Dec 31 2015
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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Dec 31 2015
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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Dec 31 2015
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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Dec 31 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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Dec 31 2015
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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Dec 31 2015
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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Dec 31 2015
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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Dec 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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Dec 31 2015
Special to the PRESS Cameron County Commissioner’s Court today on a 4-0 vote provided an Order establishing a County-Wide Transportation Reinvestment Zone that is projected to support approximately $1.6 billion in transportation projects that will promote safety, support development, and facilitate the movement of traffic in Cameron County. In approving the Order, the Commissioners Court …
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Dec 31 2015
Special to the PRESS Even though Christmas felt like Easter with the temperatures, and now the chill of winter has paid the Island a visit, it’s time for the Christmas tree to come down. The City of South Padre Island wants to remind you that all live trees can be recycled into mulch, free of …
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