …
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Jun 16 2017
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS Sea Beans have been found in the tombs of the Pharaohs, in burial grounds throughout Europe, in the ashes of ancient Viking campfires on Iceland and along the shores of virtually every body of water in the world. Probably the most ubiquitous drift seed found germinating on tropical beaches, …
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