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. […]

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 […]

A Honor Roll First Grade:  Yarexzia Anzaldua, Janesa Banda, Dakoda Fowler, Brooke Franklin, Kole Goode, Brenleigh Green, Andrea Jaramillo Vazquez, Adalyn Lubyinesky, Davian Martinez, Lucas Resendez-Montalvo, Brady Treumer and Makenzie Whiddon. Second Grade:  Jennifer Barcenas, Paige Davenport, John Glover, Ryan Gohlke, Madilyn Grant, Emily Kremling, Symone Smith, Memphis Speer and Alie Villarreal. Third Grade:  Alex […]