Jan 27 2011
By RAY QUIROGA The best ideas sometimes start small. Port Isabel businessman, and area volunteer Ralph Ayers can attest to that. Seventeen years ago, he and other members of St. Andrew’s by the Sea Episcopal Church in Port Isabel arranged for local fishing guides to provide an instructional lecture for a group of Winter Texans …
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Jan 20 2011
By RAY QUIROGA They’re so hot, they’ll fog up your lens! Of course, that’s if you just happened to be a newspaper photographer assigned to shoot a Zumba class at Port Isabel’s The Gym. The Gym’s jam-packed morning Zumba class has proven to not only fog up lenses, but even get spectators sweating. Fitness trainers …
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Jan 20 2011
By RAY QUIROGA It’s almost too hard for retired S an Benito businessman Lionel Betancourt to fathom. But it has been over 30 years since he first approached Bob Cornelison with the proposition to take the helm of a financially-despondent Port Isabel-San Benito Navigation District (PISBND). During a recent Rotary Club meeting in San Benito, Cornelison …
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Jan 20 2011
By STEVE CODY, II It’s a done deal. The City of South Padre Island joined the bandwagon to ban plastic bags at the point of sale. The ordinance will be voluntary beginning Feb. 1st of this year and will take full effect on January 1st, 2012. The City of South Padre Island is attempting to …
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Jan 20 2011
Justice of the Peace Bennie Ochoa, III gives the oath of office to Horacio A. Zamora, constable for Cameron County Constable Department Precinct #1 at the county courthouse earlier this month. Zamora’s wife, Eva, and daughter, Iris Zamora Moya, stood by his side. (Courtesy Photo)
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Jan 13 2011
By ANTONIO VINDELL The NBA Development League Showcase has been having a series of games this week on South Padre Island where scouts are looking for potential players to go to NBA teams all over the country. But the four-day event, that ends tonight (Thursday), also provided a prime opportunity to showcase the Island and …
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Jan 13 2011
By ANTONIO VINDELL A Laguna Heights man is behind bars after he assaulted two Cameron County deputy constables and attempted to take the gun away from a third one, authorities said. The incident happened at about 1 a.m. January 7. Deputy constables responded to a call about a suspicious looking man walking around Michigan and …
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Jan 13 2011
By ANTONIO VINDELL Another body showed up over the weekend on the north side of South Padre Island, bringing to three the number of drowning victims from a Mexican fishing boat that capsized in gulf waters in late December. A fourth man is still being reported as missing, authorities said. For more on this story, …
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Jan 13 2011
Players from the NBA’s D-League Bakersfield Jam and the NBA’s D-League front office put on a basketball clinic for the girls and boys student-athletes. The clinic not only focused on basketball skills but on students’ physical and mental fitness as well. Students participated in six different stations including jump rope, ladder, knock-out, ball handling, bean …
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Jan 13 2011
Part of a group of about 40 students from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law was in the Port Isabel/ South Padre Island area this week doing pro bono legal services. Their work included informing people on a variety of issues such as immigration reform, and helping low income people on how …
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