Local events in town

Aransas Pass high school pushes safety after bomb threat Aransas Pass schools plan to bring in more officers and make other security changes after a series of threats to the high school and an elementary school in the district. The high school was evacuated on Feb. 23 after a bomb threat was discovered written on a wall. That followed two other threats at Charlie Marshall Elementary School in recent days. Joey Fuentes, whose daughter attends school in Aransas Pass, frantically parked and ran to his daughter, who was waiting outside the school, to give her a hug after hearing about…

Photos by Cayce Berryman Concrete Street is no stranger to crowds who come to listen to a band play late into the night, but once a year, the Old Market Pavilion hosts a large crowd that comes to celebrate the Del Mar College Scholarship Foundation. And crawfish—lots of crawfish. April 7 was the eighth annual Bernie’s Famous Crawfish Boil, which helps raise funds for student scholarships through live and silent auctions, open scholarship donations and more. The event served more than 250 pounds of bright red crawfish and more than 125 pounds of shrimp, as well as the fixings including…