This is the story of survival and adventure for one brown pelican. In February, 2018, Gulf Coast Wildlife Rescue (GCWR), in Angleton, TX received a brown pelican that had ingested oil and had frostbitten feet.  Poor thing.  But GCWR does incredible work to rehabilitate injured animals, and they went to work doing their magic on […]

POC Dollar General Has A Request As you know, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. daily is senior shopping hour. Since we have been out of the essential items for days, I have an idea. Please share! In order to continue to help our most precious, fragile young at heart, we would like to make […]

Port O’Connor, on State Highway 185 and Matagorda Bay in southern Calhoun County, was laid out in 1909 by the Calhoun Cattle Company on the 70,000-acre Alligator Head Ranch formerly owned by Thomas M. O’Connor. By 1911 the International-Great Northern Railroad had reached the community, which was named for O’Connor. By 1914 the town had […]

This winter as many as six adult whooping cranes visited Powderhorn WMA. The US Fish and Wildlife Service was able to place a GPS transmitter on one of the cranes. Once released, the crane moved to Matagorda Island for a few weeks and then came back to Powderhorn. The crane remained here for several weeks […]