The primary election date is a “moving target” given all the litigation related to redistricting. There are no less than three Federal Courts involved! For more information, go to GalvestonVotes.org.

(Feb-13-2012) I look at your web site each day and really like the new format. Our family has gone to Bolivar each summer for over 60 years. It’s nice to be able to keep up with events there.
Roger
Dallas (ex Beaumont)

Letter to Honorable Patrick Doyle, Commissioner, Precinct 1.

(Feb-11-2012) Commissioner Doyle: The MAIN cause of Thursday’s horrible accident that killed the 3 year old boy was that the County’s Dunes are too close to the water. FEMA and the County got most of the front row lots after ‘Ike’, the put the dunes back where they were before the hurricane when beach was lost. Now, with high tides and southeast winds the Gulf is at the bottom of the dunes, which is a normal condition. All the dunes need to be moved BACK 75′ so the road where the family was walking isn’t next to the dunes. After ‘Ike’ the County put the blue trash cans in the middle(or closer to the beach) of the washed out beach, then proceeded to build the dunes 50′ from the water at low tide! Please move the dunes back so we continue to have a useable, not dangerous, beach. Thank You and feel free to contact me on this matter.
Don Harbuck

(Feb 11-2012) My folks and I are having coffee at their place in rural Florida, looking at the neighbor’s cattle in the next field. With a wistful sigh I exhale that by this time next week we’ll be spying both cattle and coast over our morning coffee–and oil platforms and barges if we feel like it, too. I am full aware how lucky we are on Bolivar. My Yankee parents chose country fields over sand beaches, knowing it couldn’t be both. But I had the good sense to marry a Texan whose family has long, deep ties to East Texas, and the peninsula in particular.

“I wonder what’s going on at Crystal Beach,” says my dad. “Didn’t you say we’d be arriving for Mardi Gras? Get on the computer and let’s take a look.”

Now why hadn’t I thought of that? Held hostage at the office, I’ve often clicked on a Crystal Beach webcam to check out the waves.

We take a long look at the webcams and Crystal Beach Local News, clicking the links to see what’s going on and getting all excited about the Bolivar Mardi Gras parade festivities. “Never far from Crystal Beach,” he says, looking at my faraway stare. I smile. “Not close enough yet, Dad, but soon.” (Rene Gedaly)

(Feb-10-2012) The horrible accident (child killed by rolling log) near Monkhouse Thursday afternoon is ANOTHER reason the County should move the dunes off of the BEACH and not reclaim the lots those folks were forced to sell. That family was walking down the road which has to run beside the dunes. At high tides with wind there is NO BEACH or road! Remember how funny it looked when they put out the blue trash barrels 75+ YARDS away from the eroded lots after Ike and since have been building dunes out that far? MOVE THE DUNES BACK before this happens again! (Don Harbuck)