Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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(Orange, TX)- Lutcher Theater is presenting Freedom Riders, Tuesday, January 25, 2022, with performances at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Freedom Riders, a new play with original songs and music, explores the valiant and courageous personalities behind one of the most critical chapters in the history of the U.S. Civil Rights movement. The unforgettable heroes, and the facts behind the events portrayed in Freedom Riders, are essential to a full understanding of the Civil Rights era...
GALVESTON – What started off as a run-of-the-mill investigation into a series of boat title discrepancies, concluded this past summer with multiple felony charges against three individuals suspected of running an interstate theft ring and the recovery of over $275,000 worth of stolen watercraft and other vehicles. Sergeant Game Warden Jonathan Griffin of the Marine Theft Investigation Unit facilitated an impressive two-year investigation into the organized crime ring leading to a nomination for Investigator of the Year A...
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is announced that the January Student of the Month for Orangefield is Hunter Beard. Hunter is ranked 2 of 138 with a GPA of 4.84. Pictured from Left to Right:, Britni Briggs, Hunter Beard, Rea Wrinkle, Stephanie Roberts. Photo courtesy of Bridge City Chamber of Commerce....
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that the January Student of the Month for Bridge City is Juan Angel Becerra. Juan is ranked 4 of 196 with a GPA of 4.7. Pictured from Left to Right: Alisa Huckaby, Tim Wooley, Margarita Becerra, Juan Angel Becerra, Dr. Mike Kelly, Dave Derosier. Photo courtesy of Bridge City Chamber of Commerce...
Velma Agnes Villanoueva, 83, of Bridge City, passed away on January 3, 2022, in Beaumont surrounded by her two sons, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter. Funeral services will be 2:00pm, Sunday, January 16, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Visitation will be from 12:00pm to 2:00pm, on Sunday. Born in Morse, Louisiana on January 1, 1939, she was the daughter of Walter LeLeux and Salome Hargrave LeLeux. She was...
Federico Chavez Guerra, 88, of Orange, passed away on January 5, 2022, at home. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m., Saturday, January 15, at St. Mary Catholic Church in Orange. Officiating will be Father Joseph P. Daleo. Burial will follow at St. Mary Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Friday, with a rosary starting at 6:30 p.m., at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born in Mexico, on February 3, 1933, he was the son of Gregorio Guerra and Alejandra...
6th Pelin Aras, Paxton Arkeen, Christopher Ayres, Easton Bland, Jason Brisendine, Austyn Bryant, Brayden Bull, Taylor Burkett, Kate Buysse, Max Buysse, Zain Chakiwalla, Khylie-Ana Chance, Kylee Chevalier, Harmony Chisholm, Colt Cruse, Robert DeShazo, Evelyn Dinzeo, Parker Dishon, Greyson Doucet, Dean Durham, Wyatt Ernst, Aiden Erwin, Camden Fall, Marlee Figari, Davin Fountain, Jaydon Garcia, Mackenzie Halliburton, Rylee Hebert, Emma Hernandez, Adrian Hersey, Leighton Hersey, R...
George Raymond Peery, 86, of Bridge City, passed away on January 5, 2022, at his home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, January 13, 2022, at St. Henry Catholic Church in Bridge City, TX. Burial will follow at St. Mary Cemetery in Orange. Visitation will begin at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City. Born in Orange, Texas, on December 20, 1935, he was the son of Vernon Peery and Olamph Nezat Peery. George served in the Uni...
Joe Prentice Elam, 80, of Bridge City, passed away on January 8, 2022, at his home surrounded by his family. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, January 12, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City. Officiating will be Chaplain Mike Anderson and Mel Erwin. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City. Born in Orange, Texas, on August 3, 1941, he was the son...
6TH GRADE HIGHEST HONORS - Jaxon Agerton, Millie Amy, Logan Anderson, Natalie Bickham, Hannah Bisson, Hunter Block, Camryn Burleigh, Brayden Burnett, Jocelyn Droddy, Luke Erickson, Raleigh Forse, Noah Gleason, Sidney Harris, Zoey Harvey, Caleb Hebert, Kynzlee Herman, Brylie Johnson, Ava Josephson, Teal Kibodeaux, Zane LeDoux, Haley Lincecum, Remi Moran, Kolte Morgan, Alayna Perez, Austin Phillips, Laykin Potter, Brooklyn Rasberry, Keaton Raymer, Hunter Reeves, John Royer, Andr...
First Grade A Honor Roll- Avery Arnold, Sawyer Atkins, Anthony Austin, Derk Babin, Harper Bailey, Wyatt Beers, Hailie Bell, Olivia Bevil, Riley Bland, Haden Boullion, Camryn Brister, James Brown, Jett Brown, Jaxon Cook, Gracelyn Deets, Jonas DeMontmollin, Karson Dixon, Weston Droddy, James Dyer, Eli English, Tripp Falcon, Jacob Fuller, Kendall Garner, Jeffery Gibbs, Rylie Gibson, Ayden Gillespie, Mia Goetzmann, Rosalinda Gonzalez-Ponce, Henley Goodwin, Colsyn Granger, Rhett...
9th Grade Highest Honors Santiago Baca, Chayla Chester, Caris Gaudet, Matthew Golemon, Colt Longron, Jessica Madrid, Embrie Manshack, Zachary Morrow, Liliana Sanford, Koen Sharp, Abby Slaughter, Adam Tsan. 9th Grade Honor Roll Jayde Baggett, Landri Bertrand, Gracie Bickham, Natalie Black, Presley Bland, Hannah Block, Gracie Bradley, Jaxon Briggs, Lani Burwick, Hayden Carroll, Cassidy Childers, Katelynn Copeland, Nicholas Currie, Luke Delahoussaye, Noel Duque, Xavier Garcia,...
Brice Adrein Haney, 21, of Orange, passed away on January 1, 2022. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, on October 3, 2000, he was the son of Thomas Jefferson Haney, Jr. and Tammy Renee (Herrington) Haney. Brice was a 12th Grader at West Orange Stark High School and loved attending school. He was the most loving soul and had presence about him that could light up any room. Brice absolutely adored his Aunt Nora and she adored him! He loved Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, and going out to...
The Bridge City / Orangefield Rotary Club named Anthony Tran as their Bridge City January Student of the Month. Anthony plans to attend ATM University to pursue a career in Business and Marketing. Pictured are Tim Woolley - BCHS Principal, Chloe Tucker - BCHS Counselor, Anthony - Student and Meg Brown - Rotary President....
The Bridge City / Orangefield Rotary Club named Rachel Henderson as their Orangefield January Student of the Month. Rachel has a 3.3 GPA and plans to attend Sam Houston College to pursue a career as an X-ray Technician. Pictured are Kirsten Henderson - Sister, Payton Brown - Brother, Noah "Kai" Nguyen - Nephew, Raymond Henderson - Father, Rachel - student, Britni Briggs - OFHS Counselor, Rea Wrinkle - OFHS Principal and Meg Brown - Rotary President....
THE LEGACY OF K.O.G.T. RADIO It was somewhat sad to see the radio station shut down. It is a legend in these-here parts. I go back to 1949 with K.O.G.T., when the studio was in the Molley building on Green Ave., across from the depot. I believe it is a vacant lot now. Then Ed Lovelace talked some Jewish folks into buying it so he could manage it. The station then was moved to a two story building on Fifth St. and Main Ave. Ed had worked with Baxter and Richard Corder in Port...
A late-January groundbreaking is set on the Gisela Houseman Medical Campus in Orange, with grand opening expected in the spring of 2023. So said a joint New Year's Eve announcement by Christus Southeast Texas Health System and NexCore, a national healthcare real estate developer headquartered in Denver. "It's taken us a while to get all the pieces put together on it, but I'm pretty excited it's finally happening," Houseman, the Orange real estate investor who donated the land...
In an average year, Orange County puts on only three or four elections. But Tina Barrow and her three-person Elections Administration Office have no problem staying busy the other 250-odd workdays. That's because they have 54,000 local bosses – the registered voters – and a few hundred more in Austin. The Texas Legislature is always fine-tuning its voting rules and regulations. "We work year-round," Barrow said. "It takes like three months to prepare for an election, may...
Dr. Johnson spent Tuesday individually signing diplomas for each of Lamar State College-Orange Fall 2021 graduates. The diplomas will be mailed to students on January 6th to the address on file in the Admissions Office....
David Frenzel, Orange Fire Chief for the past 25 years is set to retire in April, ending a 53-year tenure at the Fire Department that makes him the longest serving city employee in City of Orange history. He oversaw many great accomplishments, including the construction of Fire Station No. 3, the newly constructed Central Fire Station and a remodel of Fire Station No. 2. To honor Frenzel, a native of Orange who met his wife Hildy when she worked part-time at the Fire...
ATHENS – The month of January begins a new year and with it the beginning of the 36th season of the Toyota ShareLunker program when anglers across the state, and for that matter the nation, cast their lines and fish for Largemouth Bass in Texas' world class fisheries. The Toyota ShareLunker program has played an integral part in making Texas a destination for hundreds of thousands of anglers in search of this prized sport fish. The 2021 season 35 was one for the record b...
Kay Ledbetter Texas A&M AgriLife Media Relations Farmers can look forward to a future in which their industrial hemp crops have optimal phenotypic and trait characteristics, including the potential to completely eliminate the expression of Delta-9 THC. Transgenetic industrial hemp plants growing under plant selection media at the Texas A&M AgriLife Multi-Crop Transformation Facility. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Marco Molina) Delta-9 THC is one of the plant cannabinoids with...
Has winter finally arrived in SETX? Well maybe, at least for a couple of cold days and frigid nights it has, making this the perfect time to review the litany of seed and gardening catalogues which have been piling up over the past several weeks. Seed catalogues are filled with detailed, useful information for gardeners and reviewing them provides an opportunity to learn new plant seed varieties available and to determine if they are a good match for our gardens. Perhaps you...
The best-selling and most-awarded female gospel artist of all time, CeCe Winans will perform at Lutcher Theater on Saturday, January 22, 2022, at 7:30 PM. Tickets start at $35 and are available online at lutcher.org. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more, students, and active military. Call the Lutcher Theater Box Office at 409.886.5535 for more information or to purchase tickets. CeCe Winans has long since cemented her status as one of the most accomplished and cel...
The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting 47 new COVID-19 cases in Orange County, a 56 percent jump over last week's reported 30 cases. The highly contagious omicron variant has led to a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in Texas. "It's rocking and rolling with the resurgence we're having right now," Orange County Judge John Gothia said Monday. "Our call center is receiving four times as many calls as it's been getting. We've seen a huge increase the last seven...
