Bird baby boom
Whoopers hatched 45 new chicksIt’s looking like a good year for whooping cranes, the endangered birds that draw flocks of birders to the Port...
Boat parade
John McKinney and Brenda Simek, both of Port Aransas, treated folks to an impromptu lighted boat parade on Friday, Dec....
VFW conducting food drive
How to help at ChristmasHelp make sure that Port Aransas families have all the items they need to enjoy a Christmas dinner in their...
EMS seeking toys
If you still haven’t made a donation to the Emergency Services Toy Roundup, there is still time to do so....
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Champions!
Marlins dominate London tournamentPort Aransas ran the table at the Charley McMath Memorial Tournament last weekend and ran its record to 9-2. That is a marked turnaround from last season, when the Marlins...
Defense lifts Marlins
Junior varsity, freshmen lose to APAransas Pass is not the behemoth it was last season when the Panthers won 30 games and advanced to a state semifinal behind All-South Texas MVP Colin Hale. Aransas Pass...
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JV Marlins get first win of the seasonThe Port Aransas junior varsity won its first game of the season on Saturday, Dec. 3, downing Corpus Christi Incarnate Word Academy 27-20 in the closer of a threegame tournament...
Lady Marlins learn from loss
A fourth-place showing at the LBJ Tournament in Johnson City wasn’t an ideal finish to a week in which Port Aransas lost three of its four games. But the Lady...
Lady Marlins fall in OT nail-biter to RHS
Visiting Port Aransas got 31 points from the senior-sophomore duo of Charlotte Ramsden and Kendall Owens but lost to Robstown in a 53-47 overtime heartbreaker on Tuesday, Nov. 29. The...
7th Ladies drop game to Seashore
Hannah Ramsden scored eight points for Brundrett Middle School but visiting Seashore Academy pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Lady Marlins (1-2) in a seventh-grade game on...
Clark leads BMS to win on the road on Monday
Jaydn Clark scored 14 points to lead Brundrett Middle School to a breezy eighth-grade win at Kenedy on Monday, Dec. 5. Jamie Barr added six points for the Lady Marlins,...
Academy stops 7th boys
Visiting Seashore Academy overcame an 11-point deficit with a 13-0 run in the fourth quarter and beat the Brundrett Middle School seventh graders 25-23 on Thursday, Dec. 1. Kyler Spaeth...
U-14 division champs
The U14 team of the Port Aransas Soccer League is top of their division and will be traveling to the state tournament in Victoria. From left, are, Brianna D’Herde, assistant...
U10 Blue Marlins
The U10 Blue Marlins team of the Port Aransas Youth Soccer League posed on a recent day. From left, back row are, Donovan Hall, Ryan Tallent, Charles Mills, Liam Edwards...
Bird baby boom
Whoopers hatched 45 new chicksIt’s looking like a good year for whooping cranes, the endangered birds that draw flocks of birders to the Port Aransas region each year. Wildlife officials in Canada, where the...
Boat parade
John McKinney and Brenda Simek, both of Port Aransas, treated folks to an impromptu lighted boat parade on Friday, Dec. 2. McKinney said that they had decorated the boat for...
VFW conducting food drive
How to help at ChristmasHelp make sure that Port Aransas families have all the items they need to enjoy a Christmas dinner in their home by donating to the annual Care and Share Christmas...
EMS seeking toys
If you still haven’t made a donation to the Emergency Services Toy Roundup, there is still time to do so. The personnel of the Port Aransas Emergency Services, using the...
Greenery galore
Gardener Paulette Rogers stands with some of the greenery at Executive Keys, recipient of the Port Aransas Garden Club’s commercial Yard of the Month Award for November. The property on Beach Access Road 1A boasts purple datura, hibiscus, plumeria, esperanza, bougainvillea, moon flower, yellow bells and many other plantings.
Holiday lights
Deadline to enter annual PAGC contest is SaturdayIf you have gotten into the Christmas spirit and have your outside decorations up, be sure and enter the annual Port Aransas Garden Club’s Christmas Lights Contest. Categories include residential (which includes homes and individual condominiums), RVs and commercial establishments. The deadline to register for the contest is Saturday, Dec....
Golf cart parade, vendors, music to benefit Toy Roundup
Folks in costumes driving Christmas-themed decorated golf carts will take to the streets in Port Aransas on Saturday, Dec. 10, for the annual Christmas Golf Cart Parade. Lineup for the parade, a benefit for the Port Aransas Emergency Services Toy Roundup, begins at 2 p.m. in front of Port A...
Ho, ho, ho!
Tree lighting, Santa, more set on ThursdayAnother Port Aransas holiday tradition is set for Thursday, Dec. 8, when the city Christmas tree will be lit along with an appearance of the jolly old elf himself. The festivities begin at 6 p.m. when David Hyde, City of Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department director, will get everything...
Neblett is reappointed, receives salary increase
Duncan Neblett Jr. has been reappointed as judge of Port Aransas Municipal Court, and the city council has decided to give him a pay raise of $20,000 per year, or 59 percent. The council made the moves in a 7-0 vote at its Nov. 16 meeting. Neblett’s annual pay will...
Boat Works to host party on Saturday
Maybe this will float your boat . The folks at the Farley Boat Works will host a Second Saturday party with food, live music and conversation on Saturday, Dec. 10. Burgers will be cooking on the grill and local musicians will be there to entertain beginning at 6 p.m. Those...
High sign
A worker hangs the new Alister Street sign at the corner of Alister and Avenue G on Friday, Dec. 2. The new sign went up as part of the Texas Department of Transportation’s project to widen State Highway 361 to four travel lanes and a center turn lane from Avenue...
Garden Club meeting to have holiday theme
Christmas giving and holiday celebration is the theme of the Port Aransas Garden Club meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 13. The doors to the Community Center, 408 N. Alister St., will open at 9:30 a.m. for socializing and the meeting will begin at 10 a.m. Those who attend are asked to...
Clean machine
Len Dodge scrubs the exterior of his Highland Ridge Open Range fifth-wheel trailer at Island RV in Port Aransas on Sunday, Nov. 20. Dodge said he’s a recently retired millright and full-time RVer from Chaffey’s Lock, Ontario, Canada. He is among many Winter Texans taking up temporary residence in Port...
New slice on pizza
Paul and Sandra Underwood, left and center, assumed ownership of Slice of Chicago in September with their son Garrett, as manager. The eatery serves authentic Chicago deep dish and thin crust pizza, salads, wings and desserts that can be washed down with beer and wine. They offer dine-in, delivery or...
Merry shopping
Christmas shoppers streamed into the Port Aransas Civic Center, Pollock Center and Trinity-by-the- Sea Episcopal Church fellowship hall on Saturday, Dec. 3.
Special ed hearing at PAISD Thursday
The Port Aransas Independent School District will host a public meeting at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, to discuss special education services available to students who live in the district but are not enrolled in the ISD. The meeting will be held in the Board Room at the ISD’s Administration...
Santa coming to town Monday
Santa, presents and pancakes are set for Port Aransas kids and their families on Monday, Dec. 12. The free children’s Christmas party and pancake supper will be held at the Civic Center, located at 700 W. Ave. A, from 5 to 7 p.m. Hot pancakes will be served and the...
Port Aransas musicians named to All-Region Band
Fourteen band students from Port Aransas qualified for the All- Region Band during tryouts held Saturday, Dec. 3, at West Oso High School in Corpus Christi. Among them are three Brundrett Middle School students who took first-chair honors: Baritone players Maxwell DeHart and Luke Merritt and clarinetist Tiffany Shelton. “...
The joy of generosity
Education notesNatalie Angier, a science journalist for the New York Times wrote that scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with a quiet joy. Isn’t it wonderful when science proves what we...
School bands set seasonal concerts
The Port Aransas High School and Brundrett Middle School bands have been hard at work tuning up for their annual Fall/Christmas concerts. “We’ve been working at it pretty hard,” said high school band director Jim Cole. “The kids have made a real good effort this year and we’re getting there....
Art show winner
Sunny Maynard, a junior at Port Aransas High School, won the first-place 11th grade award at the Charlotte Walker Middle School and High School Student Art Show on Sunday, Dec. 4. The student show will be on display at the Port Aransas Art Center throughout the month of December.
