Aug 28 2014
BY Sasha Heller Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com A small crowd gathered on the steps of Port Isabel City Hall Tuesday evening to witness Mayor Joe E. Vega accept resident Tommie Elium’s Ice Bucket Challenge to support Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), better known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease.” To read the rest of this story, please subscribe to the …
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Aug 28 2014
BY Sasha Heller Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Port Isabel City Commission on Tuesday adopted the property tax rate of $0.626327/$100. Mayor Joe E. Vega noted that the tax rate has remained consistent since 2008, even though the costs of managing the City have continued to rise. He then thanked the city staff for helping …
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Aug 28 2014
BY Sasha Heller Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The City of Port Isabel has begun its planned maintenance for the Lighthouse and Keeper’s Cottage, which will include repainting the buildings’ exteriors and repairing the staircases. “The Lighthouse will receive a total restoration in and out,” said City Manager Edward Meza. To read the rest of this story, please …
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Aug 28 2014
BY Sasha Heller Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Port Isabel City Commission on Tuesday supported a development group’s proposal to build a 25-bed, critical care hospital in Port Isabel. The round-the-clock, critical care complex would serve residents throughout the Lower Laguna Madre and would include an imaging center where patients could receive CAT scans and PET …
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Aug 28 2014
BY Sasha Heller Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The South Padre Island City Council at its meeting last week approved contracting with the University of Texas-Brownsville (UTB) to fund a graduate position during the 2014-15 school year, creating a partnership with the college that could assist the Island with coastal resources management. To read the rest of this …
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Aug 22 2014
By ARMANDO GARZA Special to the PRESS MERCEDES — Man, even Murphy would’ve shaken his head. In the final scrimmage at Tiger Stadium on Friday evening, everything that could’ve gone wrong for the Port Isabel Tarpons did as the Mercedes Tigers prevailed by a 3-1 margin. Then in a live half, the hits kept …
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Aug 21 2014
BY SASHA HELLER Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com The Port Isabel City Commission, at a special-called meeting Monday, authorized the Port Isabel Economic Development Corporation to apply for approximately $2.4 million of loan funds through the Office of the Governor to develop a culinary arts institute. To read the rest of this story, please subscribe to the Port Isabel-South …
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Aug 21 2014
BY SASHA HELLER Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Last month, a visiting couple from Iowa accidentally collided with an intoxicated man who had been stumbling southbound along the 5400 block of Padre Boulevard late in the afternoon. According to the accident report, Daniel and Sherri Herber, of Urbandale, Iowa had been driving inside the right-hand lane. To read the …
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Aug 21 2014
BY PAMELA CODY Special to the PRESS There are the obvious reasons why living on South Padre Island is special – the weather, the beautiful beaches – but what makes it truly special are its amazing, year-round residents. SPI is a small, tightly-knit community that never fails to step up when one of their own …
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Aug 21 2014
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