Warrior’s Weekend is going to have approximately 25 Purple Heart recipients down to POC for a fishing tournament on the 7th of November. Their weekend will start out by attending the Aaron Watson concert at Schroeder Hall on Friday night the 6th and culminate with their attendance at the Warrior’s Weekend Golden Crescent Honor Pavilion […]

On August 29th we celebrated the life of Greg Odom. A previous resident and long-time local supporter; friend of all things Port O’Connor. He was well loved by all with a fun and outgoing personality. He freely gave whenever there was need and was the first to support fundraisers and functions that benefited local kids. […]

Port O’Connor always turns out to honor our wounded warriors, as we trust you will on November 7th. (See Warrior’s Weekend article at left.) And this November we will also have a chance to show our appreciation and support for law enforcement. In this disturbing time of dishonoring and de-funding the police, John Collins, a […]

A few weeks ago, I was invited to tour the new facilities of the Calhoun County Humane Society. My tour guide was Juaniece Madden, who recently passed on to her reward. Juaniece devoted her time and resources to the Society for many years. Every day, she arrived at 6:00 a.m. to tend to the animals, […]

Dealing With a Very Stormy Season Greetings from the island to everyone. I hope that all of you are doing well and enjoying these beautiful weather days we have been having lately. Well,the hurricanes and tropical storms simply will not leave us alone his year! First there was Hurricane Hannah that went in south of […]