Jacob Ryland Stryker, born April 2, 2015 to Jason and Candice Stryker and big sister Clara of Port O’Connor, TX. Jacob was born at Memorial Medical Center and weighed 8 lbs 9.9 oz and was 21 inches long. His grandparents are Sonny Cook (Port O’Connor) and Carrie Cook (Ingleside), Robert and Pam Stryker (Schroeder), great […]

Congratulations to Janie Goldman who was inducted into the Daughters of the Republic of Texas on May 2 by virtue of her ancestor Daniel Webster Lee, a citizen of the Republic. Janie, the daughter of Johnny and Joyce Rhyne of Port O’Connor, is a Forensic Science and Food Science Teacher at Clear Brook High School […]

60th Reunion of the Last Graduating Class  (1955) of Port Lavaca High School! What a great 60th reumion at the lovely home of Waymon and Ann Boyd overlooking Lavaca Bay!  Special guest was Ann Ford Smith, our freshman PE teacher.  Our delicious meal was catered by Liz and Jim Rudellat.  Even had guitar and violin […]

60 tons of trash removed from Texas beaches Saturday Nearly 5,000 hard-core Adopt-A-Beach volunteers braved thunderstorms and wind Saturday April 18 to haul more than 60 tons of trash off Texas beaches for the 29th annual Texas General Land Office Adopt-A-Beach Spring Cleanup. “Adopt-A-Beach volunteers are a dedicated group,” Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush […]

Finally, a break from the rain and here come the mosquitoes. We all know they are big as teal, down here.  Plus, You need a shotgun to exterminate them. When they raise their wings and start attacking, I always threaten to install a mosquito mister, then I realize I would be misting everybody’s yard but […]