The 76th annual Shrimporee will return to Aransas Pass Friday through Sunday, featuring live music, a carnival, vendors, a parade and a plethora of shrimp. The event will be held from 6 p.m. to midnight Friday, noon to midnight Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at 200 E. Johnson Ave. in Aransas Pass. Admission […]
An Aransas County jailer is being charged with murder in a shooting that was initially deemed accidental. The emblem of the Aransas County Sheriff Department. Police, fire and EMS arrived at a residence on April 19 at 536 West Yoakum St. in San Patricio County to find Phillip Esslinger, 18, with a gunshot wound to […]
PORT ARANSAS − While young adults, teenagers, grandparents and families traveled from San Antonio, California, Virginia and Guam — to name a few out-of-towers — to celebrate spring break at Port Aransas Beach, Senior Officer Jonathan Haber spent his day speaking with locals and visitors. “My father always taught me to talk to people,” Haber […]
In the 1890s, a trip to the seaside was a grand occasion, and towns around the Coastal Bend built showcase hotels to attract the vacationers. Aransas Hotel in Rockport Col. John H. Traylor built the Aransas Hotel on the Rockport waterfront in 1889. Traylor was president of the Aransas Land Company, a group of Dallas […]