Surfside Beach News

More than one year after a family raised concerns about pedestrian beach accessibility, those with special needs now have a way to enjoy the waves.

Howdy! Can you believe this beautiful weather? The ground actually still is a little moist, most of the cracks have swelled closed and the pond is almost full.

A 61-year-old surfer from The Woodlands who went missing Thursday was rescued overnight when he made it to an offshore oil installation.

Surfside Beach leaders have no problem with Freeport taking 122 acres adjacent to the village into the city limits, a move Freeport officials say is being done in advance of a possible development.

EDITOR'S NOTE - Last of three stories examining the proposed constitutional amendments voters will decide Nov.

The bulk of a proposed structure designed to protect a newly rebuilt Bluewater Highway would be underground and not infringe on any private property, Surfside Beach and Treasure Island residents were told during a recent public hearing.

Interviews are expected to begin next week in Freeport for a new police chief. The job has been filled since June by Gus Flores who took over after Jeff Pynes left to become city manager.

An Horry County jury took about 30 minutes Tuesday to find a Garden City Beach woman not guilty on charges that resulted from the 2005 drunken driving death of a 15-year-old Surfside Beach teen.

Petroleum and chemical shipper U.S. Shipping Partners LP said Thursday that a New York bankruptcy court has confirmed its reorganization plan.

Surfside Beach officials are hoping to give the village's Hurricane Ike damaged roads some much needed attention after second-round funding from the Texas Department of Rural Affairs is disbursed.

Volunteers picked up more than 51,175 pounds of trash from Brazoria County beaches last weekend as part of a statewide coastal cleanup effort, shattering a record set at this year's spring cleanup.

Dara Dalton has used the water off Surfside Beach as her playground for years, first to swim and now to surf.

Howdy! It's time to remind everyone that Saturday we are having our semi-annual beach cleanup.

A lot of excitement surrounded Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson's recent announcement of the biggest beach protection program in our state's history.

When Wallace Neeley drove over the Quintana bridge after evacuating from Hurricane Ike, dunes had been flattened and beach sand was so far inland the town had a new look.

For Surfside Beach, it really wasn't easy being green. It took a glancing, but destructive, hit last summer from Hurricane Ike, but now Surfside's making the most of that setback to rebuild Stahlman Park while striking a blow of its own for the environment.

The company planning to showcase its wave-energy technology off the Freeport coast has begun removing an old pier in Surfside Beach, but plans to build another one.

It has been one short year since Hurricane Ike gave us a last-minute reprieve from its worst, but for some of our neighbors it has been a long, hard road to recovery from a storm that robbed them of all sense of normalcy.

Residents will pay a higher property tax rate to the village in fiscal year 2009-10, but the actual amount they pay shouldn't be much different after elected officials adopted the effective tax rate.

Bobbie Slezinsky enjoyed a cool Saturday morning breeze that eased into her open window in Brazoria last September while her cousin sat on the porch.