In a chance meeting at the post office, I had a very nice chat with Dan Walker, TPWD Project Leader for the Coastal Bend Wetlands Ecosystem Project (Powderhorn WMA, Guadalupe Delta WMA, Matagorda Island WMA, Welder Flats WMA, Redhead Pond WMA). Dan was excited to share that the Wildlife Management Area portion of the ranch […]

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month, and Port O’Conner finds itself more aware than ever this year. 16-year-old local girl Carly Rosenboom, who had already beaten Cancer once as a young child, was diagnosed with a new aggressive sarcoma in her chest on the final day of the school year in May 2018. She and […]

End of Summer Brings Lots of Rain Greetings from the island everyone. I hope that all of you are doing well, and are looking forward to the first day of Fall/Autumn, which begins tomorrow, Sept. 22. I have always referred to this season of the year as Fall myself, and felt that Autumn was more […]

The City of Seadrift has compiled a list of 41 properties in the city limits that have been deemed “uninhabitable”. Two of these have recently been issued Repair Permits and one is under contract to be sold. A few of these dwellings are still being lived in. A few are a result of hurricane damage, […]