When Port Aransas High School students play football, they’re probably going to do it at the beach. Jace Maxham carries the pigskin while Dylan Denton pursues him in sands near Sand Castle Drive on a recent day.

Port Aransas High School track star Collin Barr runs in the 1,600-meter event at the state meet in Austin on Saturday, May 16. He also ran in the 3,200-meter race. How did he do? Look inside.

This edition contains the South Jetty’s Summer Visitors’ Guide, full of information on dining, activities, night life, events, lodging and much more.

Development in Port Aransas isn’t quite up to last year’s rapid pace, but it certainly isn’t dragging. As of last week, City Hall so far this year had issued 42 residential building permits valued at a total of $12.1 million and two commercial permits valued at about $502,000. During the same period last year, the city issued 67 permits valued […]

A series of rainstorms over the past few weeks has produced record rainfall and a tornado warning that had many Port Aransans taking cover. Port Aransas school officials had students leave their classrooms and sit in school hallways, which are considered to be safer, after the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for areas of Nueces County early in […]

It started as a twitch in his thumb and forefinger 10 years ago. At his worst, the former Port Aransas ISD basketball coach and teacher Joe Kocurek said his Parkinson’s disease gave him five twitches per second. Earlier this year, Kocurek had surgery that helped relieve his Parkinson’s symptoms, reducing tremors caused by the disease. “I’m able to function a […]