Aransas Pass Progress

Harvey closes CRMC, plans to reopen begin

Care Regional Medical Center administrators evacuated patients before Hurricane Harvey made landfall, and fully expected to be back in business the following Monday. Unfortunately, the damage from the hurricane was so severe, the facility is being...

Prosperity takes care of customers from RV

Prosperity Bank’s doors may not have opened to the lobby, but they are open in a manner of speaking. Vice president/lobby manager Kathy Smith, center, and teller Brenda Garcia opened the doors to the Prosperity Bank “RV” to accept customers’...

WOODS, WATERS and WILDLIFE

An Internet image this week reminded me that with the south dove zone season opening Friday, Sept. 22, the entire state will be open. The image read: “After the flood, God sent Noah a message, using a dove. In Texas, He used a hummingbird. He knew a...

Watertower destroyed

City staff, outside agencies work to restore services

Aransas Pass city staff members, agencies from through the country, and volunteer organizations banded together last week working to restore city services, clean up the debris and destructions, and provide necessary items for residents such as water...

Hurricane can’t stop coffee ‘Addiction’

When Tammie Brown opened the Addiction the day before Christmas last year, she began her business under the city’s new Planning and Zoning rules and was not happy about all the new requirements, restrictions, etc. Now that her building withstood...

News Stories

Prominent citizen Welborn passes away

Aransas Pass native Michael E. Welborn, best known for the judicial positions he held in San Patricio County, passed away last week after a battle with cancer.

By Norma L. Martinez

City Council meeting overview presented

The Aransas Pass City Council has picked up where it left off before Hurricane Harvey and conducting regular meetings to take action on routine business. The council met Monday, Sept.

By Norma L. Martinez

Progress/Index staff seeks residents help for hurricane book

Hurricane Harvey came tearing through the Coastal Bend area, and all residents probably have a story to tell, whether it’s about evacuating, riding out the storm, or when they returned.