Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Two-term Orange City Councilman Patrick A. Pullen said Tuesday afternoon he hadn't decided if he would seek a recount after losing his seat by seven votes Saturday. Final election results were announced Tuesday after the May 3 deadline for receiving mail-in votes postmarked by election day. A total of six new votes were added to Saturday's total, one each in six races. None affected the outcome of any race. David C. Bailey, a former Orange County Sheriff's Office Chief...
Two-way selection Emma Humplik is among four softball teammates and their coach from Orangefield leading the way among Orange County picks to the All-Star games set for June 16-18. The Southeast Texas Coaching Association announced the players and dates and times for the Sixth Annual CHRISTUS All-Star Classic at a news conference Monday. CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Sports Medicine and Beaumont Bone and Joint Institute are the title sponsors. Rebekah Ragsdale, Orangefield High...
Summertime, and the county's wallet is thin. It's getting to be an annual refrain in Orange County thanks to an onslaught of weather and health disasters that keep draining the Rainy Day Fund. This year looks like no exception. Orange County's hurricane history was few and far between prior to 2017's Harvey but in the aftermath of Hurricanes Rita and Ike in 2005 and 2008, County Commissioners had to borrow money to keep things running until disaster assistance arrived from...
Randy Branch will be Mayor of West Orange after capturing 68.7% of the vote against Jim Whittington in the Spring 2021 election that ended Saturday evening. Misty Songe and Ronnie Herrera face a runoff for the position of Mayor in Vidor, after finishing 1-2 in a three-way race in which no candidate received 50% plus one of the total votes cast. Branch, pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church, will take the place of longtime West Orange mayor Roy McDonald, who earlier this...
In 46-year-old Cody McGuire, Bridge City's school district hired its new head football coach/athletic director from the staff of Texas' back-to-back Class 6A Division I state champion, Austin Westlake. After Monday night's unanimous vote by the BCISD board members at the recommendation of new Superintendent Dr. Mike Kelly, McGuire admitted via Google Meet he hadn't known a lot about Bridge City when he was encouraged to apply for what will be his first head football coaching...
As early voting for the Saturday, May 1, 2021 city and school board elections kept the Orange County Elections Office busy the past few weeks, two men filed to run for county office in September of 2022. Former Orange County Precinct 3 Constable Mark Philpott and Mauriceville gun store employee Tim McCarver both turned in paperwork to designate campaign treasurers. Philpott, while naming his wife Babette his treasurer on the form dated April 20, did not fill in the blank that...
Patrick Pullen, Orange council member seeking reelection in District 1 in Saturday’s election, says he’s had a yearning to serve fellow man since enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1975. And uncertainty over whether he could physically continue to do the job for another three-year term kept the retired Orange Police captain from registering to run until the Valentine’s Day deadline. Former Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy David C. Bailey is running against Pullen. He filed while P...
They’re back. The petting zoo, pony rides, bouncy house, dancing by the Orange Blossom Dancers and musical entertainment by the Orange Community Players. By popular demand, Depot Day is returning to the Orange Train Depot Museum at Green and 10th Saturday, May 1. The annual fundraiser for the 1908 Orange Depot, which served the community’s travelers for nearly three quarters of a century, is back after taking a year off because of COVID protocols. It runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p...
What is today the Nelda and Lutcher Stark Foundation began in Orange nearly 150 years with the opening of the Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company in 1877. But among the many interests of the extended family in throughout the years since, automobiles ranked high. "The Stark Family was an early adopter of the automobile," Joshua Cole, Education and Program Manager, said Tuesday during a special preview of "Rolling Art: Vehicles from the Permanent Collection" at the Stark Museum of...
Bridge City's four qualifiers for the State Girls Powerlifting Meet were honored at Monday night's board meeting. Randi Dunigan, right, was honored as Bridge City ISD Bus Driver of the Year by the school board at its meeting Monday. Presenting the award are Transportation Coordinator Ronda Hale, left, and Joseph Reese, BCISD Director of Operations....
Bridge City's school district held its first monthly board meeting with new superintendent Mike Kelly Monday night. Kelly announced the May 28 high school graduation ceremony will have no limits on tickets for graduates' families and no mask requirement. The event will be live streamed for those unable to attend....
A $15,000 cash "Team of the Year" payout is there for the taking in the 2021 Sabine Redfish Series, four monthly fishing tournaments based out of the High Tides restaurant on Cow Bayou. The first tournament is Saturday and the deadline to register for the Team of the Year prize is Thursday at the Captain's Meeting being held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at High Tides. Subsequent tournaments will be held May 15, June 26 and July 31. Saturday afternoon weigh-ins will take place at...
Commuters between Bridge City and Orange have probably noticed a lot of activity on the pasture land between Texas 87 and Foreman Road. The owner of the 1,700-acre property located across Farm to Market 1006 from the original Chemical Row, is, of course, Chevron Phillips Chemical. The petrochemical giant based in the Houston suburbs began acquiring the land in 2018 and announced in early 2019 that it was considering building a $5.6 billion multi-unit ethylene plant expected...
Justice took a lunch break in Orange Wednesday to honor the longtime leadership of retiring West Orange Mayor Roy McDonald. No fewer than eight Orange County judges, three county commissioners, one current and one past neighboring mayor and a rando lawyer or two came to Wednesday Lunch Bunch on April 14 to honor retiring West Orange Mayor Roy McDonald. Roy Dunn, owner and publisher of The Record Newspapers, called the first meeting in 13 months for the Lunch Bunch to surprise...
Roy McDonald was elected Mayor of West Orange 10 years before the Houston Astros played in their first World Series. Or, to put it in Orange County terms, since being elected mayor in 1995, McDonald's leadership has seen the town of 3,500 residents through Hurricanes Rita, Humberto, Ike, Harvey, Laura and Delta and Tropical Storm Imelda, the ice storms of 1997 and 2021 and Sabine River flooding of 2015 and 2016. He has served as Chairman of the Orange County Housing...
Orange City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to award a $2.9 million contract to N&T Construction to build the City of Orange Recreation Center. The structure will be built in the footprint of the former Orange Natatorium and will have room for two full-size basketball courts or multiple volleyball courts. It can host weekend tournaments, open gyms or possibly league. “It’s something a lot of us have been looking forward to since we passed the bond issue in December of 201...
Downtown Orange and the west bank of the Sabine River were jumping over the weekend, filled with folks out to enjoy great weather and fun wherever one looked. "Great weekend! Fantastic job, Orange Texas," city councilwoman Mary McKenna said, a sentiment repeated by her colleagues at Tuesday's city council meeting. The bass tournament based at the Orange Boat Ramp Thursday through Sunday – officially titled the Dovetail Games Bassmaster Elite at Sabine River – turned out the...
Early voting for spring 2021 city and schools elections begins Tuesday, April 19 and two Orange County cities could wind up with new mayors. Orange Mayor Larry Spears, Jr., is being challenged by Charles Thomas while in West Orange, current alderman Randy Branch is running against Jim Whittington for mayor after the retirement of Roy McDonald. All voters except those from West Orange can go to the polls at any one of the four Orange County early voting sites April 19-27 and...
Folks at the Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers likes to call themselves “Champions of the Texas Coast.” Who are way more important than Guardians of the Galaxy, in the minds of any right-thinking, flood-weary Orange County residents. Those Champions have been having closed-doors meetings with city and county elected leaders to discuss plans for a system of levees, floodwalls, gates and pump stations being designed to reduce the risk to human life and eco...
The Dovetail Games Bassmaster Elite at Sabine River fishing tournament is something Eric Perez has been looking forward to. "This is the first time we've had an event where things are really open like they used to be," the longtime B.A.S.S. event director said Tuesday, speaking of Texas dropping its mask mandate and crowd-size limitations a few weeks back. "Of course, bass fishing, by nature, has distancing in it already. We paused like most of the world did last March, but...
Navy Park was a beehive of Easter finery Sunday, awash in bright colors, packed with children and their parents, and overflowing with smiles. Among those enjoying themselves were the organizers of the Easter Egg Hunt and neighborhood get-together, a group of 30- and 40-somethings giving back. "We were kids in that community at one time. It's time for us to give back," said Nicholas Jackson, who along with friend Robert Jack is credited with coming up with the idea for "Fruit...
Homebuilders were busy framing and roofing in the new Silver Bridge addition off Ferry Road in Bridge City on Friday, April 3. Fourteen homes ranging in price from $260,000 to $300,000 are under construction by builder DR Horton, a nationwide firm with Texas roots. RECORD PHOTOS: Dave Rogers...
Carl Harbert started his Good Friday with one of the many good deeds he has provided his hometown since he retired as a plant manager. He helped his 93-year-old next-door neighbor put in a garden. "I guess it's the way I was raised," he said. "As you get older, you take care of the older people," he said, "and I've been cutting his grass for a while now. "I just believe in helping people." Since 2018, Harbert has been Bridge City's Place 1 City Council Member. He is seeking...
Bills under consideration in both houses of the Texas Legislature this year would create a taxing district to pay for upkeep on the “Ike Dike.” The five-county Gulf Coast Protection District includes Orange County and the price tag for operating and maintaining the coastal barrier is estimated to exceed $100 million per year. County Judge John Gothia says taxpayers should take a breath. And definitely not panic. That cost would be shared by Galveston, Harris, Chambers, Jeffers...
The masks have come off – some have in some places – and there will be no Easter services in parking lots in Orange County this year. But expect a big celebration outside First Baptist Church of Orange. Members there have stuffed 12,000 plastic Easter eggs with candy, reports Josh Fults, the new pastor. "We're having our first ever Saturday evening service at 5 p.m. with an Easter egg hunt after," he said. "Sunday, we're doing the same thing for two services, at 9:45 a.m. and...
