Port Aransas, TX

PDF of print edition Boom! Fireworks show on 4th of July to start about 'dark-thirty'       Independence Day fireworks in Port Aransas can be viewed by land or by sea on Wednesday, July 4. The city, in conjunction with Charles Butt of H-E-B Food Stores and the Lydia Ann Lighthouse, will present the show starting at "darkthirty", or about 9 p.m. More ... Ooof!       Port Aransas beach lifeguard Brodie Wallace hits the sand while diving for a volleyball during a game with other lifeguards on Friday, June 22. Beach lifeguards play volleyball, run on the beach, swim and do other exercises to keep in shape. More ... Nose in books, feet in water Scientist David McKee named to Boatmen's 2007 Hall of Fame BY PHIL REYNOLDS SOUTH JETTY REPORTER       David McKee, one of three chosen to be inducted into the 2007 Port Aransas Boatmen, Inc.'s Hall of Fame, almost doesn't remember when he wasn't fishing. "When I was a kid, I ran around with a fishing rod in one hand and a B-B gun in the other," he recalled. More ... Fish overboard!       Got 'M On deckhand Kenny Hill surfaces between his boat and the bulkhead at Fisherman's Wharf Sunday after diving and retrieving a 44.1-pound dorado that accidentally had fallen into the drink. The Got 'M On had just docked for the Port Aransas Masters tournament weigh-in, and Hill and Capt. K.T. More ... Vacancy Trustees taking applications to fill Smith's post BY DAN PARKER SOUTH JETTY REPORTER       Bob Smith has resigned from the Port Aransas Independent School District Board of Trustees. "Most of the goals and objectives I set out to accomplish have been met, and I will soon be relocating outside the district," Smith wrote in a resignation letter that school board president Rick Adams rea... More ... Make note: Deadline changes for newspaper due to holiday       Deadline for news and advertising to be included in the July 5 edition of the South Jetty will be noon Monday, July 2. Deadline for letters will be 9 a.m. Monday. More ... Having a ball       Michael Mendoza, 6, of Port Aransas, plays with a beach ball at the beach during a program of the Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department on Friday, June 22. More ... Council to take look at operations department BY PHIL REYNOLDS SOUTH JETTY REPORTER       City council members will take up a different kind of maintenance during a workshop scheduled for today, Thursday, June 28, at 4 p.m. in the council chambers. While they've had beach maintenance on their minds for a while, councilmen will turn to city maintenance questions during today's workshop... More ...