Longtime Port Aransas resident Barbara Behrens, a tireless community volunteer, died late Wednesday night at a Corpus Christi hospital. Behrens, 83, was a retired teacher. She and her sister, Port Aransas resident Arlene Hughes, were named Citizens of the Year in 2008 by the Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce and Tourist Bureau. Both have put in thousands of hours of […]

The amounts that Port Aransas customers were billed for natural gas service this month are estimates, not based on precise readings of gas meters, according to City Hall. City gas department workers didn’t get a chance to do meter readings for the bills because they were busy for many hours on end, tackling emergency gas system repairs during the big […]