Starting Monday, Aug. 14, the Port Aransas Trolley will no longer carry passengers on a loop around the city for free. The Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) has imposed a 25-cent fare on the trolley, which has been free since its inception. Also going up are fares on the Port Aransas Flexi-B, the bus that carries passengers from here […]
HEADING FOR THE GULF OF MEXICO
Atlantis, an offshore drilling platform, slowly makes its way from the Gulf Marine Fabricators yard at Ingleside past Cline’s Landing in Port Aransas to the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, Aug. 7. It is scheduled to be moored in the Gulf about 185 miles south of New Orleans in Green Canyon block 787 in a record water depth of 7,074 […]
Fun fish
Amber Gray, 9, of Gatesville holds the lookdown she caught in the Capt. Hope Devlin Fishing Tournament for kids last weekend. See Page 1B for more.
Gas prices keeping RVers in Texas
First-time RV travelers, baby boomers discover Port AransasBY DAN PARKER SOUTH JETTY Winter used to be the only time of year that recreational vehicle parks in Port Aransas filled to capacity. Not any more. Port Aransas RV parks in recent summers have found themselves packed with motorhomes, fifth-wheels and other RVs, and the trend has continued this year, according to some RV park owners and managers. Pioneer […]
Texas politics
Gore bringing a serious messageOzone Man . . . “This guy is so far out in the environmental extreme we’ll be up to our necks in owls and out of work for every American.” – President George H. W. Bush about vice presidential candidate Al Gore in 1992 That statement has a poignant echo for people suffering in heat waves around the country. It […]
Spinoff
Uncle Joe's letter to college students[Editor’s note: The following is a letter written to the South Jetty publishers’ daughter, Libby Judson, by her uncle, Joe Henkel, when she left for college in 2001. The value of the letter goes beyond the immediate family, so it has been edited slightly in order to share it with all young people who, in the next few weeks, will […]
A Texas voice
Conservation is often puzzlingRecycle. Reduce. Reuse. The mantra of conservation. When you are through with the newspaper, turn it in for recycling along with glass bottles, plastic, cardboard, etc. Cut off problems at the source by reducing what you use, be it gasoline (Hey, did you know you don’t have to drive 70 mph on the highway?), electricity, plastic bags or water. Delay […]
Sage observations
A simple matter of additionWhy does everything cost more nowadays? Simple: Addition. Electricity to our tooth brushes. Color added to our toilet tissue. Color added to our TV. Dishwashers to which we’ve added detergents. Machines to chop and cut and make ice and compress garbage and freeze food and pop up toast. We’ve added plastic bags for edible leftovers and plastic bags for inedible […]
