2024-03-28 E-Edition

Shredding the surf

Ten-year-old Yates Harris of Port Aransas rides a wave during a surfing contest at Horace Caldwell Pier on Saturday, March 23. Forty-two kids from up and down the Texas coast took part in the contest, the first event of the Texas Surf Camps Lone Star Surf Series. Yates, the son of Cayce and Joel Harris, took second place in both […]

City decides on different spot for access road



The Port Aransas City Council has officially decided to move the location of a planned new beach access road. For the purpose of building the proposed road, the council, at a meeting on Thursday, March 21, unanimously voted to vacate a city-owned easement directly adjacent to the south side of Cinnamon Shore North that stretched from the beach to State […]

New park’s design complete



The design of a new park next to the Port Aransas Community Center is complete, and the City Council could award a construction contract for the project at a meeting in April, according to city officials. A vacant lot the city purchased from Nueces County in 2022 and an adjacent portion of East Oakes Avenue between Church Street and North […]

Performing arts center to be named after Coles



Port Aransas ISD’s planned new performing arts facility will be named after the two most veteran music teachers in the school district’s history. It will be called the Jim and Judy Cole Performing Arts Center, the Port Aransas ISD Board of Trustees decided in a unanimous vote on Wednesday, March 20. The next morning, the Coles visited the school district’s […]

Community band

A group of musicians got together to entertain the folks who showed up to party at the last Second Saturday party of the season at the Farley Boat Works on Saturday, March 9. The boat works will begin the Second Saturday parties again in December. From left are Matt Edquist on mandolin, Pete Edquist on electric guitar, T.J. Davis on […]

Public comment sought for dredging issue

Public comment is being sought on an important document related to a proposal to significantly deepen the ship channel in Port Aransas and extend it further into the Gulf of Mexico than it is now. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is inviting the public to comment on the Port of Corpus Christi’s Channel Deepening Project Final Environmental Impact Statement. […]

SandFest 2024: No RV parking spaces in lots at this event

With the 2024 edition of Texas SandFest a little less than a month away, folks need to take note of an important change that organizers have made to this year’s festival. Many people bring their RVs to the beach to camp during the events. This year there will be no designated parking spaces for RVs at the SandFest grounds. RVs […]

Getting to work

The City of Port Aransas broke ground on the new fire station at the corner of Ninth Street and Avenue C on Wednesday, March 20. The new facility will be 19,270 square feet, two stories high and have the capacity to house a full-time fire staff with sleeping quarters as well as EMS operations. Construction is expected to be completed […]

Port A police still looking for fatal shooting suspect

As of Monday, March 25, the Port Aransas Police Department had not made any arrests related to the fatal shooting that took place on the beach just before midnight on Monday, March 11. That’s according to Lt. James Stokes, with the police department. On Friday, March 15, the police department obtained two arrest warrants for Francisco Espinoza, 26, who “is […]