Port Aransas, TX

PDF of print edition Communication to outside world cut off again City's 9-1-1 emergency number was out for an hour BY PHIL REYNOLDS SOUTH JETTY REPORTER       City officials are working to ensure that it doesn't happen again, but City Manager Michael Kovacs said if Mustang Island again loses telephone communications with the "outside world," the best thing is for residents to call the local police non-emergency number. More ... Help! Volunteers for work at center needed Saturday BY PHIL REYNOLDS SOUTH JETTY REPORTER       Port Aransas' Community Center will take a big step toward being refurbished on Saturday, Jan. 12, and it needs your help. Saturday has been declared a work day. Members of the Port Aransas Boatmen Inc. will gather to begin yanking the old siding and roof overhangs off the building, and they're l... More ... It's a Lab thing       Bailey, an 8-month-old female chocolate Labrador retriever, lunges at a ball (if you look closely, you can see Bailey's name written faintly on the ball) thrown by her owner, John Garlanger, of Belton, at Roberts Point Park on Thursday, Jan. 3. Bailey actually is a gentle dog. But, like most dogs... More ... Christie Campbell loses battle with cancer PAHS, UT grad remembered for poise, grace, strength of character BY DAN PARKER SOUTH JETTY REPORTER       Students saw something new on the wall of Port Aransas High School teacher Melanie Mayer's classroom when they returned to classes on Monday, Jan. 7, after the holiday break. It was an essay written by one of Mayer's former students, Christie Campbell, who graduated near the top of her PAHS class... More ... TWO MEMORIAL SERVICES SET       Two memorial services will be held for Christie Campbell, a 1998 Port Aransas High School graduate who died of cancer in Austin on Friday, Jan. 4. One service will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, at First Baptist Church in Port Aransas. More ... PAISD establishes scholarship in honor of Christie Campbell       The Port Aransas Independent School District has established a new scholarship in memory of Christie Campbell, a 1998 Port Aransas High School graduate who died on Friday, Jan. 4. Campbell's family is asking that folks contribute to the scholarship fund in lieu of sending flowers to her memorial ... More ...