Fannie Flagg’s WHISTLE STOP CAFE & FRIED GREEN TOMATOES. The book is written in a series of chapters, somewhat long and others extremely short, all concerning events in Whistle Top, Alabama, a very small area that several trains stop prior to continuing to Birmingham. And if you’ve never read Fannie Flagg but have bypassed her […]

Who, years ago, could have imagined that one person shooting off a bag of fireworks on the beach for the entertainment of his family and friends would grow to become the big event that the Fourth of July Fireworks Show has become? And this year, thanks to the efforts of Fireworks Chairman Donnie Haynes, the […]

Support Our POC Volunteer Fire Department! Annual BBQ Fund Raiser Saturday, July 6

Beans: 1st – Grand Slam Cookers; 2nd – Its 5 O’ Clock Somewhere; 3rd – Smokin Nuts Chili: 1st – Wired Up; 2nd – Grand Slam Cookers; 3rd – Ms. Gabby’s Cookers Gumbo: 1st – W.G.G (Randolph); 2nd – Grand Slam Cookers Chicken: 1st – Smokin’ Nuts; 2nd – Wired Up; 3rd – Its 5 […]

On May 24, 2013, Warden Tim Wilkinson headed out with two boats and fourteen volunteers to count the nesting birds on Chester Island (previously known as Sundown Island). Chester Island is one of thirty-three coastal sanctuaries supported by Texas Audubon. These island sanctuaries are home to twenty-plus species of waterbirds that nest along the coast. […]