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PALACIOS It’s an overcast windy day as Ellis Chapman walks down a long pier facing Tres Palacios Bay. With his waders in hand, he wears a hat that says, “The Oyster Farm Company.”
This is a therapeutic escape for Chapman who makes the walk nearly five days a week, Monday through Friday. The pier looks out onto the small bay, which is an extension to the much larger Matagorda Bay located in the northern Texas Coastal Bend.
At the end of his walk, about 100 feet in both directions, are two growing systems used for oysters farming, or oyster aquaculture. From this vantage point, the systems appear to be nothing special and could easily be mistaken for trash or abandoned fishing material. However, a closer look into the shallow waters reveals cages of nearly perfect, fully grown Coastal Bend oysters.
Here s what s going to happen:
The US 181 northbound mainlanes and the FM 3239/Broadway Boulevard intersection and turnarounds under U.S. 181 will be closed from 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday to 5 a.m. the following day for completion of bridge construction work.
U.S. 181 northbound mainlane motorists will exit at FM 3239/Broadway and proceed on the frontage road through the FM 3239/Broadway intersection before returning to the U.S. 181 northbound mainlanes.
Westbound motorists on Broadway wishing to cross under U.S. 181 at the intersection will detour northbound to Sunset Road in Gregory.
Eastbound motorists on FM 3239 wishing to cross under U.S. 181 at the intersection will detour southbound to Wildcat Drive in Portland.
Rolling Stone The Corpus Christi Water Wars
A coalition of residents is trying to halt the region’s rapid industrial sprawl. The fight is now centered on the water supply for a massive new Exxon SABIC plastics plant in the drought-prone Texas city
By Rahim Fortune for Rolling Stone
A skyline of smokestacks appears on the horizon before the rest of Corpus Christi does. Approaching Texas’ “Sparkling City by the Sea” on I-37, a palm-tree-lined highway running from San Antonio to the Gulf Coast, it’s tough to tell where the billowing exhaust from oil refineries ends and the rain clouds begin. Massive storage domes, tangles of pipes, and burning flares reach into the sky, and a potpourri of gasoline, sulfur, and unidentified chemical-burning smells fill the air.
Coast Guard finds empty boat drifting in Nueces Bay
Coast Guard finds empty boat drifting in Nueces Bay
and last updated 2021-05-01 23:20:55-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â The Coast Guard is searching for the owner of a boat after they found it drifting in Nueces Bay on Saturday.
The unoccupied green Jon boat was found with an ice chest and food floating about 300 feet away from where it was found.
The Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi, Coast Guard Station Port Aransas, Corpus Christi Fire Department, and Good Samaritan boats are searching for the owner of the boat.
If you have any information that may help identify the owner, you are asked to contact Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi command center at (361) 939-0450.
Rezone approved for new Good Samaritan Rescue Mission home
By: Eran Hami
and last updated 2021-04-16 20:43:40-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â The Good Samaritan Rescue Mission is on the verge of a new home following the Corpus Christi Planning and Zoning Commission s rezone approval of the previous Red Roof Inn on the intersection of Buffalo St. and Nueces Bay Blvd.
âI was holding my breath because weâve been planning this since 2011, said Carole Murphey, Executive Director of the rescue mission. Something just kept going wrong. So Wednesday evening they voted yes, that we can be rezoned and all that.â