Editor's note: This is the second in a series of four articles explaining the propositions that will be on the Port Aransas city charter amendment election on May 12. More...
The Port Aransas Education Foundation has announced 13 grant awards totaling more than $20,000 to pay for wide-ranging supplies and programs within the Port Aransas Independent School District. More...
Police and school officials say they effectively handled a recent bomb threat at Port Aransas High School, quickly arresting a suspect, notifying parents and repeatedly searching the school. More...
Redistricting by the Texas Legislature is seldom pretty. But the massacre in congressional districting in 2003, besides being unnecessary, had all the subtlety of a multiple ax murder. Sen. More...
Seeing flags flying at half-staff in memory of the lives lost at Virginia Tech last week has been especially poignant. It may be because our daughter is a college student, and it could have been her listed among the victims. More...
The opening of red snapper season on Saturday, April 21, has offshore anglers thinking about little else. They have been rewarded with plentiful catches after their long wait. More...
Port Aransas High School tennis players warmed up for the regional tournament by hosting a regional qualifiers tournament here on Saturday, April 21. Players from 18 other cities as nearby as Rockport and as far away as Mason competed. More...
Things didn't go the Marlins' way when they took to the diamond on Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21. They lost a home game to Charlotte on Friday, 1-20, and went on the road to Pettus where they were handed a 2-16 loss. More...
DAILY + Joint Effort Leisure Ministry (JELM) Center, 113 S. Alister behind Community Presbyterian Church office, welcome room open to Winter Texans. Coffee, cookies and activity schedules. More...
Voters are invited to hear from candidates for Place 5 on the school board tonight, Thursday, April 26. Candidates' Night, a voter education forum sponsored by the South Jetty, will feature the only contested race on the May 12 ballot. More...
Talent shows, music, a silent auction, barbecue and more are in store for participants in the second annual Superheroes Fishing for a Cure Relay For Life cancer walk at Roberts Point Park. More...
Port Aransas schools experience the troubling, the uplifting
STAFF PHOTO BY DAN PARKER Congratulatory hug Vanessa Brundrett, vice president of the Port Aransas Education Foundation, gives a congratulatory hug to Port Aransas High School teacher Leif Johnson, who won a $1,206.75 grant that will help bring elect More...
The final four performances of "Barefoot in the Park" will be presented tonight, Thursday, April 26, through Sunday, April 29. The performances, at the Port Aransas Community Theatre (PACT), will be at 7:30 p.m. tonight through Saturday night. More...
Port Aransas will continue a centuries old tradition started in southern Europe when the third annual Blessing of the Fleet is held here on Saturday, April 28. More...
Texas General Land Office Commissioner Jerry Patterson will be in Port Aransas to kick-off the 21st annual Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup on Saturday, April 28. Patterson will be introduced by Mayor Claude Brown at 8:45 a.m. on the beach at Avenue G. More...
Parents of students at H.G. Olsen Elementary School are invited to the final meeting of the school year for the Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO). The meeting will be Tuesday, May 1, from 6 to 6:30 p.m. in the elementary school gym. More...
Yolanda L. Mendoza of Port Aransas died Sunday, April 22, 2007, in a Corpus Christi hospital after an 11-year battle with kidney disease. She was 63. Mendoza was born to Adan and Elida Castellano on Aug. 9, 1943, in Falfurrias. More...
Todd Lenamon, brother of Christy Watkins of Port Aransas, died Thursday, April 19, 2007. He was 43. Lenamon was born in Baytown on Sept. 25, 1963. More...
June Wachholz Obley of Anthony, Kan., and Port Aransas, died Saturday, April 21, 2007, in Anthony. She was 77. Obley was born June 18, 1929, to Frank L. and Agnes (Haley) Wachholz in Anthony. More...