At this year’s Sweetheart Banquet, sponsored by Port O’Connor’s First Baptist Church, Tom and Pat Ekstrom were the recipients of the Church’s Annual Citizen of the Year Award. This year’s recipients are well known in Port O’Connor to almost everyone in town. They have helped, and continue to help, so many people in this community. […]

Wow! What can we say! The Tuesday Senior lunch and Bingo group would like to thank Stacy Brobston, the Dollar General Store, and the entire community for our wonderful Valentine bags! Stacy and other Dollar General employees put out a beautifully decorated box for customers to place items in for our group. And wow! did […]

Fresh Island Eggs and Gardening Greetings from the island everyone. I hope that all of you are doing well, and had a lovely Valentines Day with your sweetheart and ate a few chocolates. Corky and I stayed on the island and celebrated birthday #58 for me the day prior to V-Day, and we took a […]

The fight for Texas Independence began at Gonzales on October 1, 1835 and continued until April 21, 1836. As the siege of the Alamo (March 6, 1836) and the massacre at Goliad (March 27, played out, fifty-eight delegates to a constitutional convention convened on March 1, 1836, at Washington-on-the-Brazos. The next day, March 2, those […]