The Memorial Day Kids Fishing Tournament included 45 entrants this year. Kids were allowed to fish anywhere in POC, except in a boat! All sorts of fish were caught, including pin perch, hard heads, trout and more! Trophies were given in each age group for Most Fish, Biggest Fish and Smallest Fish. Winners for age […]

Summer Island Families Enjoying Beach Time Greetings from the island everyone! I hope that all of you are doing well and surviving this brutal and oppressive pre-summer heat we have been experiencing lately. Oh my goodness, other than between 6-10 am and 6-9 pm, it’s pretty much impossible for my manly sized physique to be […]

Team members from Braskem took a day away from their usual duties at the Seadrift Operations site to cleanup a popular Calhoun County fishing spot. The Coloma Creek Bridge on highway 1289 is so popular that unless the weather is blowing, folks can be found there all times of the day and night. Why this […]

It is late Spring, and the Colonial Waterbird nesting season is in full swing. And not far from Port O’Connor, nearby Chester Island is covered in birds, nests, eggs and chicks. Much of the year, this island is mostly uninhabited except for a healthy population of Eastern Diamondback rattlesnakes. But from February to September, it […]

Virgil Redding, a lifelong Port O’Connor resident, and his wife Wanda, who’s been here since 1969, have pulled up stakes and moved way off to East Texas to be near their son Jeremiah and his family. Virgil and Wanda have been an important part of our community and will surely be missed. Virgil was a […]