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Inside the Moon Nesting Turtles A7 Backwater Adventures A7 Islands in Pictures A9 Beautiful Birds A11 Issue 837 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 April 30, 2020 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE Around The What’s Open? Island The Island Reopens By Mary Craft By Dale Rankin Island businesses are coming back to life after the shutdown. The new Our little sandbar was in danger of Visitors packed beaches; ignored restrictions rules kick in Friday morning. Here is a sinking into the Gulf last weekend look at what will be open. as visitors bored with staying home Restaurant and hotels back in business came streaming in from OTB and Restaurants packed the beaches. Texas Governor Snoopy’s Pier will be opening their Greg Abbott took the first step in dining area on Friday 11 am - 9 pm re-opening the Texas economy this daily and will still be offering their week and we include language from curbside service. They now have his order in this issue. The crucial a full bar. You can also have your thing for our Island is that things are meal delivered to Marker 37 with settled by the time summer tourist plenty of outdoor shaded waterfront season rolls around. seating. Call 949-8815 for curbside. One of the items Abbott is pushing, Scuttlebutt’s Bar & Grill is going but not requiring, is that Texans wear to continue serving their happy hour facemasks. Might we suggest that menu as carryout 3 - 7 pm daily. For as many of us flail about to find the now there will be no inside dining. right facemask to suit our needs and You can order online or call personality that we think about putting 949-6769. our names on them. We almost went looking for the shotgun this week Mikel May’s Beachside Grill when a masked man appeared in our will be opening their dining room backyard unannounced. Just as we North Padre Island Beaches on Saturday, April 25th 2020. Photo by Debbie Noble. on Friday and are also taking reservations. Call 949-7437. were looking for the shotgun shells By Dale Rankin he whipped out a hedge trimmer and and Austin media outlets that beaches to door and Island motels opened Brooklyn Pie will not be open for Visitors to Padre and Mustang island we realized it was the yard guy. Has on Padre Island were open during their doors for the first time in several inside dining on Friday until they beaches did not wait for Governor anyone else been halfway through a daylight hours brought crowds that weeks and reported rentals at or have a satisfactory procedure for Greg Abbott’s order this week to conversation lately before you figure were closer to the Fourth of July than near one-hundred percent capacity. keeping their employees safe. They reopen beaches and businesses out exactly who you are talking to? late April. Restrictions remained in place will continue to have take out and across the state. A combination of requiring social distancing on Nueces Social distancing was physically delivery. Call 949-1100. Beach access closed or restricted-use beaches from County beaches but proved difficult impossible in many areas as vehicles, Rock & Rolls Sushi will be opening Galveston to South Padre, the first to enforce as city beach patrols on warm weekend of the season, and mostly from people who live outside on Friday by reservation only. Call word across San Antonio, Houston, the Corpus Christi area, lined up door Beaches cont. on A4 949-1110. Island Italian Restaurant will be opening Friday and hours will be 1 - Lack of Rules Leaves Corpus Attorney 8 pm daily including Sundays. For delivery call 949-7737. Christi Short Term Rentals General Ruling Costa Sur is opening its dining room this Friday and is also taking Beach access north of Packery Untracked Could Impact reservations. They are continuing Channel is limited as the access their curbside service. Hours are 11 road at Newport Pass is closed for Man shot Saturday at short-term rental on FBISD Land am - midnight and they are closed construction and the gate to the beach Sundays. Call 945-8303. at Mustang Island State Park is closed on Padre Island meaning the only way to get to the Padre Island Padre Pizzeria will not be opening public beach at Mustang Island State this Friday but will continue take Park is through Beach Access Road City still working on local ordinance Can the district out and delivery. They are closed 3 just south of Corpus Christi Pass. lease out its 6.7 Sundays. Call 949-0787. The beach gate was open early in the By Dale Rankin Surfside Sandwich Shoppe will week but was closed during the busy some involving shots fired, at short- When Corpus Christi Police arrived be opening their indoor and outdoor weekend. A park spokesperson said term rental properties inside Island acre tract on Island at in the 13000 block of Suntan dining on Friday. Call 949-0505. the opening and closing of the gate is neighborhoods. Officers say there Avenue on Padre Island just after canal? up to the City of Corpus Christi. have also been regular complaints Doc’s Restaurant will be opening midnight on Friday, they found a from residents about noise emanating Friday with tables spaced 6 - 10 feet 35 year-old man with five gunshot from houses in their neighborhoods apart. They offer to-go food that wounds. which are leased out for short-term can be eaten downstairs at also 25% People in the house told officers visitors. capacity where it is puppy friendly. they were sitting in the backyard of They will be utilizing disposable In a related problem there are regular the house when they heard a series of menus and condiments. complaints from short-term renters gunshots in rapid succession but saw who appear at Island homes only to Thai Sun Island Cafe will be nothing. Beyond that they provided find the home occupied. Scammers opening their dining room on Friday little information and a resident who 6.7 acre tract owned by FBISD. use photographs from homes they at 5 pm. For take-out call 949-3128. happened to be outside at the early do not own that are for sale to post 12:20 a.m. hour said he saw a “black By Dale Rankin Angry Marlin Restaurant will With Newport Pass and the beach on short-term rental sites and collect four-door vehicle” flee the scene. A be opening Friday and will also be gate closed the only way to access the rentals fees upfront. When the A pending ruling by the Texas police spokesman said on Monday accepting reservations for both their the beach north of Packery Channel homes sell and new residents move Attorney General’s office could have that investigators believe the shooting indoor and outdoor spacious seating. is through Zahn Road. That will be in the scammers continue to use the a major impact on the future of a 6.7 was gang related but have little The outdoor Tiki Bar will be open the case until work at Newport Pass is dated photographs to list the home as acre tract of land owned by the Flour else to go on. The man is in critical for drinks. The Drive Band will play finished or the beach gate is opened, available for short-term stay. Bluff Independent School District on condition. Padre Island. on the patio on Friday night and the whichever comes first. local “OTB” will play on Saturday 6 But according to officers the April 25 No city rules The land is strategically located Meetings in the time of social - 10 pm. They are closed Sundays shooting has a common denominator In January Austin-based Vrbo at the intersection of Whitecap and Mondays. Call 210-272-9973. distancing with several police calls in recent – Vacation Rentals by Owners Boulevard and the canal just north of Dragon Fly Restaurant will open months on Padre Island; the residents – rated Corpus Christi and Port the roadway and has been owned by Meetings of two Island organizations Friday. Reservations are suggested. of the house were renting it short-term Aransas collectively as the third are being effected by the restrictions Land cont. on A5 Call 949 2224. Open cont. on A3 on public gatherings. to use as a party house. In this case, best destination in the country for officers say, the short-term renters visitors looking for short-term rentals The first is the regular monthly were from Beeville and the shooting in private dwellings with an average A little Island history meeting of the Flour Bluff ISD at is believed to be gang related. A cost of $60 per night to stay in a 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 30. 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