Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The following items are compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) law enforcement reports. Small World A Polk County game warden was contacted by a woman on social media asking if he had any meat to donate for her family of six. The warden donated deer meat and after getting to know the family, learned the dad was a disabled veteran and hadn’t been hunting in over 10 years since before the military. The warden then reached out to local landowners and got a hunt donated for him and one of his children at...
BCP Boomtown and LifeShare Partner for Valentine’s Event Beaumont Community Players (BCP) Boomtown Film and Music Festival and LifeShare Blood Banks have partnered to create a community event this Valentines Night. From 6-9 pm on Sunday February 14th the three organizations will host a blood drive and drive-in movie night in the parking lot of the Betty Greenberg Center for Performing Arts at 4155 Laurel Ave Beaumont, TX 77707. The event is free of charge and will feature several local films as well as a preview of BCP’s lat...
In 2008, Hurricane Ike ravaged Bridge City. Though the main campus of Bridge City High School was spared, the original gymnasium built in the 1950’s, received over 18” of water. That gym would later serve the Junior High Campus when the high school moved to Bower Drive. Since 2004, when the high school moved back to its Texas Avenue location, it again served the BCHS campus and continues to serve the community. Less than two weeks after the flood waters receded, the gym flo...
Two Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School senior choir members, Nick Hanson and John Paul Sulak, progressed through a lengthy and highly contested All-Region, All Area, All-State competition, both getting to the All-Area level, with John Paul earning the prestigious honor of being named a Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) All-State Musician. Over 50,000 students initially entered the TMEA All-State competitive process and 1,860 students have been named to 2021...
Arthur Wayne Ferguson, 69, of Orange, passed away on February 3, 2021 in Port Arthur. A private family memorial service will be done at a later date. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, on September 1, 1951, he was the son of Edward Ferguson and Pernecie (Rowe) Ferguson. Art started working for Texaco at the age of 18 and stayed with the company as it transferred over to Motiva. He later retired after 37 years of hard work with the company. Art enjoyed going to concerts, fishing, and...
The Southeast Texas Regional Emergency Operations Center has received confirmation from the Texas Department of State Health Services that we are officially a large HUB provider and have 11,000 doses of vaccine in route to Jefferson County next week which will be allotted to our coalition partners based on the percentages outlined in the distribution plan. Some important reminders: DO NOT show up to any vaccination sites until you have received a confirmed appointment time from the Public Health Department. No one will be...
The Little Cypress Junior High 7th grade A Basketball Team won the District Championship Monday night. They had an undefeated season. Pictured first row from left are Jaden Scales, Justin McCarver, J'Lynn Morris, and Darrion Morris. On the back row are Carson Kelley, Rylan Pelt, Parker Freeman, Khayden Reed, and Braylon Lewis. The Coach is Hunter Gonzales....
Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD was able to provide the first round of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to District staff who wished to take the injections. Vaccines were provided by Aurora Concepts, who has worked with the District in years past to hold immunization clinics for students and flu shots for staff. They will receive their second injections on March 4. LCMCISD is the first District in Orange County to be able to offer the vaccine to its employees. Photos Caroline...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD is pleased to announce Eric Peevey as the new Athletic Director and Head Football Coach for LCM and the Battlin' Bears. Peevey is no stranger to the LCM organization or Orange County. He started his career in 2003 with the Orangefield ISD, with short stints at Crosby High School and another year at OFISD before coming to LCM, where he served as Offensive Pass Game Coordinator, Wide Receiver and Tight End Coach and Assistant Track Coach from...
OHS CX Debate teams competed at the 22-3A District Meet. Brayden Burgess and Bryce Moore earned 1st place and qualified to compete at the state level meet in March. Leroy Bergeron and Kimber Carpenter placed 6th. Congratulations to these students and their coach, Bridget Trawhon....
"I, Johnny Asevedo, am seeking Election for City Council of Pinehurst TX. I am a Husband, proud Father of three and Pastor of Destiny Church in Pinehurst. As a graduate of Orangefield ISD, student at Lamar Orange - I have established my life in this City and I am willing to operate with integrity, good faith, hardwork and honesty to see Pinehurst grow for the better. My Mission is to help restore and bring the positive increase and unity needed to our City- by not just...
The Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Grand Re-Opening of Mallory Ramirez Agency - Allstate. The office is located at 2496 Suite D MLK King Jr. Drive Orange, TX 77632. While this agency is 8 months young there are 22 years total experience between the staff. This office is newly & beautifully renovated, you will feel right at home and welcomed with a smile from one of the agents each time you visit. You can call them and get quotes...
Big Thicket National Preserve is looking for volunteers on Presidents Day, Monday February 15th for a second Longleaf Pine Tree planting event. During a normal Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event, volunteer will plant 16,000 trees and this year volunteers planted nearly 5,000 trees. Resource managers are hoping volunteers will be able to plant 8,000 long-leaf pine trees on Presidents Day. Due to current COVID-19 conditions, Big Thicket has modified the event to allow f...
Bridge City Cardinal senior baseball player Slade Foreman signed with Angelina College this week. Slade and his teammates gathered together for the signing. It was a great start for the Cardinals as the 2021 Texas high school baseball season gets underway. Coaches: Chad Landry, Shea Landry & Hunter Uzzle...
Each February for 19 years, countless volunteers spend 10 days on the water along the Texas coastline searching the bays for abandoned crab traps left to foul shrimpers' nets, snag anglers' lines, "ghost fish," and create unsightly views. To date, they've hauled off more than 38,000 of these derelict traps. From February 19th through the 28th, Texas coastal waters will be closed to crabbing with wire mesh crab traps to facilitate the annual volunteer crab trap cleanup. Any tra...
Our last high school track and field newsletter was sent from a completely different world than this one. We were starting to prepare for spring breaks and district meets. Then the Covid19 life began – a life unlike any previous existence. There went the abrupt halt of track season and it never returned. Now we hopefully begin with a new one. Plenty of dreams – team and individual – were shattered and or delayed to this year. So we have a different world and it’s going to require the assistance of many sources for us to be a...
Joseph Lee Sonnier, 87, of LaPorte, Texas and formerly of Bridge City passed away at Bayshore Hospital in Pasadena, Texas. Joseph was born on January 2, 1934, in Lacassine, Louisiana to Alle and Norma Sonnier. He was a former member of St. Helen’s Catholic and was a retired mason in construction and landscaping. He had lived in Port Arthur from 1965 to 1979; Bridge City from 1979 to 2009 and in Mauriceville from 2009 until 2017 before he was moved to LaPorte. Joseph loved t...
Milton Ted Matkin was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on April 11, 1933. He passed away as a result of advanced dementia in Allen, Texas on January 23, 2021 just three months before his 88th birthday. He was preceded in death by his wife of nearly fifty years, Mary Allie Matkin (Hilson), his parents, Milton Matkin and Lucille Davis, his sister Bobbye Lou Callaway, brother Jerry Davis, and his son-in-law Randy Kolar. Ted served in the United States Air Force for four years...
Bryan Thomas “Pee Wee” Allen, 41, of Bridge City, Texas, passed away on January 29, 2021, at his home. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, February 5, at St. Henry Catholic Church in Bridge City. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Thursday, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born in Beaumont, Texas, on September 19, 1979, he was the son of Michael LaMarr Allen, Sr. and Mary Nell (Daniels) Allen....
Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD Administrators attended the annual We're Paying It Forward event, hosted by Education First Credit Union in Beaumont last week. According to Faith Brammer, Community Relations Coordinator for Education First, "This program was developed seven years ago to support local education while allowing Education First members to direct a portion of their own dollars back into the communities in which they live and work." Besides the money provided...
Jimmie Edgar Linscomb, 83, of Orange, Texas, passed away on January 29, 2021, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont, Texas. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 3, 2021, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating will be Brother John Sims of Bethel Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born in Orangefield, Texas, on...
Charlotte Slaughter, 74, of Orange, passed away on January 18, 2021, at Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m., Friday, January 22, 2021 at the Bridge City United Pentecostal Church Family Life Center, 2056 W Roundbunch Rd Orange, Texas 77630. Officiating will be Pastor Murray Ray of Bridge City United Pentecostal Church. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Visitation will be from 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., January 22, 2021 a...
On January 25, 1839 the Lone Star flag was adopted by the Third Congress of the Republic of Texas as the national flag since Texas was an independent nation at that time. When Texas joined the United States as the 28th state six years later, the national flag became the state flag. Here are five things happening around your state: 1. Senate Redistricting Committee to begin hearings The Senate Committee on Redistricting will begin the important work of meeting to hear testimony from around the state regarding the redrawing of...
Larry Lyle Garrison, age 75, of Orange, Texas, passed from this life on Thursday, January 21, 2021, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. The family will be having a private Memorial Service at a later date to honor Larry’s life. Arrangements were entrusted to Dorman Funeral Home. Larry was born on Sunday, January 6, 1946, in Beaumont, Texas to parents, Tiny Lee (Hampshire) and Lyle Garrison. Larry was a longtime resident of Orange, Texas where he was known and l...
Brenda Gale Bergeron Brimer left this world to be with the Lord on January 22, 2021, at the age of 72. She was born in Orange on August 17, 1948 to Joe and Myra Bergeron. Brenda was a native of Orange where she attended school in the Cove. She lived in Orangefield for most of her life and worked for many years in Orange. Brenda was also a self-taught seamstress and made beautiful handmade dresses including her daughter’s high school prom dress. In later years she was happy t...
