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 […]

July 19: Bao T. Tran; Roxanne Ochoa; Rose Smith  July 20: Jacob Lucey  July 21: Cavu Mangum; Nicole Reed; Janie Goldman; Chuck Ramirez  July 22: Patrick Overton; Jayson Amason  July 23: L’Roy Bell Jr.  July 24: Jose Chavez; John Spears; Lyla Kallus  July 25: Lucas Taylor; Chase Amason; Chelsea Whitehead; Linda Marie Carrera; Pastor Carrera  […]

Gold Star Leadership Award On June 27th, the Commissioners’ Court recognized the Treasurer’s Department, the Auditor’s Department, and the IT Department for their hard work and dedication and for receiving the 2013 Gold Leadership Circle Award from the Texas State Comptroller for Financial Transparency in Government. This is the fourth year that this award was […]

The 5th annual Flip Flop Festival will be held this year on August 31st at the Port Lavaca Bayfront Peninsula. Free gates open at 10:00 a.m. You are invited to come join in a day of food, IBCA sanctioned BBQ Cook-off, arts and crafts vendors, horseshoes and washers, beach volleyball, live music, contests and more […]

Environmental activist and Dobie-Paisano-winning author Diane Wilson and National Book Award-winning novelist Larry Heinemann will be featured at the Alamo Bay Writers’ Workshop, July 19-21 in Austin, Texas. The workshop—which also includes Dobie-winning novelist Lowell Mick White and National Endowment for the Arts Fellow poet Lee Meitzen Grue—will focus on the generation of new material […]