Port Aransas, TX

PDF of print edition Candidates may throw hats in political ring starting Monday BY MARY HENKEL JUDSON SOUTH JETTY EDITOR       The filing begins Monday, Feb. 11, for positions on the city council, school board and water district. It continues through Monday, March 10. Early voting will be April 28 through May 6, and Election Day is Saturday, May 10. More ... Golf cart bridge construction to get started soon BY PHIL REYNOLDS SOUTH JETTY REPORTER       By mid-May, a bridge should stretch over State Hwy. 361, allowing golf carts to go from one part of Newport Beach and Golf to the other. More ... Up, up and away!       A helicopter carries a wooden power pole away for disposal on Saturday, Feb. 2, as part of a multi-million-dollar project to replace wood power poles with bigger concrete poles carrying more powerful transmission lines along State Highway 361. The chopper, a K-Max K-1200 owned by Rainier Heli-Lift... More ... Cotter traffic to be re-routed next week       Expect to take a different route on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 12-13, if you had planned to come down Cotter Avenue. The Harbor Condominiums project - construction of condominiums in the 300 block of West Cotter Avenue - will have traffic blocked those two days to run utilities across the str... More ... Big beads       Wearing a strand of oversized beads around her neck, Tracey Gutierrez of Port Aransas rides a float in the Mardi Gras Parade. More ... Council 'goes for broke' on harbor projects Fish cleaning station, restrooms, amphitheater, sign improvements get nod BY PHIL REYNOLDS SOUTH JETTY REPORTER       City council members on Thursday, Jan. 31, told the city staff to go ahead with negotiations with a contractor for nearly all the proposed first-stage improvements at Dennis Dreyer Municipal Harbor and Roberts Point Park. More ... Diesel spill at MSI cleaned up quickly BY PHIL REYNOLDS SOUTH JETTY REPORTER       A 30-gallon diesel fuel spill in The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute (MSI) marina on Tuesday, Feb. 5, "could have been worse," a Coast Guard spokesman said late Tuesday. The spill happened about 10 a.m. Tuesday when the Aransas Corpus Christi Pilot Association boat was over... More ...