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Letter to the Editor for 1-07-2016

Special to the PRESS Dear Editor, Thank you very much to The Press and Keep South Padre Island Beautiful Committee for bringing back the Plant of the Month series of articles to a new audience (as well as a refresher to the old). It is most welcome to me as a recent newcomer to Port …

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Tarpons Go Down, 66-52, at Grulla

By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpons lost 66-52 to Grulla on the road Tuesday night in the second district game for both teams. Port Isabel never led but after trailing by 17 points, 36-19 at the half, P.I. outscored the Gators 33-30 in the second half.  Grulla led 21-11 after …

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2015 Year in Review: South Padre Island

8. City focused on infrastructure improvements By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS This year was a positive one for the City of South Padre Island with improvements and developments across the board. Many City projects which have long been in the works began to come together this year including the new John L. Tompkins …

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2015: Year in Review

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Looking back at the Laguna Madre’s Top 10 stories By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The communities that make up the Laguna Madre region may be small, but big news happens here, and 2015 was no exception. So much news happens here that deciding on a Top 10 was no easy task. The list …

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Search for missing paddle boarder suspended

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By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a stand up paddle boarder who was reported missing Sunday. According to Lt. Shelly Brown, public affairs officer for the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi, the man was last seen paddling out into the water near the jetties …

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Writer’s Block: So Long, 2015!

By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Here we are at the twilight of another year. These past 12 months have flown by so fast and now a new year greets us with new opportunities, new possibilities, new resolutions. Looking over the resolutions I made at the beginning of this year, I see that I …

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Body found in bay

By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Officials recovered the body of a Hispanic man seen in the waters of the Laguna Madre approximately six miles north of the South Padre Island Convention Centre Sunday. “One of the fishing boats from Port Isabel … he spotted the body,” Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio said. “He …

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Cloud 9 hit by break-in

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By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Two men broke into well-known South Padre Island business Cloud 9 early Sunday morning, breaking a front window and stealing several thousand dollars worth of merchandise. In surveillance video posted to social media, the men can be seen rifling through the store’s shelving, tossing things on the ground. …

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Plant of the Month: Beach Morning Glory

By ALEXANDRA BROTZMAN Special to the PRESS Most people associate the Keep South Padre Island Beautiful Committee (KSPIBC) with a group of Island locals dedicated to beach cleanups, recycling and conservation. While all of this is true, the group is also dedicated to community education and involvement. For this reason, we have decided to bring back …

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Letter to the Editor for 12-31-2015

Special to the PRESS Dear Editor, A group of us veterans who live in the lower Rio Grande Valley are in the process of organizing a chapter of Veterans For Peace (VFP) for veterans in our geographic area.  VFP is an organization for veterans with over 140 chapters, most of them in the USA, that …

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