PRESS Staff Report Cameron County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrested a 35-year-old Laguna Heights woman on multiple felony charges for allegedly prostituting two teenage sisters from multiple locations in the Port Isabel area. One of the areas where the female suspect, identified as Martha Ochoa, allegedly prostituted the teens was at the Port Isla Inn off …
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Oct 30 2014
Investigation ongoing in nurse’s death
PRESS Staff Report Authorities with the South Padre Island Police Department and Emergency Medical Personnel were dispatched to the Hilton Garden Inn on 7010 Padre Blvd. in response to an unresponsive female. The female subject, identified as Melissa A. Ortiz, 25, a nursing program graduate of the University of Texas at Brownsville and registered nurse …
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Oct 30 2014
END OF AN ERA: SPI bids farewell to Pinkerton, Evans
By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS A farewell reception for outgoing South Padre Island Mayor Robert Pinkerton and Councilperson JoAnn Evans was held at the Isla Grand Beach Resort on the Island last Wednesday, with family, friends, local first responders and members of the community gathering to celebrate the pair’s years of service to the …
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Oct 30 2014
Silver Tarpon Marching Band advances to state
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Members of the Port Isabel High School Silver Tarpon Marching Band raised their game last Saturday. They placed fourth in the finals of the area marching band competition at Corpus Christi Calallen and advance to next week’s state marching contest in San Antonio. In order to make Saturday …
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Oct 30 2014
Pint-sized Haunted House charms at library
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Darra Fuqua of Port Isabel received her first dollhouse made of tin in the 1940s as a Christmas present. When she decided to build one from scratch in the early 70s, it became a collaborative venture she pursued with her two daughters, and has been a lasting project …
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Oct 30 2014
Police visit Garza Center children
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com As part of the Head Start Program, the roughly 150 children of the Esperanza B. Garza Center in Port Isabel got an educational treat this past Thursday when local law enforcement agents gave a presentation on the significance of knowing how to respond during an emergency and the …
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Oct 30 2014
Laguna Madre’s tourism future assessed
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS The lower Laguna Madre area is reaching a turning point as the face of the standard tourist is beginning to evolve. With the area soon having to make adjustments to younger generations visiting, while accommodating the travel decline of baby boomers, a tourism assessment team came down from …
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Oct 23 2014
Safety, health reasons prompt sidewalk project
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Pedestrians’ awkward walk alternating between the edge of Highway 100 and the strip will soon be a thing of the past for the people of Port Isabel. The city received a grant from the UT Health System and an ordinance was approved for the construction of a new …
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