Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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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...
The Orangefield Bobcats continued to roll in the post season and moved into the third round of the Class 3A state baseball playoffs. The Bobcats swept Wallis Brazos in two games outscoring the Cougars 27-0 in the series. The series was played at Crosby a neutral site for the two teams. The first game was Thursday, May 11, which Orangefield won 10-0 giving Coach Tim Erickson his 200th career win. Pitcher Jason Bodin was masterful in the game. Bodin got credit for a complete...
Orangefield High School held its Athletic Banquet on Monday, May 15. Harleigh Rawls was the Girl Athlete of the Year and Cameron Dischler was the Boy Athlete of the Year. The following student athletes were also honored during the ceremony. Boys Cross Country Bobcat Heart Award Leyton Loft Newcomer of the Year Carson Worthy Most Valuable Player Tanner Sullivan Girls Cross Country Bobcat Heart Award Kadee English Newcomer of the Year Aubree Beck Most Valuable Player Kendall...
May is National Motorcycle Awareness Month. Local motorcyclists from Orange and Jefferson Counties will be staging a rally this month to help drive home how important motorcycle safety is and to help make motorists more aware of motorcycles on the roadways. The second annual '500 For Life' event will be held on Saturday, May 20. The motorcycle rally will start at the Cowboy Harley Davidson dealership in Beaumont and conclude at the Columbanus Motor Sports center in Orange. Las...
Pitching was the name of the game during the three game series in the area round of the state Class 4A baseball playoffs between the Bridge City Cardinals and the Lufkin Hudson Hornets. All three games were shutouts with the Hornets winning games one and three to take the playoff two games to one over the Cardinals with the complete series held in Jasper. The deciding game was played on Saturday, May 13. Bridge City was the designated home team for game three, and the home...
The Little Cypress Mauriceville Lady Bears battled the defending state champion Liberty Lady Panthers in the third round of the Class 4A softball playoffs. The Lady Bears lost two games and were eliminated from the post season. Liberty came into the best of three series with LCM having won their four previous playoff games by a lopsided combined score of 51-2. Little Cypress Mauriceville won four of five playoff games in order to advance to the third round. The first game of...
The young Orangefield Lady Bobcats have advanced to the fourth round of the Class 3A state softball playoffs. Orangefield started four freshmen and a sophomore as it swept the Pollok Central Lady Dogs in two games to move on in the post season. The two games were played in Jasper a neutral site. The Lady Bobcats pulled out an exciting win in the opener 7-6 in walk-off fashion. Central showed why it was undefeated in its district scoring four runs in the first inning of the...
Orangefield High School has its first student athlete in the school's history to sign a college scholarship to play golf at the next level. Xander Park signed with Jacksonville College on Monday, May 15, to play golf while attending the school in Jacksonville, Texas, beginning in the fall. Orangefield golf coach Todd Trawhon is proud of Xander and his brother Lincoln. "We knew having Xander and his younger brother Lincoln in our program it was really going to help us out....
Little Cypress Mauriceville has advanced to the third round of the Class 4A state softball playoffs. The Lady Bears swept two games from the Carthage Lady Dawgs over the weekend in the area round. Friday's game was played in Lufkin. The Lady Bears won 18-4 in a game shortened to six innings because of the 10-run rule. All nine starters for LCM recorded a hit in the blowout. Jillian Brown went four for four with three runs driven in. Ansley Moore had three hits and three rbis....
Orangefield won its third straight playoff game without a loss and advanced to the third round of the state softball playoffs in Class 3A. The Lady Bobcats completed their sweep of the Coldspring Lady Trojans at Cleveland's Hal McClelland Sports Complex softball field on Friday. After winning a one game playoff with Central Heights in bi-district Orangefield opened its best of three area round playoff with Coldspring in Anahuac on Thursday. The Lady Bobcats defeated the Lady...
Orangefield opened its run in the post season with two impressive wins over the Pollok Central Bulldogs. The Bobcats won both games by scores of 13-3 at the Hal McClelland Sports Complex in Cleveland. The first game on Friday night saw the Bulldogs actually jump out to the initial lead. Three base hits resulted in Central taking a 1-0 lead after the top of the first inning. Leadoff batter Kane Smith singled to spark a seven-run outburst for the Bobcats in the bottom half of...
The Bridge City Cardinals have advanced to the second round of the state baseball playoffs in Class 4A. The Cardinals made short work of the Splendora Wildcats sweeping them in two games. The best of three series was played at a neutral site in Anahuac which has an all synthetic baseball field. Bridge City was the second seed from District 19-4A and Splendora was the third seed in District 20-4A. The first game was played on Friday evening. The Cardinals had solid hitting and...
An outstanding student athlete at Little Cypress Mauriceville will be changing colors from green to blue beginning later this year. Senior Dean Reynolds signed his scholarship on Wednesday, May 3, to attend and play baseball at Columbia University in the city of New York. Reynolds is a four-year letterman in baseball at Little Cypress Mauriceville. As a junior Dean was the starting tight end and punter on the varsity football team and became the quarterback for the Bears...
A replica of the most famous ship in the history of the United States Navy is now located in Orange. The three-foot long ship model of the USS Constitution was built by long-time Orange resident Dean Sechler and was donated to the Orange Public Library by his daughter Joan Tharp on Friday, April 28. Sechler moved to Orange from Pennsylvania and worked on Chemical Row for decades. In his spare time Dean built close to thirty ship models, all in great detail. Sechler passed...
The Bridge City Cardinals closed their regular season on a five-game winning streak and finished in second place in District 19-4A to make the post season. The Cardinals were 9-3 one game behind the district champion Vidor Pirates. The last week of the regular season had two games between Bridge City and the West Orange Stark Mustangs. The Cardinals won both games. On Tuesday the Cardinals scored six runs in the fifth inning to beat the Mustangs 8-1 at Ronnie Anderson Park....
