Padre Nicholas Balli, for whom Padre Island gets its name, was the first European to bring ranching to the Island. He and his nephew Juan founded El Rancho Santa Cruz de Buena Vista (later known as the Lost City), where they kept cattle, horses and mules. The actual ranch and outbuildings, located about 26 miles north of the Island’s southern tip, were little more than thatched huts known as...
Picking up trash seemed like the perfect way to spend spring break to a group of 13 Washburn students. It didn’t hurt that the trash was on beaches in South Padre Island, Texas, and the work helped protect a critically endangered species of sea turtle. Judy Scherff, an adjunct instructor in biology, and 11 members of the Washburn Saves Sea Turtles club traveled to South Padre to work directly with...
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — The new city manager here is ready for a big change from his previous job in Rhode Island. “I’ll have to get used to warm weather,” said William DiLibero, 56, who will assume his new post as city manager on Tuesday. DiLibero had been town administrator in Charleston, R.I., and town manager of Hopkinton, R.I., with about three years in each town. “I think it was...
