Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Harley-Davidson Motorcycle celebrated its 120th anniversary the second week of July. The four day festival July 12-16 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin the hometown of Harley-Davidson saw hundreds of thousands of people come there from around the world to join the celebration that featured live music performances, fun activities, and entertainment for motorcycle enthusiasts of all ages. The Harley Owners Group or HOG Chapter 5298 known as Teddy Morse Cowboy Harley from the Golden...
Two Bridge City Cardinal baseball players signed scholarships on Monday, July 10, to play at the college level. JS Bearden III and Brice Swanton signed their scholarships in the competition gymnasium at Bridge City High School. Bearden played outfield and was a middle relief pitcher for the Cardinals. JS will still be wearing Cardinal red next season when he joins the Lamar University baseball team. Swanton was the shortstop for the Cardinals his four years on the varsity...
This has been a great year for softball at Orangefield with the Lady Bobcats winning the district championship and advancing in the state playoffs their furthest in the school's history. Another accolade was achieved this month with assistant softball coach Sarah Nash being selected the Assistant Coach of the Year in Class 3A for Region 5. The selection as the assistant coach of the year surprised Coach Nash. "I was honestly so shocked. My sister actually nominated me. It...
A familiar hand will be guiding the Bridge City softball program in the coming school year. Kylie Bradley has been chosen as the new head coach for the Lady Cardinals after serving as an assistant coach last season. The head softball coach at Bridge City is a goal Bradley has had on her mind. "It may be a little sooner than I thought might come, but that's been the goal to be in Bridge City and to help build a program whether I was assisting or I was the head coach, Bradley...
For more than four decades the West Orange-Stark Mustangs have thrilled their fans with winning football teams. Now one of their longtime coaches is writing a history of the winningest high school football program in the state of Texas. Cornel Thompson was the linebacker coach in the first few seasons of West Orange-Stark (WOS), was promoted to defensive coordinator where he served for almost three decades, and concluded his coaching career as the head coach of the Mustangs....
A fire outside the new press box under construction at Dan R. Hooks Stadium adjacent to West Orange-Stark High School was extinguished Thursday, June 29, with no injuries reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation. A citizen driving past the stadium noticed the fire about four o'clock Thursday afternoon and called in the emergency. The West Orange Volunteer Fire Department responded to the stadium shortly after the fire was reported. According to Tyler Roberts...
An historic location in the City of Orange will be the site on the third Saturday in July of a special confrontation featuring one of the oldest games played. The century old First Presbyterian Church in Orange will host a chess tournament on July 15 between the Beaumont Chess Club and the Casa De Ajedrez (Spanish for House of Chess) club from Sulphur, Louisiana. The game of chess dates back over fourteen hundred years. Texts referring to the origins of chess date from the beg...
West Orange-Stark was one of four local high schools that advanced to the championship rounds of the state University Interscholastic League 7-on-7 competition. West Orange Stark went 4-2 in its matches played on Thursday and Friday, June 22-23 at College Station. Joining West Orange-Stark in College Station were three of the Mustangs' district opponents in football. Silsbee, Jasper, and Hamshire-Fannett also advanced from the regional bracket played in early June. The pool...
The Orange Amateur Radio Club conducted another success field day on Saturday and Sunday, June 24-25, at the American Red Cross building in Orange. The local amateur radio operators made numerous contacts with other members of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) from around the nation. The ARRL Field Day is conducted annually the fourth weekend in June. Thousands of radio amateurs gather with their clubs or groups in the United States and Canada to make radio contacts with...
More accolades were bestowed on two members of this season's outstanding Orangefield Lady Bobcats softball team. Harleigh Rawls and Charlee Sanches were named to the Class 3A All-State team. Rawls was a standout in her senior year at Orangefield. Because of an injury to her throwing arm incurred during the basketball season Harleigh began the softball season as a utility infielder to relieve the stress on that arm. The injury did not prevent Rawls from swinging a really...
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) Field Day will begin Saturday, June 24, in Orange. The ARRL Field Day is held annually on the fourth weekend of June when thousands of radio amateurs gather worldwide to operate their radios from remote locations. The ARRL is the national association for Amateur Radio in the United States representing over 170,000 FCC-licensed Amateur radio operators. The Orange Amateur Radio Club is such a club that will be operating radios on June 24...
There is a new face in Bridge City that is working to improve the football fortunes for the Cardinals. Coach Chris Towery is the new offensive coordinator and conditioning coach for Bridge City High School. Towery is a native of Pineville, Louisiana, and played football at the University of Southwestern Louisiana which is now known as University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was a reserve quarterback for the Ragin' Cajuns. Upon graduation from college Towery coached at...
West Orange-Stark graduate Tyrone Wilson will play baseball at Wiley College when he starts attending school there this coming fall. Wilson has received a scholarship to Wiley College which he signed on Wednesday, June 7, in the Cornell Thompson Strength and Conditioning Center at West Orange-Stark High School. Wilson played shortstop for the Mustangs during his years at West Orange-Stark and was Honorable Mention All-District this past season. He also pitched and was a...
Providing food and other useful household items like soap and shampoo to needy families who cannot afford to purchase them has led several churches in Orange County to create special containers accessible to the public in which to store these items for those people who need them. The containers holding the useful items including non-perishable food have been given the name Blessing Boxes. Possibly the first local church to create a Blessing Box in the City of Orange is Mount C...
The annual Cops N Kids was held Friday, June 9, at Claiborne West Park. The event was another successful effort organized by the Orange County Sheriff's Office to introduce young people to local first responders to enhance trust and better relationships between law enforcement and the public. Personnel from the Sheriff's Office in addition to the county constables, officers from police departments in the county, troopers with the Texas Department of Public Safety, first...
First Presbyterian Church in Orange has erected a Blessing Box to help provide assistance for needy residents in the city. The box is on the church's property located at the corner of Green Avenue and Ninth Street in downtown Orange. The idea of a Blessing Box came to fruition through the efforts of the recently created Outreach Committee at First Presbyterian Church. The committee got strong support from its Pastor Bobby Daniel to create the box, then it accepted the...
The 27th Annual Orange County Cops N Kids Picnic will be held Friday, June 9, at Claiborne West Park. The purpose is to allow young people a time to interact in a friendly and fun atmosphere with law officers and other first responders to develop good relationships between them. Cops N Kids is a function where first responders come together to bridge the gap between children and law enforcement according to Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Guzman. “We want to let the...
The Orangefield golf team received further recognition of its outstanding achievements at the end of this school year during the 13th Annual Babe Zaharias Foundation's Award Ceremony held in Beaumont on May 31. Brothers Xander and Lincoln Parks tied for Boys Golfers of the Year and Todd Trawhon was named the Boys Golf Coach of the Year. Xander Parks won the Class 3A state golf tournament held in Austin on May 22-23. Younger brother Lincoln Parks helped the Orangefield golf...
A magnificent new facility at the West Orange-Stark High School is close to completion but was the site of an important activity on Friday, May 26. The West Orange-Cove Event Center hosted its first event with the graduation ceremony for the senior class of 2023 at West Orange-Stark. The project to build the new West Orange-Cove Event Center has been about three years in the making. Funding for the center is from the 2018 school bond approved by voters at that time. The COVID...
Less than three months before the start of the high school football season the Bridge City Cardinals had their athletic director and head football coach resign. Cody McGuire’s resignation was accepted by Bridge City School Superintendent Dr. Mike Kelly the last week of May. Filling the vacancy of head football coach will be longtime Bridge City High School coach and the head baseball coach Chad Landry on an interim basis. Dr. Kelly will serve as the interim athletic d...
A year that started with great expectations, was plagued by an injury along the way, and ended with exaltation for Xander Parks the last week and a half of May. The Orangefield senior won the Class 3A individual state championship for golf during the two-day tournament held May 22-23 in Austin. The winning of the gold medal by Parks a senior at Orangefield helped his five-member team also do quite well. The Bobcats captured fourth place among the twelve teams competing in...
The second annual "500 For Life" motorcycle rally was held Saturday, May 20, for local motorcycle enthusiasts. Over fifty motorcyclists rode together from Beaumont to Orange to promote safety and to make drivers of other vehicles more aware of motorcycles on the road. The rally started at the Cowboy Harley Davidson dealership on Interstate 10 in Beaumont escorted by motorcycle riding police officers. All together 55 motorcycles arrived at the Columbanus Motor Sports center in...
Another successful baseball season came to an end for the Orangefield Bobcats on Saturday, May 20. The Bobcats lost their second game to the Central Heights Blue Devils and were eliminated from the Class 3A state baseball playoffs. Orangefield won the district championship going undefeated in fourteen games. The Bobcats advanced to the third round of the post season with impressive series sweeps over Pollok Central and Wallis Brazos in the bi-district and area rounds of the...
The Orangefield School Trustees introduced the new high school boys basketball coach during their meeting on Monday, May 22, at the high school. Bryan Whitmire was approved to take the position as the boys basketball coach by the school board earlier in May. Whitmire comes to Orangefield from The Woodlands High School in Class 6A. He was an assistant coach on the varsity last season and the head coach of the freshman team which won the district championship with a 25-2...
The Orangefield Lady Bobcats had their outstanding season come to an end Friday, May 19, in Navasota. The Lady Bobcats lost in a one game playoff with the Class 3A top ranked Grandview Lady Zebras to be eliminated from the state UIL playoffs after reaching the fourth round of the post season for the first time in the school's softball history. Orangefield played even with Grandview for four innings during a scoreless tie. The Lady Zebras got two late homeruns in the fifth and...
