Rain or shine, calm or windy, nothing so far has stopped the Freeport to Port O’Connor Toy Run in its mission to bring boat loads of toys for Port O’Connor’s Adopt-An-Angel program any many more area children. This will be the eighteenth year for the Toy Run. Participants leave from Surfside Beach at 9:00 a.m. […]

It is time once again for the Adopt a Christmas Angel program in Port O’Connor, to provide Christmas gifts for our less fortunate children. This is how the program works: From now until December 10, you can pick up paperwork at POC Hardware. This consists of a numbered envelope containing the “vital statistics” for your […]

November 7th, The Fishing Center: This photo from Facebook shows some of the Veterans who participated in the Purple Heart Challenge. By the looks of their catches, we would guess they won the Challenge. A large group of Veterans, all Purple Heart recipients, were brought to Port O’Connor by the Warrior’s Weekend organization for a […]

There were lots of costumed characters at the bay front in Seadrift, Saturday, October 31st. Seadrift’s Chamber sponsored the event which started with a parade and ended with lots of satisfied kids with candy generously given by people from their car trunks! Hats off to all that made this event possible and put a smile […]

Thanks and good wishes go out to Virgil Redding, Foreman at Calhoun County Precinct 1 and Heavy Equipment Operator Paul Leal on their years of service and recent retirement. Virgil has worked for Calhoun County Precinct 1 for 33 years, and Paul for 20 years.