Jan 03 2013
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The dip in temperature at the start of the New Year did not stop hundreds of Island visitors from taking a dip into the gulf. The 15th Annual Polar Bear Dip continued its New Year’s Day tradition at a new location in 2013 as Clayton’s Beach Bar hosted hundreds of …
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Jan 03 2013
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com A Missouri man vacationing at South Padre Island drowned on Christmas day. The South Padre Island Beach Patrol responded to a swimmer in distress call on December 25. The distress call was received just before noon regarding a swimmer in distress approximately two miles north of the 6200 block of …
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Jan 03 2013
By DEBRA WINGER Special to the PRESS “History is my passion! When I was seven years old, my dad had been remodeling our house when he discovered a secret room under the staircase. The room had 100’s of old newspapers, dating back before the civil war along with empty whiskey bottles and a stack of …
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Jan 03 2013
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com A master artist donated her work to Art Space on South Padre Island. Lynne Anderson from Paonia, Colorado said she specializes in clay and glaze. One piece she donated was done using the Raku style glazing technique. “Raku is really special, mostly because it is always unique depending on the …
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Jan 03 2013
Special to the Parade An intriguing film festival is being launched on Padre Island by the El Paseo Arts Foundation (EPAF) on Tuesday. It will feature films made by and in developing and third world countries as much for their own audiences as for other countries. These are award winning new releases discovered recently by …
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Dec 27 2012
By RAY QUIROGA Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com It seems as though Keith DiSantis was born to love music. Currently a full time music teacher for Harlingen CISD, DiSantis is equally comfortable playing his saxophone before a crowd or in a recording studio laying down tacks with renowned musicians. This past summer, for example, DiSantis …
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Dec 27 2012
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the PRESS It has been over two months, and investigators still have no answers regarding the discovery of the three corpses found within a two-week window in late September and October. The first corpse was identified as a man named Jeremy Tyrone Eyster, 35, whose body washed to shore …
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Dec 27 2012
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com A local professional photographer has passed away this week. Richard Stockton provided professional photography services in the Rio Grande Valley. Stockton’s business, located at South Padre Island, provided many services including commercial photography, portraits on the beach, weddings, video, film processing and printing, 35mm and 120mm film and digital media. …
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Dec 27 2012
Special to the PRESS Ross Stanley, manager of Central Power and Light Company, organized the Port Isabel Rotary Club in 1936 by soliciting 19 charter members for their first meeting at the Queen Isabella Inn. Andy Bowie, an employee of Central Power and Light Company in San Benito, came to the first meeting to explain …
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Dec 20 2012
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com A structure fire Thursday morning has left three families in Port Isabel homeless. Port Isabel Fire Marshall Rodrigo Garcia said the fire department received a call at 8:43 a.m. regarding the structure fire located at 308 S. Garcia St. He said the first responders arrived five minutes after the call …
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