Gazing through eye protection, students check out the solar eclipse outside Brundrett Middle School on Monday, April 8. In back, from left, are Claire Harris and Kylee Craig. Maggie Hayes is in the center, and in front are Halle Fish, left, and Madalyn Franks. It was mostly cloudy, but folks all over Port Aransas still were able to see the […]
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Hall of famers
Some Port Aransas residents were inducted into the Texas Saltwater Fishing Hall of Fame on April 6 during an event in Galveston. The Port Aransas inductees were Bruce Furlow and his late wife, Barbara Furlow; Patricia Hawn Wallace; and Dee Wallace. Above, holding plaques, are Hawn, center; Dee Wallace, right; and Tom Furlow, son of Bruce and Barbara Furlow. Tom […]
Woman dead after truck’s channel plunge
A woman was found, dead, in the wreckage of a pickup truck after it plunged off the south jetty and into the ship channel in Port Aransas this week. Authorities hadn’t yet released the woman’s name at deadline for this edition of the South Jetty. The pickup truck went into the channel on the evening of Monday, April 8, after […]
Nixon was superintendent of Port Aransas ferry system
The ferry that crossed the Corpus Christi Ship Channel shortly after 9 a.m. on Friday, April 5, carried a white hearse. Thomas Cantay “T.C.” Nixon, former superintendent of the Port Aransas ferry system, was making the trip across the ship channel, one last time. After the channel crossing and a few blasts from the ferry’s horn, T.C.’s hearse received a […]
PAHS Lady Marlins defeat Woodsboro after Three Rivers loss
It was a big win for the Port Aransas High School Lady Marlins when the team edged Woodsboro, which previously was unbeaten in district play. PAHS nabbed the 2- 1 victory at home on Friday, April 5. With that win, “we helped ourselves considerably” in competition for a playoff spot, said Jonathan Sheffield, coach of the Lady Marlins. “It was […]
Looking for answers in the mud
Institute InsightsExplaining to your friends and family you are going on a cruise makes it sound like a vacation, including sleeping in till lunch, sunbathing by the pool or playing shuffleboard on deck. Instead, I boarded the Research Vessel Pelican only to be happily covered in seawater and mud. This scientific cruise in May 2023 was one of several investigating the […]
Hi, Easter bunny!
Children at the Trinity-by-the-Sea Day School got a visit from the Easter bunny in their classrooms on Thursday, March 28. From left, children in a classroom full of 3- and 4-year-olds were Isabelle Robertson, Thomas Shanklin (partly obscured), Merritt Winton, Lawrence Cutrone and Kora Cox. The bunny’s visit came courtesy of the Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department.
Biking on the beach
Joel Yandell and his girlfriend, Shelly Henderson, both of Westville, Iowa, pause to watch a kite surfer during the couple’s bike ride with their dogs on the beach at I.B. Magee Jr. Beach Park on a recent day. Their dogs are Ditch, left, a Chesapeake retriever and great Pyrenees mix; and Tito, a Dalmatian and Great Pyrenees mix.
Grosse kept giving all the way to the end
He was a longtime Port Aransas real estate figure, former city councilman and major donor toward a variety of local causes. Mark Grosse, who had cancer, died while in hospice care in Port Aransas late on the night of Sunday, March 31. He was 77. He used the last months of his life to make big contributions toward causes that […]
Cobia catch
Breyden Rangle, left, and Trent Ohler, both of San Antonio, caught this 53-pound, 56.5-inch cobia on a 4-hour trip out of Dolphin Dock on Friday, March 29, aboard the Flipper with Capt. Clay Sherman. They caught the cobia in the Lydia Ann Channel.
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