Dr. John Nielson-Gammon, Texas State Climatologist and professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, was recently asked by Texas Water Resources Institute (TWRI) to give his insight on the current drought in our state. “Since October 1, 2010, we’ve had a little more than nine inches of rain on average for the state,” said […]

Pictured: L-R, Dennis Brown, Executive Director of the Food Bank of the Golden Crescent, Carol & Jim West, hosts of the NGA Hooters Pro Am Golf Tour and Ramona Hollan, FBGC Director of Resource Development. The West’s presented the Food Bank with a check for $15,000. Proceeds from the Pro Golf Tour total $26,185 and […]

My buddy and friend, Andy Lacy of Port O’Connor, passed away on Saturday, August 13, 2011. Andy and his wife Betty were visiting their daughter Cara Lacy Ball and her family in Portland Oregon. Andy was born Andrew Miller Lacy on October 3,1931 in San Antonio, Texas. At the start of World War II his […]

Ruby Etta Jones Stanwood of Port O’Connor passed away August 13, 2011. She was born August 12, 1941 in Lansing, North Carolina to Lillard Monroe Jones and Celia Stike Eldreth Jones. She is survived by her husband Joseph Daniel Stanwood of Cedar Park, Texas; two daughters, Maria Amanda DeLeon Kalka of Victoria and Rosa Lee […]

Kathleen Elizabeth Cook Shiller, 92, passed away on August 9, 2011. She was born on Dec. 1, 1918, in Seadrift, to Flossie and William McCindree Cook. She and her husband, James F. Shiller, owned Shiller Music Company in Lewisville for many years. Her husband preceded her in death in 1994, and in 2004 she moved […]