SOUTH JETTY The city council will ask voters to approve a total of $6.46 million in bonds on Nov. 7 to pay for a program designed to improve drainage in the city and to repair a number of streets as well as fix the leaky roof on the city hall/civic center and add office space to that building. The streets […]
CURTAIN RISES ON NEW SCHOOL YEAR
Wyatt Arnold, 3, checks out what his big sister, Sailor, 4, and Ian Johnson, 4, will have in store for them in pre-kindergarten during a Meet the Teacher event sponsored by H.G. Olsen Elementary School teacher Ginny Shaw. The event was held Friday, Aug. 18, prior to the first day of school on Monday, Aug. 21.
South Jetty launches online edition
The South Jetty is introducing its online edition this week. Online browsers will be able to access the entire newspaper, including reproductions of each page of the newspaper, (known as PDFs) by going online to www.portasouthjetty.com. This week’s edition may not be available until late today, Thursday, Aug. 24, for Internet customers who are served by CenturyTel. Effective with the […]
Sage observations
Limbaugh blows itI was listening to my favorite radio station yesterday. On the air was the Rush Limbaugh show that, I must confess, helps me to have fresh bread on the table. He’s probably the most listened to of all the voices you hear on the radio that feeds me. I listen to him almost daily, for he is a remarkable radio […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Pelican saved Last Saturday there was a wonderful beach mercy near Horace Caldwell Pier. While walking the beach early Saturday morning, I came upon a large brown pelican that allowed me to get closer than I have ever been to a brown pelican. I soon saw why. He was tangled in monofilament, and a huge hook was down over his […]
Texas politics
Five years later, pain is still hereDave MCNEELY NEW YORK CITY – I stand at the edge of the abyss, dug out by heavy machinery in the months after terrorists crashed airplanes loaded with fuel into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. People still cluster, silently staring at the hole, where construction of memorial is under way. The fence around the memorial site has […]
Spinoff
A new era dawns at South JettyThis is an exciting time at the South Jetty. As of this week, we are offering online subscriptions to the newspaper. Not only that, within the next few weeks (or less) you will be able to go to our Web site and order prints of photos that appear in the South Jetty (and even some that don’t, such as all […]
A Texas voice
Growing older is not always easyThe former president turned 60 on Aug. 19 and admitted that the big six-oh sneaked up on him. “I hate it, it’s true,” Reuters said Clinton told the XVI International AIDS Conference in Canada. “For most of my working life, I was the youngest person doing whatever I was doing, then one day I woke up and I was the […]