Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Courtesy photo Country music star and Orange County-native Clay Walker will perform at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 6, inside the Event Center of Delta Downs Casino in Vinton, La. Tickets start at $50 each and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets, including www.Ticketmaster.com, and the Delta Downs Casino box office. Entertainment for the week By Tommy Mann Jr. The Record A new year has arrived and that means plenty of great entertainment opportunities abound across...
James Pat Sheppard, of Mauriceville, TX, passed away on December 26, 2017. He is preceded in death by his grandparents, Ben and Jesse Lee West; his mother, Eunice West; his father, J.P. Sheppard; and his brother, Buddy Sheppard.James was lovingly raised by his grandparents in Crichton Community, AL. James is survived by his wife, Mary Caroline Sheppard; his children, Terry (Richard) Green, Thondie (Jerry) Soutullo, Tammy (Donnie Wayne) Soutullo, Pat (Tonya) Sheppard, Mark...
KAZ’S FEARLESS FORECAST AFC KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (10-6) over TENNESSEE TITANS (9-7) at Kansas City 3:20 p.m. Saturday (ESPN)—Each team got off to opposite starts with the Chiefs winning their first five games before losing six of seven and then winning their last four games while the Titans lost three of their first five games and then won six of their next seven but had to beat division-champion Jacksonville Sunday to grab the final wild card. The Chiefs have the home field advantage and visiting teams have a difficult win...
KAZ’S KORNER For the past decade or so, one or more of my favorite National Football League teams—the Houston Texans, Dallas Cowboys and Seattle Seahawks-- has been involved in the wild card playoffs. None of these three teams played well enough to earn a spot in the playoffs which begin this weekend. And all three teams were missing key players which played a huge part in their 2017 demise. The Texans lost defensive stalwarts J.J. Watt and Whitney Mercilus in the same quarter of the same game while amazing quarterback Des...
Because the catching had improved to a most acceptable level over the past couple of weeks, my only question was how we could fish all day virtually every day without missing any bowl games.That minor problem was taken care of by Mother Nature. Every parent wants to spend as much time as possible with their youngsters while they are out for the holidays and scheduling issues can become a bit hectic for returning college students.There is only so much time before they are...
ANOTHER YEAR HAS FLOWN BY GOODBYE TO 2017 It was a year of several disasters, storms and fires. On Jan. 20, a new president was sworn into office. New York businessman Donald J. Trump, who had no experience in government, became the leader of the free world. He brought into office a group of people who also had no experience in government. Many of them are now gone. Some are under indictment, with others expected. Here at home, we were hit again with another hurricane named Harvey, that brought the 100-year flood. Many home...
Photo: With heavy straps of Oklahoma ducks are Brock Carter, Jonah Lemoine, Hunter Uzzle and Jake Cowan. RECORD PHOTO: Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record Capt. Chuck Uzzle Local waterfowl hunters got a late Christmas gift as the coldest weather our area has seen in quite some time came roaring into our area and decided to stay a while. Ahead of the artic blast was a strong push of ducks and geese from the north which helped to regenerate the hopes of local hunters. The numbers o...
Dave Rogers For The Record If there are two things County Judge Stephen Brint Carlton wants Orange County citizens to remember about 2017, they are, 1: he didn’t cause Hurricane Harvey; and, 2: he wasn’t behind the hospital district election. The judge makes that pretty clear in the first couple of lines of his 2018 State of the County report he released a couple of days before 2017 ran its course. And with opponents both Republican and Democrat lined up to run against him in 2018 elections, he’s accentuating the posit...
Dave Rogers For The Record Sheetrockers Chad Lambert, Brent Ballard and Michael Clark have made Southeast Texas their home away from home since Tropical Storm Harvey went and flooded homes up and down the coast. But on New Year’s Day, the Mississippi men were partaking in an old tradition at a new place. They got their 2018 started with some “good luck black-eyed peas” at K-Dan’s in Orangefield. “We’ve been trying to get over here. We just happened to get here on New Year’s Da...
Thanks to the generous donation of Matrix Marketing Corporation of Las Vegas, Nevada, the Orange Lions Club has been gifted 0.9615 acre of land adjacent to the Lions Club Barn on Front Avenue. This would not have been possible except for the hard work of Orange Lion Club member John Backer. After Hurricane Harvey, the current club house was destroyed by the storm and there was a real need for more property to build a proper Lions Den Club House and general meeting hall....
Dave Rogers For The Record Pipes are bursting and so is the Kleenex budget as Orange County and the rest of Southeast Texas sniffles, shivers and coughs its way through a sub-freezing start to 2018. Baby New Year arrived in Orange to find local temperatures at 34 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. But that did not last for long. By 1 a.m. Monday, the storm that blanketed the Midwest and northeast in sub-zero chill factors and threatened the Florida panhandle...
Photo: College students Kayleigh Caldwell, left, and Trevor Cara measure and cut insulation for a Baptist Collegiate Ministry crew of volunteers helping rebuild homes in Orange after Tropical Storm Harvey. Dave Rogers For The Record They call Tennessee the Volunteer State. But the volunteers who are in Orange this week also answer to Tigers and Blue Raiders. They’re 100 college students from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the University of Memphis, and Middle T...
WINTER BLAST WELCOMES 2018 The new year brought a winter blast in Southeast Texas that rivaled many northern states. A five day freeze is uncommon in these parts. Low temperatures every day, for five days, are expected and mid to low 20’s, with slight warm up during the day, are predicted. No cold record was set. I recall 14 degrees and 17 degrees a couple of time in the last 30 years. The kind of weather we are having was not uncommon when I was a boy. Many of our winter days brought freezing mornings. Roof tops were snow w...
