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Beach cleanup hauls 1,800 lbs. of trash

BY SASHA HELLER Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Last week, Keep Brownsville Beautiful (KBB) hosted its Fourth Annual Post Memorial Day Beach Clean Up at Boca Chica Beach in which 47 volunteers collected a total of 1,815 pounds of debris from the beach. To read the rest of this story, please subscribe to the Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS E-edition …

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Cleanup hauls 120 tons of trash

BY SASHA HELLER Managing Editor editor@portisabelsouthpadre.com Volunteers statewide took to the beaches on Saturday as part of the 28th annual Texas General Land Office (GLO) Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup. More than 7,334 volunteers hauled more than 120 tons of trash that was littered up and down the Texas coastline. To read the rest of this story, please subscribe …

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Dozens brave harsh elements, clean up beach

BY CHIEF MICHAEL JOHNSON Special to the PRESS Picture this: 37 degrees, rain that The Weather Channel is calling “snow” and sustained 25 mph wind. These were the conditions that that 39 dedicated volunteers had to weather during the ADOPT-a-BEACH cleanup at Edwin Atwood Park on Friday. To read the rest of this story, please …

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