World’s Championship Shrimp Cook-Off… Come see what’s cookin’!
Here’s what’s cooking until 6 p.m. at the World’s Championship Shrimp Cook-Off in Port Isabel! Perfect weather, perfect fun for all! Food, vendors, games & live music by The Agency… all day long!
Slide Show + -Full Screen
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Movies at the Lighthouse! RANGO 10/28 8p
Join us on Friday, October 28 at 8:00 p.m. for FREE FAMILY FUN at the Port Isabel Lighthouse! Bring your lawn chairs, blankets, picnics and friends and family for a memorable evening on the grounds of the historic Port Isabel Lighthouse. All summer movies start on Friday at 9:30 p.m. just after South Padre...
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Fall for Port Isabel in October!
The Port Isabel Merchants Committee has planned a full slate of activities in October in a campaign titled “Fall for Port Isabel”. (See schedule and forms here 2011-october-schedule(2)).
The month will kick off with weekly ghost tours, beginning October 1st and will include a street fair on October 8th, a Halloween Store Front Decorating Contest and Market...
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Ghosts Hunted and Found in Port Isabel!
“Very active, in my 30 years, this place is very active” and this is “the most haunted area in the Valley”, conclusions that two groups visiting various sites in Port Isabel came to after listening to things that go bump in the night.
Oddly, the Port Isabel Cemetery and the Palangana Cemetery were quiet. A...
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Plans underway for 10th Anniversary of the Queen Isabella Causeway Collapse
In the early morning hours of September 15, 2001, just four days after 9/11, a barge struck the Queen Isabella Causeway causing a portion of it to collapse. Eight lives were lost and three survivors rescued from the waters of the Laguna Madre Bay.
A decade later, members of the communities bridged by the Queen...
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