Members of the Port Aransas EMS provide ‘stop-the-bleed’ instruction to students at Port Aransas High School on Wednesday, April 7. In multiple sessions, dozens of students got lessons on how to stop the bleeding when a person sustains a serious injury. The EMS has provided similar lessons to Port Aransas ISD employees and at Gulf Waters Beach Front RV Resort. […]
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PAHS student’s art to be judged at state
A work of art created by a Port Aransas High School student will be judged at a state-level competition on Saturday, April 27. The colored-pencil drawing, titled “Grades of Meat,” was created by Amy Nhan, a PAHS senior. Nhan’s work medaled at a regional event at Gregory-Portland High School on March 2. Her creation then was judged at the area […]
Recognized
Chase Carlisle, left, vice president of Carlisle Insurance of Corpus Christi, presents Lisa M. Dotter with a certificate recognizing her as a Property Casualty Alliance of Texas bus driver of the year for Port Aransas ISD. The presentation was made on Wednesday, April 10, at a meeting of the school district’s board of trustees. The Property Casualty Alliance of Texas […]
Peak performer
Sixth-grader Skylar Dulaney, second from right, holds prizes she received after being named Brundrett Middle School’s Peak Performer for the third nine-week period of the school year. Her father, Mark Dulaney, is behind her. Flanking the Dulaneys are James Garrett, BMS principal; and Sharon McKinney, superintendent of Port Aransas ISD. Not pictured is Skylar’s mother, Kerrie McLemore Dulaney. Skylar was […]
Primped for the prom
A big group of Port Aransas High School students gathered at the home of an Island Moorings resident so their parents could take their pictures while they were all dressed up, on their way to their prom, on Saturday, April 13. Subscribe Purchase Single Issue The full version of this story will be available to all readers after 2 weeks. Full versions […]
Olsen student performs on stage, in movies
Eleven-year-old Cora Dirk says she wants to be either an obstetrician, or a prosecutor, or a singer-actress when she grows up. If she chooses the singer-actress route, she already has a good head start. The H.G. Olsen Elementary School fifth-grader has an agent and a manager, and she has been in nine stage productions, two television commercials and four movies. […]
Three one-act play members receive honors at UIL area
Port Aransas High School’s one-act play didn’t get the marks it needed at area-level UIL competition to advance to regionals, but some students involved in the production did take home some honors. Hazel Hearn was named to the all-star cast, and Kynzi Jackson got honorable-mention all-star cast at the area competition, held on Saturday, April 13, at Three Rivers High […]
Students’ letters are blasts from their pasts
Every year, Brundrett Middle School teacher Michelle Parker has her sixth-graders write letters to their future selves. She asks them to record their thoughts about who they are, elaborating on their outlooks on life and opinions on a variety of issues. The idea is to create a document that will have value to them years later. Parker doesn’t read the […]
Mock crisis
Port Aransas High School students Grant Shoemaker, left, and Dylan Abernathy take part in a National High Schools Model United Nations (NHSMUN) function in New York City during Spring Break. Shoemaker and Abernathy were part of a group of PAHS students participating in a Model UN conference from March 13 to 16. Simulating the actual United Nations organization, the NHSMUN […]
Grill makers
Port Aransas High School students stand with a big barbecue grill that they recently made in the school’s Marlin Innovation Lab. From left are Ryan Tallent, Lane Vana, William Carlough, Austin Bepko, Ryder Maraquin and Gunner Belcher. The Tallent family of Port Aransas provided funding and donated materials for construction of the grill, said Ryan’s father, Jeff Tallent. He said […]
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