Mar 28 2013
PRESS Staff Report One week after Darla Lapeyre was sentenced to six months in jail at a state facility for negligent homicide, board members of the City of South Padre Island Economic Development Corporation moved to suspend her as the entity’s executive director. After discussing the matter in executive session on Thursday, the board decided …
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Mar 28 2013
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The South Padre Island Convention and Visitors Bureau Transition Board held a regular meeting Wednesday. A market analysis by Charlie Johnson was presented to the board. Johnson updated a report done in 2005 and recommended the convention center expand to 40,000 square foot exhibit space and to add a 10,000 …
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Mar 28 2013
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Special to the PRESS One life is gone and another changed forever after a teenager involved in a car accident during Spring Break on the Island succumbed to his injuries Wednesday night. Sixteen-year-old Alex Soto, a junior at Los Fresnos High School, died from injuries sustained in a DWI wreck at South …
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Mar 28 2013
By RAY QUIROGA Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com Peter Caceres, owner -operator of Olympian Fitness in Port Isabel admits that as much confidence he had in his athletes, even he was surprised that no less than 11 of his students advanced to the 2013 USA Taekwondo National Championships to be held in Chicago July 3-9. …
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Mar 28 2013
By RAY QUIROGA Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com A group of area women are on a mission to better inform local voters. Madeleine Sandefur of Laguna Vista and Rose Timmer of Brownsville are among the core members of the League of Women Voters of Texas – Rio Grande Valley. A relatively new organization in the …
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Mar 28 2013
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS Port Isabel High School powerlifters Jerry Lopez and Fernando Rivera gave it their all at the Men’s State Powerlifting Meet in Abilene last Saturday. Lopez won his second straight state title and Rivera set a new personal-best in the total lift for a fifth place finish. Competing in …
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Mar 28 2013
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com March 31 is Easter Sunday and Laguna Madre area churches will be observing the holiday this weekend in each of the cities. Our Lady Star of the Sea will begin their services Thursday night with a Mass of the Last Supper at 7 p.m. and will have special services through …
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Mar 28 2013
Special to the PRESS A bill critical to the effort to attract SpaceX to the Brownsville area has been set for a hearing before a Texas House of Representatives’ committee. The bill will permit Cameron County and the GLO to temporarily close Boca Chica Beach for rocket launches, should SpaceX be granted permission to launch …
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Mar 28 2013
Special to the PRESS The AEP Foundation is helping make the Boys and Girls Club of Laguna Madre even cooler to area kids. The American Electric Power (AEP) Foundation contributed $150,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Laguna Madre in Port Isabel. Julio Reyes, AEP Texas vice president of External Affairs, made a check …
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Mar 21 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Special to the PRESS BROWNSVILLE – South Padre Island Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Darla Lapeyre was sentenced to six months in jail at a state facility Thursday for negligent homicide charges dating back to a Feb. 6, 2011 incident in which the vehicle she was driving struck and killed Michigan …
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