Greetings from the island everyone. Hope all of you have thawed out from last week’s ice-over, and the short cold spell this week.  It has not been much of a mild winter as the so-called experts predicted.  Who actually makes those predictions anyway, that furry groundhog rodent?   Sometimes I think so. The chickens fared just […]

This has been a very exciting week for our Church! It really takes a lot of people to produce a Port O’Connor affair such as the annual “Sweetheart Banquet”. For sixteen uninterrupted years, the Church has sponsored this Banquet. The first “Sweetheart Banquet”  was in 1995 and held in the Church Fellowship Hall. It was […]

Students receiving the Kiwanis Bring Up Grades (BUG) awards at Port O’Connor Elementary School for the 3rd six weeks are:  1st grade – Jordan Blevins, Joseph Diaz, Harley Albrecht, Maddie Hawes, Jessie Lashley & John Rosenboom. 2nd grade – Collin Branch, Ronnie Carriles, McKaelyn Carriles, Kali Gregory, Logan Hobbs, Ally Luna, Faith Peeler & Chloe […]

Have you  heard about the adoptive parents who are in trouble with the Russian government for making their son drink hot sauce when he spoke a bad word? Perhaps hot sauce is too harsh, but in when I was young, it was soap. I can still remember the foamy mouth that seemed to leave a […]

As the happy couple sat across from me, all I could do was smile in admiration. “I had a brand new car,” Kenneth Wooldridge chuckled when I asked how he and his wife, Billie Ruth met.  Billie Ruth explained,  “I worked at the local drug store, Carpenters’s, and he came in one day. That was […]