Members of the Port A Spoonbills, a birding team, placed first in the 2021 Big Sit! Central Coast as entrants in the Great Texas Birding Classic. The Big Sit was held on Monday, April 29, at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center tower. Members of the team signed up to identify birds from within a 50-foot radius circle from 6 a.m. […]
Can you get out?
Solve riddles and crack codes at community theater escape roomLooking for something fun to do with the family? Something that is out of the sand and sun? The Port Aransas Community Theatre is hosting an escape room event, the “Lost Treasures of the Laguna Madre.” Book an appointment for your group to search for the lost treasure by solving riddles and cracking codes to progress through to the end […]
Public is invited to Hight memorial
A memorial service for former Port Aransas resident Weldon Hight is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday, June 13, at the Community Center. The public is invited. The Community Center is at 408 N. Alister St. Hight, 76, died on May 13 at a Corpus Christi nursing home. He was a resident of the Ingleside area at the time of his […]
A complete roll over
Police officers examine a wrecked car in the 100 block of Beach Access Road 1 on Saturday, June 5. EMS transported the man and woman inside to Corpus Christi Medical Center Bay Area. Their conditions are unknown.
No straight jacket – yet
I’ll be honest, social media has done a number on my mental health. Combine that with a pandemic and, yeah, I’m in a funk. Then my friend Nicole Boyer did something that made a difference. On her Facebook page she asked that her “friends” focus on the positive instead of the negative, and the resulting comments were more than just […]
Abbott autocratic move; George P. announces for AG
Gov. Greg Abbott, running for a third term in 2022, may hope to build his national name ID to possibly land on a presidential ticket. But having the Texas House Democrats walk out and shut down the legislative session to kill a voting bill Democrats say is discriminatory may not be the national publicity he needs. And then, saying he’ll […]
In your heart do you believe Trump is right?
In the 1964 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Barry Goldwater had a slogan: “In your heart you know he’s right.” That was aimed at deflecting the stereotype about Goldwater and Republicans in general that they were an uncaring lot. It is a smear that still works to some extent for modern Democrats. In his return to political campaigning last Saturday, former […]
Letters to the Editor
No justification Response to Letter to the Editor Dated: Thursday June 3, 2021, titled Hypocrisy. Response: In mid May I took great exception to the use of lewd language flown on flags around Port Aransas. I stand by it, there is no real justification for indulging lewd language. It is no more a First Amendment Right than yelling fire in […]
Beckner
A celebration of life will be held for James Domenic Beckner on Saturday, June 12, at 3 p.m. at Charlie Marshall Funeral Home in Aransas Pass. Friends and family are asked to dress “Jimi” style in island wear and biker clothes. The scattering of the ashes will be a private family event. Beckner died Tuesday, May 18, 2021, at home […]
