Fifty-Three Port Aransas High School students will receive their diplomas on Friday, May 26. Graduation will be held at PAHS in the Doyle Marek Gym at 7 p.m. This year’s valedictorian is Marissa Harder, and the salutatorian is Vivian Nhan. At PAHS, Harder was vice president of the National Honor Society and a two-year member of NHS. She was on […]

Former Port Aransas mayor, school board president and dedicated Texas Aggie, James Horace “Jim” Sherrill died Sunday, May 21, 2017, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease in Corpus Christi where he had resided with his wife, Nona, since 2000. He was 87. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 27, at Seaside Memorial Park and Funeral Home, […]

How much construction and development has been going on lately in Port Aransas? A look around town, interviews with developers and an examination of building permit numbers provide conflicting answers, at least on the surface. So far this year, the City of Port Aransas Planning Department has issued 49 residential building permits worth a total of $20.2 million. That would […]

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