Oct 30 2014
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 30 2014
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Carole Mahalak, a long time winter Texan, has an unusual talent that corresponds with her love of the ocean. Every year for the past four years, she has come across a message in a bottle that has reached the South Texas shore. “I’ve had a love affair with …
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Oct 23 2014
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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Oct 23 2014
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com There is still time to participate in early voting, which concludes Oct. 31, before the Nov. 4 general election. Polling places are at the County Annex Building at 505 Highway 100 in Port Isabel during the following dates and times – Friday, Oct. 24, from 8 a.m. to …
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Oct 23 2014
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel High Silver Tarpon marching band is off to Corpus Christi this weekend to compete for a spot in the state marching contest. Last Saturday the band participated in the Pigskin Marching Contest at San Benito and appeared, as well as sounded, as though they are …
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Oct 23 2014
PRESS Staff Report Port Isabel police suspect that alcohol may have played a role in a fatal car crash that reportedly occurred near Highway 100 and Tarnava Street over last weekend. The accident occurred at approximately 4 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19. According to authorities, the driver, 20-year-old Johnny Anthony Moore, collided with multiple palm …
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Oct 23 2014
By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Throughout the world, there are those who believe that for a brief time in the fall, the spirits of the dead will return home to reunite with their family and friends and celebrate with the living. Their loved ones honor the dead as their ancestors have for hundreds …
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Oct 23 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com All but one community in the Laguna Madre area experienced sales tax gains in the month of August. Port Isabel reported a 1.33 percent increase in sales tax collections this August, from $191,563.05 during the same period last year to $194,113.14 this year. On South Padre Island, a …
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Oct 23 2014
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS Wednesday evening’s City Council meeting proved to be another eventful one. The meeting lasted for over two hours and covered a variety of topics, the most controversial being the approval of a Specific Use Permit (SUP) request for Origins Recovery Center to build in the Padre Beach and …
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Oct 23 2014
By ABBEY KUNKLE Special to the PRESS Origins Recovery Center on South Padre Island is one of the premier rehab centers in Texas and has been nestled in the heart of the Island since 2010. With continued success and growth over the past few years, Origins began the request for a Specific Use Permit (SUP) …
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