• E is for exemplary: Port Aransas ISD, high school, elementary get top rating

• Jobs spared from city budget reductions

• Worldly workforce: Island businesses solve labor woes by hiring foreign student employees

• Dirt turns: Ground is broken for NERR headquarters building at MSI

• Tony Amos: Late night rescue at Goose Island

• Rachel Pearson: Clear mind and body in the wilderness

• For the birds: Wednesday was bird walk from heaven

• Kids’ melodrama fills PACT stage with lots of laughs

• New student orientation is slated at middle school

• Registration is Wednesday for students new to district

• Fishing report: Plenty of red snapper, amberjack and grouper caught

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