(This story contains updates.) Beginning tomorrow, Thursday, July 16, Port Aransas beaches will be closed to vehicular access until Aug. 1 – a period stretching for more than two weeks, according to city and county officials. The vehicle ban is set to go into effect at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow, according to Port Aransas Mayor Charles Bujan. Nueces County Judge Barbara […]
PAEF cancels Casino Night
FREECasino Night, the Port Aransas Education Foundation’s (PAEF) lone annual fundraising event, has been cancelled due to concerns about spreading COVID-19, according to President Beth Owens. “With (COVID) numbers like this, we had to cancel Casino Night,” she said. PAEF board members made the decision to cancel at an emergency board meeting on Tuesday, July 14. Casino Night was scheduled […]
Location, location
New site sought for hotel-conference centerPlans have been in place for months for a hotel-conference center to be built in a public-private venture in the Cinnamon Shore South subdivision in Port Aransas. But those plans might change soon. Cinnamon Shore developer Jeff Lamkin said he now is proposing to build the facility at a different Port Aransas location: On a piece of land that’s on […]
COVID cases spike in county
County-produced counts show that the number of Port Aransas coronavirus cases has held steady at 21 for several weeks, but that tally apparently doesn’t accurately represent how many positive cases really are in town. Workers have been overwhelmed by the job of counting results and haven’t been able to categorize them by zip code on the website of the Corpus […]
Valiant effort has unfortunate ending
OutdoorsAfter the morning sun has risen beyond the point of providing a colorful sunrise photo, I often drive the beach to look for raptors in hopes of capturing one on camera. Depending on the season, a variety of hawks and falcons, or maybe a crested caracara, will perch on the dunes to search for prey. If I’m lucky, I might […]
SandFest cancels October event
SandFest, which had been set for Oct. 2 to 4, has been cancelled after a decision by the organization’s board on Monday, July 13. The event, which draws thousands to the beach in Port Aransas each year, earlier was rescheduled from the usual April date in response to federal, state and local recommendations concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. And now the […]
Port A chamber gets new CEO
The Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Bureau has named Brett Stawar as its new president and chief executive officer, according to a chamber news release. Stawar will take over for Keith McMullin, who has been acting as interim president and CEO since April. McMullin took over for interim president and CEO Bob Lander, who became ill with a […]
State: Masks must be used in schools
At least for now, the Texas Education Agency’s position is that masks will be mandatory for students and teachers in Texas counties that have more than 20 positive COVID-19 cases – like Nueces County, which includes Port Aransas – when a return is made to in-person classes this fall. New health guidelines issued by the TEA on Tuesday, July 7, […]
