The South Jetty newspaper’s best Port Aransas photos of 2017 depicted everything from a police struggle with a Spring Breaker to Hurricane Harvey’s destruction to remarkable sand sculptures created during SandFest. (All photos © 2017, South Jetty.)
Harvey the horrible
Top Story of 2017The past 12 months have been hard on Port Aransas, particularly the past four-and-a-half months since Hurricane Harvey turned the town upside down the night of Friday, Aug. 25. Even in addition to Harvey, the year has been eventful. We celebrated achievements, moved the town forward, mourned the loss of some of our best citizens, and, finally pulled, and continue […]
Best of the Blotter
Reports that come from the daily logs of the Port Aransas Police Department aren’t the stuff of your ordinary small town. No, in Port Aransas, police encounter a much more, er, “interesting” set of circumstances. Here we offer some of the more colorful encounters from 2017, written largely by reporter Zach Perkins and compiled by staff writer Vivian Carlson. The […]
Burnt pies? No competition
The pressure’s on. You know. New Year’s resolutions. Lose weight. Exercise. Work harder. Be nicer. Learn a new skill or a new language. Listen more. Talk less. I spent New Year’s morning reading about them in the San Antonio Express-News and Wall Street Journal. By noon I needed a therapist. Years ago, I made a resolution not to make New […]
Farenthold’s problems just keep coming
Blake Farenthold was an unlikely congressman to begin with. And his unforeseen and surprising unplanned exit from Congress seemed just as unlikely three months ago. That was back before Oct. 5, when an out-of-nowhere sexual harassment tsunami caught several movie and media personalities from behind, flat-footed, and then engulfed the political world. In the beginning, in 2010, Farenthold won election […]
Try a little tenderness in 2018
DUBLIN, Ireland — “Try a Little Tenderness” is a song written by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly and Harry M. Woods. According to Wikipedia, it was first recorded on Dec. 8, 1932, by the Ray Noble Orchestra (with vocals by Val Rosing). Probably these names are as unfamiliar to us today as the demonstration of tenderness is in our modern political […]
Letters to the Editor
Government by the rich I don’t like paying taxes any more than most people. However, if we ran our household finances like our government, we’d each have first, second or third or more 100- year mortgages; that our great-grandchildren would have to pay off. That is, if they didn’t continue to borrow more and more. The US is a debtor […]
