Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Orange County will get a new representative in Congress, barring a huge shift in a redistricting plan put forth by a committee of Texas lawmakers. Under the plan, which still must be passed by the full Texas Legislature and signed by the governor, U.S. Rep. Randy Weber’s 14th District would include Orange County instead of the county being a part of Texas House District 36, represented by U.S. Rep. Brian Babin. Since 1842, Congress requires every state to draw single member d...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville's football team is sitting pretty as it enters District 10-4A Division I play this week. After slogging past Jasper 13-0 last week, Coach Eric Peevey has his first Battlin' Bears squad off to a 4-1 start. That's three wins more than LC-M garnered last year in a season affected by storms and the coronavirus pandemic. "The thing about sports is you can have an incredible preseason, but it can go down fast," Peevey said. "[Undefeated district foes]...
A second open meeting to hammer out a new work contract between Orange County's leaders and their sheriff's deputies is expected soon. Dustin Bock, president of the Orange County Sheriff's Office Employee Association which represents about 85 of the county's 120 deputies, said the lawmen were waiting to hear back from the county and settle on a meeting date and time. The first open meeting between the Orange County Sheriff's Office Employee Association and the county took...
New Bridge City Football Coach Cody McGuire didn't waste much time waking up the echoes in his football program. In fact, he's waking up the heroes of the Cardinals' Glory Days and having them visit with current BC football players at 7:30 a.m. on Mondays. "It's just important to get the young guys with the guys who've been there and won state," McGuire, Bridge City's first-year coach, said. "For kids who have heard about that state championship team all their lives, it's...
Republican U.S. Representative Brian Babin, the Woodville dentist who represents Orange County in Congress, signed on to help lead an effort to impeach President Joe Biden. Passage of the resolution, led by Ohio Rep. Bob Gibbs, isn’t expected to succeed as the Democrats control both houses of Congress. The resolution accuses Biden of breaking his oath of office by failing to secure the border, failing as Commander-in-Chief in the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan a...
Orangetober Festival is coming to Orange’s Riverside Pavilion Oct. 1-2. Highlights include an insane number of pumpkins -- more than 11,000 – trucked in from the Panhandle and the Gumbo Cook-Off put on by the Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce. The free community event kicks off at 11 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 1 and tours of the Pumpkin Village will show off the melons and gourds. Of course, a field of pumpkins means photo opps for the entire family. Kids’ games and activ...
Bridge City ISD recognized students from Bridge City Intermediate and Bridge City Elementary schools who won local UIL academics awards at their Tuesday night meeting. Categories included spelling, mathematics, reading, writing, chess, numbers sense, maps, charts and graphs, listening and dictionary skills. First- through sixth-place finishers were honored....
Come for the pancakes. Make a commitment for the kids. The Bridge City ISD Education Foundation is hosting an Alumni Pancake Breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 9 in the Bridge City High School Cafeteria. It’s the first official fundraiser for the BCISD Education Foundation, local citizens aiming to support BCISD faculty and students. Friday, Oct. 8 is Bridge City’s homecoming football game against Hardin-Jefferson. Wake up Saturday, come out and visit with fel...
Orange County will hold open deliberations for a new bargaining agreement between the county, its Sheriff, Lane Mooney, and the Sheriff's Office deputies' association at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22 in the commissioners courtroom. The three sides have been operating under a collective bargaining agreement created in 2009 and only partially amended since because the deputies refuse to give in on two primary features of the CBA. At the same time, the deputies agreed to a "me too"...
Big boys' toys in two-, three- and four-wheel models and power equipment to get the job done once you get where you're going. It's all under one very big roof at the new Columbanus Motor Sports that opened Wednesday at 3500 IH-10 West in Orange. It's located at the turn from the service road that goes to the winery at Free State Cellars. Grand Opening will be Friday and Saturday, Oct. 15-16, featuring two days of food, music, live radio remotes and at least a half-dozen local...
Orange County taxpayers receiving their 2021 property tax bills next month will like that this year's tax rates are staying the same or even being reduced. They'd hate to think how much their tax payments would have gone up otherwise. Oh, those tax payments will be going up. Because of a lofty 13% rise in property valuations across the county, the owner of an average homestead will see their taxes rise about $200 per year. The City of Orange was going to be one of the last...
Orange County Judge John Gothia disagreed Thursday with allegations that he and Commissioner Johnny Trahan were at fault for holding private bargaining sessions aimed at a new contract for the county’s deputy sheriffs. Gothia acknowledged Thursday that the Orange County Sheriff’s Employees Association was seeking more pay and the continuation of a “just cause” clause, which allows for arbitration in disciplinary circumstances inside the department. He said the non-pos...
School boards and message boards have all seen an overload of angst over COVID-19, cases of which are skyrocketing among school-aged youngsters. While four parents opposed to schools imposing a mask mandate appeared at an Orangefield board meeting in August, others are voting for everyone to wear a mask. Or to just stay at home. "A concerned parent" emailed her plea to a Little Cypress-Mauriceville board meeting a week ago. "My son tested positive today for Covid after one...
If you’re scoring at home on the secretive backroom meetings between Orange County and its sheriff deputies, well, chalk up one for the deputies. County Judge John Gothia said Tuesday afternoon that Commissioners Court had agreed to extend the pre-impasse deadline for an additional 15 days to Sept. 22 and proposed three dates, at 2 p.m. Sept. 13, 2 p.m. Sept. 15 and 2 p.m. Sept. 16 for open-to-the-public negotiations. Tuesday’s announcement came after the issuance of two gri...
Kirk Roccaforte, longtime Bridge City mayor, recalls his first look at his hometown after Hurricane Ike made landfall on Sept. 13, 2008. The mayor and other key city personnel spent the night of Sept. 12-13 in a school building in Little Cypress, away from the storm's worst but close enough to get back in a hurry. "When I topped Cow Bayou Bridge, all I saw was water. "It was a really sinking feeling. I didn't know what was going to happen. I didn't know if we could survive...
Thankfully, Hurricane Ida didn't come Texas' way, but that didn't stop the Orange County Sheriff Office from pitching in to help. Sheriff Lane Mooney sent two teams to assist in disaster recovery efforts in an area where winds wiped out nearly all of the infrastructure. The first team included the department's drone unit, members of the department's narcotics unit and Jasper Constable Joe Sterling. This team assisted the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff Office located in Houma,...
Jo Harris says her family's Orange Mercantile store is having a run on horse, cattle and swine de-wormer. "Normally, I'll keep six or seven bottles on the shelf, and when I run out, I just order six more bottles and they come in a few days," Harris said. "I have ivermectin ordered since Aug. 9, and every week, I order some more. I've ordered 36 bottles one size, 18 bottles another size and two more of a third size. "But I haven't had any on the shelf to sell since Aug. 9." Ive...
Josh Smalley’s 10th season as Orangefield’s head football coach and athletic director opened with a bang last week. His veteran Bobcats, coming off back-to-back postseason berths, walloped Anahuac 46-13, with a veteran line leading the way for three backs to surpass 100 yards each in rushing. “We’ve got a lot of room to improve,” Smalley said, eyeing this week’s schedule. “Woodville will be a difficult challenge.” Preparing his team for difficult challenges has been Smalle...
As COVID-19 infected another 691 of its residents this week, Orange County signed up with Jefferson, Jasper and Newton counties to establish an infusion center in Beaumont to treat the infected before they have to go to the hospital. Also: * West Orange-Cove schools became Orange County's first school district to defy Gov. Greg Abbott's order against requiring students and teachers to wear masks. * Orange County Commissioners voted unanimously to grant a 10-year tax abatement...
Part of new Bridge City football coach Cody McGuire's promoting his new program to players involves championship aspirations, as depicted by a Michael Jordan six-ring photo and game balls from Austin Westlake's back-to-back state championships. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers The Friday night lights go on for keeps this week as the 2021 Texas high school football season kicks off. At least one team – Bridge City – will be plenty familiar with the lights, though. Under new head coa...
Orange's City Council approved a proposed balanced 2022 budget of $25 million Tuesday night, and members expressed delight that the city, under City Manager Mike Kunst, had set aside another $12 million as a reserve fund. "I'm ecstatic we've hit the magic numbers we had discussed," Councilman Brad Childs told Kunst. That led to council's approval of a three-year plan by Kuntz to spend down an extra $1.7 million left in the kitty. Kuntz proposed spending $700,000 in 2022 for...
The bass fishing team of Jack Tindel and Brett Fregia scored another landmark national tournament finish for Lamar State College Orange last weekend. Tindel and Fregia finished 12th in the Bassmaster College Championship held on the St. Lawrence River in Waddington, N.Y. One hundred and fifty two-man teams qualified for the three-day tournament. Tindel and Fregia ranked in fifth place after one day, catching a five-fish limit of 21 pounds, 7 ounces. After a 17-1 bag on the...
George Bohn has been a train ‘nut’ for more than 60 years, and says it’s an inherited trait, having picked it up from his dad, who began collecting model train sets in the 1930s. But Bohn, a board member of Friends of the Depot who could tell you weeks in advance all the details of Thursday’s visit to Orange by the largest-ever steam locomotive, is small potatoes when it comes to going the extra mile. “We’ve got a member of our model train club in Orange who’s a snowbird,” Bo...
School bells rang Wednesday morning, signaling the start of the 2021-22 school year for about 10,000 students on the south and east ends of Orange County. The first day of school for Bridge City, Orangefield and West Orange-Cove school districts is Aug. 11 and Little Cypress-Mauriceville schools open up Aug. 16. How many show up was the big question going in. “The biggest challenge right now is we don’t know what to expect as far as students,” Mike Kelly, Bridge City super...
