Calhoun County, TX

POINT COMFORT — Calhoun port officials on Wednesday approved the issuance of $120 million in bonds to Max Midstream Texas to help refinance the construction of dock and wharf facilities as part of a $1 billion project intended to transform the port into a major oil export center. The port...

Just like the song says, "It's fun to stay at the YMCA." If you are looking for summer camp opportunities in the Crossroads, look no further than our local YMCA. Both the YMCA of the Golden Crescent and the Calhoun County YMCA are open for summer camp registration. Click here to register.

The world’s toughest canoe race returns to Calhoun County this weekend at Bill Sanders Memorial Park in Seadrift. A total of 148 paddlers signed up for this year’s Texas Water Safari’s 260-mile race that starts in San Marcos at Spring Lake Saturday, June 12, and ends in Seadrift. There is...

Lloyd Earl “Bucky” Chatham, 78, of Seadrift, passed away May 31, 2021. He was born April 8, 1943 in El Paso to Charles P. Chatham and Mary M. Chatham. Bucky had many passions in life, hunting, fishing, traveling, diving, rowing many years in the Texas Water Safari, volunteering at the Calhoun County Humane Society, his family and many friends he met along the way. He was blessed to have worked doing what he loved and retired as a commercial fisherman.

Calhoun County received great amounts of rain during the month of May and in the first week of June, but it is not unusual during this time of year, according to National Weather Service in Corpus Christi senior meteorologist Weylon Collins. Collins said the significant variance in time and space...

The arrest records made available through the Port Lavaca Wave newspaper are public information. Any indication of an arrest does not mean the individual identified has been convicted of a crime. All persons arrested are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Local law enforcement made 29 arrests...

PORT LAVACA — The Calhoun Port Authority is considering issuing $ 120 million in bonds to pay for the docks and wharfs that are central to the plan to expand the Matagorda Ship Channel. Port authorities are expected to discuss the benefits of bond packages and perhaps take action at...

Caleb Lehtinen, 18, was working in the barn at his Seadrift home on Saturday when something in the sky caught his eye. “I was like ‘Woah, that is not normal,’” the recent Calhoun High School graduate said. “It had been cloudy earlier but nothing like this.”. Lehtinen snapped a photo...

Memorial Medical Center saw another positive month in April, thanks in part to a modification to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The modification allowed the hospital to file in the first quarter for reimbursement, MMC CEO Jason Anglin reported to the Calhoun County commissioners at their June 2 meeting.

Several new committees were created to assist the Calhoun Port Authority in getting its work done during a June 2 meeting. “My desire for these committees is for our board to grow and develop as our port expands. We as commissioners need to keep up with our port’s growth in knowledge and understanding by being an engaged board,” said newly-elected board chairman Luis De La Garza.

The Seadrift City Council held its monthly meeting last Thursday at City Hall. The meeting was moved to Thursday due to the observance of Memorial Day. July’s meeting will be moved to Thursday, July 8, due to the Fourth of July. One of the big news items that Seadrift Mayor...

GREEN LAKE — About 13 miles southwest of Port Lavaca, a small land mass on one of the largest natural freshwater lakes in Texas is in critical need of repair. The stretch of marshland separates Green Lake from the Guadalupe Blanco River Authority’s diversion canal. When the lake floods, water goes over the land mass and enters GBRA’s diversion canal.

A Flatonia man and a 49-year-old Port Lavaca man nearly drowned while saving an 11-year-old girl at Sunday Beach on Matagorda Island during the Memorial Day holiday. Stephen Kosler, 41, of Flatonia, his family, and friends were on the island Monday enjoying the long holiday weekend. He said the children went ahead on the gulf side of the beach and went in the water before the adults arrived.

POINT COMFORT—The Calhoun Port Authority’s newly elected board chairman appointed board members to serve on several new committees Wednesday. Luis De La Garza, who was elected to serve as board chairman in mid-May, created five new committees that he said he hopes will help the port operate less as “an island” by encouraging the board to learn from the expansions and operations at larger ports, such as the Port of Corpus Christi and the Port of Houston.

The Victoria County Public Health Department Environmental Health Division inspects places where food is served in Victoria, DeWitt, Jackson and Calhoun counties. In the inspection reports, each violation in the Priority items 1-20 is 3 demerits; Priority Foundation items 21-33 are 2 demerits; and Core items are 1 demerit. Zero is a perfect score, while 100 demerits is the worst possible score.

It was a nearly sold-out crowd at Sandcrab Stadium for the Calhoun High School class of 2021 graduation last Friday night. The parking lot was packed with families of the seniors who ended their high school journey that began in August 2017. CHS Principal Nicole Amason said the mission for...

The 2020-21 Calhoun High School athletics year was a season with memorable moments for the Sandcrabs and Sandies. The Calhoun athletic teams completed a full season of sports for the first time since the 2019-20 season. Last year baseball, softball, track and field, and powerlifting had their seasons cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2020-21 Calhoun High School athletics year was a season with memorable moments for the S…