Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Active cases of COVID-19 in Orange County have jumped from 3 to 317 since June 3, according to statistics posted on the Orange County Emergency Management Facebook page Thursday afternoon. Confirmed cases have risen by 183 since the last report, dated July 1, for a grand total of 487 Orange County confirmed cases since the respiratory virus first surfaced locally in March. Two new deaths -- one Vidor resident, one Orange resident -- have been added to the latest report,...
The number of new cases of covid-19 in Orange County continue to rocket up the charts with Wednesday afternoon's numbers released by health officials showing a record increase of 60 confirmed cases and 55 more active cases than a week before. The numbers, printed on the OC Emergency Management Department Facebook page, show that the Thursday June 23 statistics report dwarfs the numbers from the previous report from Wednesday June 17. Seven days ago, the County had 22 active...
More than 100 new test-confirmed cases of the Covid-19 respiratory virus have been reported in Orange County in the last week, according to a Wednesday, July 1 report. That means the total number of confirmed cases in Orange County more than tripled in the month of June, growing from a total of 98 confirmed cases in the first three months of government testing in the county to a new total of 304 confirmed cases, according to data compiled by the county Public Health...
In the midst of the worst spike yet in local coronavirus cases, Orange County Judge John Gothia has tested positive for COVID-19, he told the County Record and Penny Record newspapers Tuesday. Gothia missed last Tuesday's every-other-week meeting of Commissioners Court because he was ill, then canceled a meeting with city mayors Friday because he wasn't feeling well. He missed Tuesday's specially called Commissioners Court meeting. "I found out [Monday] night," said the county...
Caroline Mazzola Hennigan and Mary McKenna scored convincing wins over incumbents in Saturday’s Orange City Council Run-off Elections. Hennigan won 71.6 percent of the votes cast in the At-Large Place 5 race against incumbent Bill Mello, who was seeking his fifth consecutive term. McKenna scored 67.5 percent of the vote in her run-off against two-time District 4 representative Annette Pernell. Hennigan, a special education coordinator for Little Cypress-Mauriceville schools m...
PHOTO: West Orange-Stark football players take a conditioning run under the watchful eye of coach Cornel Thompson Wednesday as the team held a voluntary workout. While Josh Smalley was sending notice Tuesday his Orangefield football team planned to start voluntary practices in a week, West Orange-Stark coach Cornel Thompson was already on the practice field. Thirty-two players showed up for the Mustangs’ first practice session since Aug. 24, when then-Hurricane Harvey was bearing down on the Gulf Coast. "We're getting r...
PHOTO: City of Orange law enforcement officers are conducting residential well-being checks and leaving ribbons attached to their property. They merely mean that the property has been checked. A Monday, Sept. 4, non-fatal shooting south of Vidor was not connected to any type of looting, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office reported. A news release at midday Tuesday said: “There have not been any shootings or looting-type violence reported at this time.” Major Robert Enmon of th...
You couldn’t hardly go anywhere in Orange County the past few days – when you could go anywhere in Orange County – without encountering a storm helper from Florida. More than 400 volunteers came from Florida to help with the aftermath of Tropical Storm Harvey, folks from organizations like the Salvation Army, Southern Baptist Convention, Red Cross and Feeding Florida. And that doesn’t count the 125 game wardens from the Florida Wildlife Commission, many of whom had been bunking near the county’s Emergency Operation...
Entergy Texas officials hope they have at least a temporary fix to most of Orange County’s electricity problems. Plans are for the company to install a mobile substation to temporarily take the place of its flooded substation in Vidor’s Wexford Park addition. Tuesday began with Orange County still showing about 8,100 customer outages from Tropical Storm Harvey, which dropped about 50 inches on Southeast Texas in a five-day span ending last Wednesday. Zip code 77662, which inc...
West Orange-Cove ISD said its Middle School flooded as a result of last week’s Tropical Storm Harvey and that all its buildings received at least minor water damage. Orangefield has also announced some of its buildings were damaged. WO-C, posting on its district website, reminded parents that it planned to re-evaluate later this week if it can determine a date to start school. All of Orange County’s five public school districts held emergency meetings last week to make pla...
“Normal” may take a good while. But the numbers are definitely trending in a positive direction for storm-punched Orange County. Sunday evening Entergy reported that there were 10,800 electrical customer outages remaining after Tropical Storm Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain on Southeast Texas last week. That’s down from 26,000 on Saturday. And the reservoir level at Toledo Bend has dropped so that the required spillway release has been cut to Step 1, the first and m...
(Looking east on Green Avenue at 4th Street Saturday. Photo courtesy Don Carona) At noon Saturday, Sept. 2, the Sabine River had crested at Deweyville and Toledo Bend Reservoir had decreased its water releases into the river. In Orange, the Sabine wasn’t expected to reach its crest of 7.7 feet until midday Sunday and then, according to National Weather Service forecasters, the water won’t start decreasing until Tuesday, Sept. 5. The spillways at Toledo Bend dam north of Bur...
Entergy reported 26,000 Orange County customers without power – and air-conditioning -- at midday Saturday – nearly four days after Tropical Storm Harvey inundated Southeast Texas with record rainfall. That’s half of the 52,000 outages reported by Entergy Texas in an area that includes counties east and northeast of Houston all the way north to Huntsville. The power company says its workers are unable to work faster because waters continue to rise from the Neches and Sabin...
The Sabine River level topped its expected crest of 30.7 feet at Deweyville Friday morning, forcing the National Weather Service to adjust its forecast. It now says the major flooding caused by Tropical Storm Harvey will peak at 31.4 feet at the river’s intersection with Highway 12 late Saturday or early Sunday. The river level was at 30.76 feet at 9:45 a.m. Friday. Good news comes from upriver, where the reservoir level at Toledo Bend is going down after having remained at a...
The City of Orange was still in “rescue mode” Friday afternoon, but also crews were working hard on sewer and electric issues. Most of the City of Orange’s 18,000 residents were still lacking electricity at midday Friday, two days after Tropical Storm Harvey dumped historic rainfall. A 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew has been put into effect until further notice. The good news is the water is safe to drink. “Obviously, there was a tremendous amount of floodwater in downtown Orange, but it has been confirmed that our water supply...
The lights and air conditioning have come back on in most of Bridge City and Jerry Jones sees no reason for folks to talk about the big E. As in evacuation. “The city of Bridge City is not calling for an evacuation. Repeating, no evacuation for the City of Bridge City is in effect,” was the message posted on the city’s Facebook page Thursday afternoon. Entergy Texas reported that only about 750 of the 25,000 customer outages reported in Orange County Friday were in Bridge City. “Electricity is back on in most of our homes,...
The Toledo Bend Reservoir today increased spillway releases into the Sabine River to nearly half the surge that preceded last year’s federally declared flooding disaster in Deweyville and eastern Orange County. Downstream, the Sabine River at Deweyville reached major flooding stage of 28 feet overnight. Rainfall from this week’s federally declared disaster, Tropical Storm Harvey, has pushed the water level in the 185,000 acre East Texas lake well past the point of 172.5 feet a...
The swing bridge on E. Roundbunch Road closed Friday, a couple months earlier than expected, after this week's state inspection. The bridge is expected to be closed for almost two years until a planned bridge repair is complete, said a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Transportation. Many plant workers from Bridge City and Jefferson County travel across the swing bridge to work at jobs on Orange's Chemical Row. Clark Stacum, Orange County engineer, pointed out "it's...
