Thursday May 16th 2024

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• RECENT HEADLINES

  • Swinging Success
  • The Bolivar Beach Report, sweet April Edition
  • Eagles and Salty Mermaid join together
  • Birds of a Feather
  • Community Excellence Shines at the Chamber Awards Banquet

• DAILY PICTURE, crystalbeach.com

  
  
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• Whimsy

  Why Does ‘Stat’ Mean “Immediately”?
  It was originally a medical thing—here’s why.
  

• U.S. State Flags Quiz

  
  How well do you know the flags of other states?

• GO’s Sand Bucket, by Georgia Osten

  • Dodging the Hailstorm

    By Georgia Osten The 39th Texas Crab Festival blew into town on Friday afternoon under cloudy skies. We kept watching the weather all weekend, praying we wouldn’t have a gully washer like last year. No way were we going to let Roger Creager go home without entertaining us again this year! What a super show! I guess I’d never heard of him or heard his

• J. Lee Austin, The Good Help Network

  • Feisty Festival of The Crab Comes Roaring Back

    Survives Near Drowning, Returns to Hundreds of Adoring Fans By J. Lee Austin To say the 39th Texas Crab Festival was a success would be a good example of understatement writ large. In sharp contrast to last year’s biblically flooded event, this weekend’s merry affair was inundated with good weather

• Morning Glories, by Brenda Cannon Henley

  • Three trees on a hillside

    By Brenda Cannon Henley People all over the world celebrate Christmas in different ways. Legends, family stories, and sheer traditions make us aware of just how different, and yet alike, we are. One of the things I like to do is to find a new or different story each year to share with my grands, great grands, and our church family about this holiday I love. This is one

• Miss Bee’s Bolivar Buzz, by Shannon Williams

  • Miss Bee’s Bolivar Buzz

    By Shannon Williams I had a run of fun things I had planned get cancelled in the past few months, so I was going to write about how disappointing it had all been. I went on my phone to get some pictures of the tickets for one of the events and found some really fun pictures of some fun times I had in the past two months, so I decided I would write

• Boating Safety, by Bob Currie

  • Recreational Boating Safety – National Safe Boating Week

    By Bob Currie, Recreational Boating Safety Specialist U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Station Galveston Flotilla Safe Boating Week is from May 18-24, 2024. The purpose of the Safe Boating Campaign is to promote boater education and safe operation so that all boaters get home safely. Getting home safely from a recreational boating outing is simply a matter of following some

• Fishing Reports

  
  click here for TPWD Saltwater Fishing Report
  click here for Captain Brandon's Fishing Report
  click here for Captain Brawner's Fishing Report

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