Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Jacob Anderson, left, Jagger McCollum, Mark Pesek and Caleb Granger, students at St. Mary Catholic School, join Peggy O’Leary with some of the 2,000 oranges they picked from O’Leary’s trees and delivered to Orange Christian Services as part of a recent school service project. For The Record Fruit from the Holy Land taught a Christmas-time lesson to several Orange students whose recent service to their community did not go unnoticed. The short version is that an Orange resident...
For The Record She shined a spotlight on her hometown and now Bridge City is returning the favor. Historian Charlotte Schexnider Chiasson, whose latest work – “The History of Prairie View – Bridge City” – is undoubtedly sitting under many Orange County Christmas trees, has been named Citizen of the Year by the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce. Chiasson will be honored at the Chamber’s Taste of the Bayou annual banquet set for 6 p.m. Jan. 9 at Bridge City Elementary School, 103...
Colleen James is surrounded by snowmen and other seasonal decorations and gifts in her Sweet Creations Etc. shop in Orange. A Utah native, she has been in business in Orange County for 27 years but she still likes her snow. For The Record This week’s freezing temperatures reminded Colleen James of her roots in Utah but the long-time Orange County resident knows better than to expect a white Christmas. She’ll still have snowmen, though. With Colleen, there are always sno...
For The Record The good news coming from Orange Christian Services this Christmas season is that the number of clients served by the food pantry is down in 2016. The bad news is the totals are still wicked high. “We’ve seen the numbers go down a little this year,” Judy Jensen, executive director for the social services agency, said. “That gives us hope people are getting back on their feet.” But there’s this statistic: One of every four children in our area are hungry. “It...
Football coach Kevin Sumlin, left, presented Orange native Alex Sezer Jr the Aggie Heart Award at the Saturday, Dec. 10 Texas A&M football banquet held at Kyle Field. For The Record These are busy times for Alex Sezer, a Little Cypress-Mauriceville grad who puts the student in student-athlete. Four years after he graduated from high school early to get a jump on earning his Texas A&M football scholarship, Sezer is set for another December exit. He’s graduating from A&M F...
For The Record All the hard work comes to fruition Saturday, Dec. 17, for all those working behind the scenes in Orange County’s Blue Santa program. Blue Santa is a community assistance program organized by the Sheriff’s Office and numerous community volunteers. Their goal is to provided holiday gifts for underprivileged children in Orange County. Deputy John Badeaux, Blue Santa coordinator, said their year the organization is providing for 209 families that include 443 und...
For The Record After last week’s negative finding in its appeal of damages awarded in a jail death lawsuit, Orange County is hoping for a last-gasp ruling. County commissioners met in closed session for 90 minutes at the end of Tuesday’s commissioners court meeting to discuss the Nov. 29 ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. That decision not only rejected the county’s appeal of the 2015 jury decision that awarded $1.5 million in damages to his family for pain suffe...
For The Record NFL All-Pro Earl Thomas missed his team’s game two weeks ago with a hamstring injury, then broke his leg in Sunday night’s return and finally told his Twitter followers he was considering retiring. Whaaaaaat? It’s been a crazy couple of weeks for Earl’s fans, who number quite a few in his hometown of Orange and even more across Longhorn Nation and millions across the NFL. Thomas, the 2015 Person of the Year for the Record Newspapers, was all-state in high school...
For The Record Don’t look for the head coach of the Navarro Panthers to say anything crazy and wind up on the West Orange-Stark bulletin board this week. You could almost hear Les Goad genuflecting to Cornel Thompson and the Mustangs over the phone Tuesday afternoon. “Well, they’re just awfully talented and have been here multiple times,” Goad said about the Mustangs, his team’s opponents in a Class 4A Division II state semifinal game at 7:30 p.m. Friday at NRG Stadium i...
For The Record Robert Rothrock remembers exactly where he was late Sunday afternoon Dec. 7, 1941, when he heard about the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor. “Me and some kids had been down to the creek and we were (walking) on the Cotton Belt Railroad tracks coming home,” says the 91-year-old Little Cypress resident, a native of Fort Worth. “This boy I was with had two little sisters and they came and told us they heard it on the radio.” Alice, Rothrock’s wife, was just 7 an...
For the Record When folks look back on the 2016 Bridge City Cardinals football team, they’ll see a group of players that refused to quit. The clock just ran out on them, as Stafford won the third-round Class 4A Division I playoff game 37-28 last Friday in Channelview. That after Bridge City rallied from a 31-14 deficit to get within three points. Only an unsuccessful onsides kickoff with 1:59 to go separated the never-say-die Cards from a tying field goal or winning t...
For the Record The party line topped judicial experience Tuesday in Orange County, when commissioners court selected a longtime local funeral director over four practicing attorneys to take over for retiring Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 David Peck. Hershel Stagner, Jr., an employee of Claybar Funeral Home for 36 years and the company’s Operations Manager for the last 15, will take the $63,118-per-year office in January and serve through 2018, when he’ll be up for re-electio...
For the Record It’s a performance with a cause, not just applause. So says Terri Gauthier of Thursday’s “The Light of the World” community Christmas program set for a 7 p.m. start at Bridge City High School. Admission for the night of music, dance and more is $5. All proceeds go to the Bridge City/Orangefield Ministerial Alliance to benefit local families in need. About 200 students have signed up to participate and another standing-room-only crowd is expected for the 10th ho...
For the Record It was no fluke that Fallon Foster’s latest photo shoot featured her and a rolling cart of program materials. “I’m constantly going,” says the family and consumer science agent with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. “I’m go, go, go.” Foster greeted a guest in her office at the Orange County Expo Center on FM 1442, just south of Interstate 10. But she made it clear she spends most of her time on the road. “I just finished up a ‘Do Well, Be Well’ diabetes...
For the Record The City of Pinehurst’s deal to bring an H-E-B grocery store to the vacant MacArthur Shopping Center will refund $1.056 million in sales taxes over what is expected to be a seven-year period. That’s one of the details of the city’s big Nov. 8 announcement revealed in a copy of the Economic Development Agreement (EDA) furnished by the city in answer to a Texas Open Records request. The city’s investment, though, is expected to be paid back many times over be...
For the Record The Bridge City Cardinals will realize a dream for every high school football player Thursday – to still be practicing on Thanksgiving Day. Of course, this year that means they’ve played themselves into the third round of the post-season, something the Cardinals hadn’t done since 2005. “I was excited for the kids,” coach Dwayne DuBois said of his team’s 39-19 win over Bay City last week. Friday, the 9-2 Cardinals take on Stafford at 7 p.m. at Channelview...
For the Record Was the Coalition Opposing Vidor Loop 299 beating a dead horse when it presented its case before Orange County Commissioners Court Tuesday afternoon? Did Hillary Clinton turn out to be the shoo-in for president that most pollsters were saying? Coalition members Ellen Buchanan and Leslie Barras were not about to assume that headline-grabbing grass roots opposition has killed the proposed $63 million investment-slash-gamble with taxpayer money. They piled on some...
For the Record The wheels are turning again for the move of Orange’s City Hall but no one’s going anywhere for a while. The Thursday decision by the Texas Ninth Court of Appeals in Beaumont that Orange’s Master Plan is “a guide” and not a law freed the city to continue with a move it began in January – the purchase of the First Financial Building on 16th Street. The sale’s closing is expected to be finalized in December. “We’re very excited that the city’s litigation has been...
For the Record While nothing as eye-catching as last week’s pictures of Donald Trump sitting down with Barack Obama in the Oval Office has surfaced, there is another post-election transition going on right here in Orange, Texas. Four newcomers to leadership roles at the county courthouse were officially elected last Tuesday and, like Trump, they will officially take office in January. But there was no November surprise in vote-counting for incoming county commissioners J...
For the Record Orange County did its part in helping businessman Donald Trump shock the world Tuesday. In their race for the presidency of the United States, Trump, the billionaire developer/reality TV star, was leading former First Lady Hillary Clinton in electoral votes with only a handful of states still undeclared at midnight. In an election that saw a record 32,142 votes placed in Orange County, the final totals here were 25,385 for Trump -- who captured nearly 80...
For the Record The 2016 volleyball playoffs ended for two Orange County teams last week with losses to “ton” teams. First, Huntington knocked out Bridge City 3 sets to 2 in bidistrict Nov. 1 and Tarkington was a four-set winner over Little Cypress-Mauriceville in the area round on Nov. 3. LC-M, 29-15 overall, tied Silsbee for the District 12-4A title at 9-1. “We had a great season working as a team and accomplishing goals all the while being heavily supported by some great...
For the Record With its first district championship since 2002 in the bag, the Bridge City Cardinals have reason to celebrate 2016. But they’re not looking to rest on their laurels. “I thought last Friday we played maybe our most complete game of the year,” Cardinal coach Dwayne DuBois said of Bridge City’s 56-14 win over Huffman in the Nov. 4 regular-season finale. “That doesn’t mean we’re playing as good as we can, but it does mean we’re peaking at the right time. You want...
For the Record Pinehurst is set to welcome a new neighbor. And maybe even a Pied Piper for economic growth. The city council celebrated Election Day by voting unanimously on economic development incentives to bring a new H-E-B grocery store to the vacant MacArthur Shopping Center on MacArthur Drive. Additionally, council voted to create a reinvestment zone around the new H-E-B store that would grant property tax incentives to people that want to build or improve that area....
No trend watcher would be foolish enough to predict Orange County changing from red to blue in next Tuesday’s presidential election. But a woman can dream, can’t she? Deborah Mitchell, Orange County Democratic Party chair, has been enjoying recent speculation that Hillary Clinton could become the first Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win Texas’ electoral votes, now numbered at 38. “If Texas doesn’t turn blue, I think it’ll turn purple,” sh...
For the Record The Bridge City Cardinals survived the frying pan in fine fashion. Now, they’ll play with fire. Navasota, a new opponent for the Cardinals in District 10-4A Division I, has won two state football titles in the past four years – the 2012 Class 3A Division II title and the 2014 Class 4A Division I crown. The Rattlers are 2-1 in district. But they’re 2-6 for the season, having started 0-5. In district, they’ve beaten Huffman and Cleveland and lost to Silsbee...
