By MARTHA McCLAIN Special to the PRESS An awareness campaign to alert dog owners to Laguna Vista’s leash law is underway here. The campaign is a precursor to planned round-up of strays and unattended dogs roaming local neighborhoods. “We are firmly committed to ensuring that pet owners are responsible in the care of their dogs,” …
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Oct 18 2012
Bust nets 230 lbs of pot
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com Law enforcement authorities with the Cameron County Constable Precinct 1 office removed 230 pounds of marijuana off the streets Wednesday while doing interdiction work out of Brownsville. The officers trailed a speeding vehicle and made contact with two male subjects that were arrested for evading police officers. The men were …
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Oct 15 2012
Ladies continue momentum with victory
By LARRY GAGE Special to the PRESS The Port Isabel Lady Tarpons Varsity Volleyball Team continued to take care of business Friday afternoon by winning their third straight district match over the Lady Red Ants of Progreso. They did it in straight sets by scores of 25-9, 25-18, and 25-10. It was Port Isabel’s third …
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Oct 15 2012
Port Isabel High Homecoming
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Oct 15 2012
Bikefest’s Best
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Oct 15 2012
Probe ongoing in three homicides
PRESS Staff Report Investigators with the Cameron County Sheriff’s Department continue probing three homicides which, although the bodies of two were discovered near Laguna Madre waters in less than two weeks time, are considered unrelated. On Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard retrieved the body of 65-year-old Michael McPeak of Port Isabel near the Paradise Cove …
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Oct 15 2012
DA to decide alleged cheaters’ fate
By HEATHER C. COX Special to the PRESS Seven individuals associated with a boat called Nice Tails face third-degree felony charges for alleged fraud in the Ladies Kingfish Tournament, hosted by the South Padre Island Chamber of Commerce on August 11. According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, the team’s winning flounder was not reported in …
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Oct 15 2012
Public hearing set for SPI
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The City of South Padre Island will conduct two public hearings at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 17, concerning the involuntary annexation in the area of land adjacent to the county on the south side of the Island as well as extending city limits to the beach. Mayor Robert Pinkerton …
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Oct 15 2012
PI eyes Laguna Heights
By CRAIG ALANIZ Reporter/Photographer press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The City of Port Isabel is taking preliminary measures to figure if annexing the Laguna Heights, a Census-designated place between Port Isabel and Laguna Vista, would be in the best interest of the city. Laguna Heights is currently in between two extraterritorial jurisdictions. The Port Isabel and Laguna Vista ETJs …
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Oct 15 2012
21st Century’s last session scheduled
Special to the PRESS The fourth and final session of the 21st Century University Commission will take place from 6-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17, in Salón Cassia of the University of Texas at Brownsville Education and Business Complex on University Boulevard. Residents of Brownsville, surrounding communities, and students, faculty and staff of UTB are …
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