Jan 29 2016
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS After the news of last week’s $100,000 contribution from the SPI Economic Development Corporation (EDC) towards funding a skate park at the Island’s new city park, the Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee jumped right into further planning. The committee held their regular meeting for the month in addition …
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Jan 29 2016
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS The Shoreline Task Force met Tuesday afternoon for a special meeting to consider details of the recently proposed Shoreline Management Department. After losing two members to the City Council, the board welcomed new members Norma Treviño and Ron Pitcock, who is also a member of the South Padre …
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Jan 29 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The 21st Annual Winter Outdoor Wildlife Festival, also known as WOWE, is currently underway at the South Padre Island Birding and Nature Center. The atmosphere was rather intimate on the opening day of the festival. In the muted stillness of a foggy morning just before the arrival of …
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Jan 29 2016
By PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS Will Everett is a noted writer, producer, world traveler and NPR correspondent with an impressive resumé. His NPR documentary, The World War I Living History Project, in which he traveled around the country interviewing the last surviving US veterans of WWI, featured narration by Walter Cronkite and gathered …
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Jan 29 2016
By MARTHA McCLAIN Special to the PRESS Twenty eight donors stepped up to contribute more than 30 units of blood at Sunday’s blood drive at Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Port Isabel. The Knights of Columbus Council 4779 at OLSS Parish organized the effort to help others in need of blood, according to spokesman …
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Jan 29 2016
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Lady Tarpons got the Raymondville Lady Bearkats, 50-43, in a District 32-4A basketball game on the road Tuesday night. “We came out strong early on and we just jumped on them,” P.I. head coach Blake Ramsey told the Press Wednesday. The Lady Tarpons ran out …
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Jan 29 2016
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The 2016 high school powerlifting season has begun and Port Isabel High was well represented at the first meet of the year at Brownsville Pace High School Saturday. “I was very pleased with all the kids’ efforts, considering that I have a lot of new lifters,” powerlifting head …
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Jan 29 2016
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpons basketball team got its first district win of the season Tuesday night. The final score was 71-57 and it came on the road in a rematch with Raymondville. “We’re looking at the second half of district as a new season,” first-year head coach Anthony …
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Jan 25 2016
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS Cameron County Judge Pete Sepulveda joined the South Padre Island Economic Development Corporation (EDC) at their Tuesday meeting to give an update regarding the Second Causeway Project. According to the judge, the project is currently the most environmentally complex project in the United States. As the Cameron County …
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Jan 22 2016
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Police have arrested a Port Isabel man on two counts of indecency with a child. Richard Drummond, 75, was arrested Thursday afternoon after a child between the ages of 7-10 years old made an outcry to a relative, who then reported it to police, Port Isabel Chief of …
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