It is that time again, when summer is around the corner and Memorial Day is coming up.  Since 2010, the Port O’Connor Chamber of Commerce has been sponsoring the Annual Kite Flying Contest at Kingfisher Beach.  With the wind, in all its glory, it should be a great day to come out to the beach […]

German artist, Dieter Erhard, designed from a plain 64 foot steel hull, a new unfinished, gulf shrimp boat, an art studio and international art production and exhibit space . Bozo, a Vietnamese shrimper, started the boat in the 1980s and Buddy Cross a professional welder, bought it from him before Dieter Erhard bought it from […]

Membership Deadline Nears If you have joined the Port O’Connor Chamber of Commerce for 2019, we sincerely appreciate your membership. The applications went out on March 1st. If you want to remain on our website, Facebook page and your business information given to the public, your renewal or membership must be received by June 1st. […]

If you aren’t already a member, you may wonder what the Service Club is all about, so in this month’s spotlight article we’re taking a look at some of their past and ongoing projects. Of course, nearly all Club projects depend on the efforts of many dedicated community members as well, but it was the […]

Memorial Day In the spring of 1865, the American Civil War came to an end and the nation began a long healing process that some today has never fully ended. Because that conflict was at the time the bloodiest and deadliest in American history, large cemeteries were built across the country to facilitate the burying […]