Mar 23 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS In just her second time competing at the state level, Port Isabel powerlifter Julianna Barrera came away with a bronze medal. Competing in the 165-pound weight class Barrera got the third place finish with a total lift of 960 pounds. The 2018 Texas Women’s Powerlifting Association State Meet …
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Mar 23 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The athletes of Port Isabel High’s Lady Tarpons track and field team set numerous personal records at last week’s UTRGV Invitational meet at Edinburg. One more meet remains on the schedule before the District 32-4A meet in La Feria next month. “We probably won’t have a complete team …
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Mar 23 2018
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Tarpon track and field team will compete at this weekend’s two-day Meet of Champs at La Feria and Weslaco. The preliminaries of most events will be held at several different sites across the Rio Grande Valley. Port Isabel will go to La Feria for Friday’s …
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Mar 23 2018
Special to the PRESS Please tell me when the talk to make Spring Break more family oriented will actual become actions. I have been coming to this island since 1984, owner since 2011 and permanent residents since 2013 and see only actions that increase my lack of desire to bring anyone’s family here. I had …
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Mar 23 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com If you’re anything like me then I’m sure you’ve noticed the bright spots of color that have begun to dot the landscape, whether that be the open pastures along Highway 100 or on the lawns that line our residential streets. Everywhere, spring wildflowers have begun to bloom. A …
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Mar 23 2018
By STEVE HATHCOCK Special to the PRESS I remember that day clearly. A tiny silvery dot closely followed by two straight white parallel lines, streaked across the brilliant turquoise blue sky on its final approach to the airport in Brownsville. Looking toward the Gulf I could see that the surf was flat and the beach sand …
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Mar 16 2018
Rowdy crowds, but no major incidents say police By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The City of South Padre Island’s new mass gathering and short term rental ordinances seem to be having the positive effect officials hoped they would in controlling the raucous atmosphere of Spring Break. That was the word from South Padre …
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Mar 16 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) hosted a public hearing regarding an air quality permit application from Rio Grande LNG, which is one of three liquefied natural gas (LNG) companies seeking to build LNG export terminals at the Port of Brownsville. Over 150 people attended the meeting, …
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Mar 16 2018
By DINA ARÉVALO Port Isabel-South Padre Press editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com In a unanimous decision Tuesday, the Port Isabel City Commission approved a 5-year tax abatement agreement for the new owners and developers of the Port Isabel Yacht Club. The tax abatement will be for a period of 5 years and will only pertain to new developments or improvements …
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Mar 16 2018
By KEVIN RICH Special to the PRESS During their Wednesday, March 7 meeting, the South Padre Island City Council received the results of a financial audit and considered technology tools to gather data on the effectiveness of marketing efforts. Quentin Anderson, with the Rio Grande Valley offices of Carr, Riggs & Ingram, provided Council with a …
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