Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Photo by Tommy Mann Jr. Orange County country music group Country Outkasts travel across the Sabine River this Friday, Jan. 12, for a concert inside the Jack Daniels Bar and Grill at L’Auberge Casino Resort in Lake Charles, La., for ages 21 and older. Admission is charged at the door. Entertainment for the week By Tommy Mann Jr. The Record Another week of the new year has arrived and several big name music acts are headed to Southeast Texas and Southwest Louisiana in the coming days. Take a look at the list below and find o...
Beth Ann Windham, 78, of Orange, Texas, passed away on January 6, 2018, at her home surrounded by loved ones. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, at First United Methodist Church in Orange with Reverend John Warren officiating. A private burial will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Beaumont. Visitation will be prior to the service beginning at 10:30 a.m. Born in Beaumont, Texas, on September 11, 1939, she was the daughter of John Revelle Everett and...
“I don’t know what will happen once they are actually on the water, but they both cast well and will fish from can-to-can’t,” said Gerald Johnson after giving his twin grandsons a trip for Christmas.“We are dedicated duck hunters so don’t worry about canceling due to the weather.” It turned out that Kane and Karlin were seven year old twins that had been hunting on the family rice fields with Geepaw virtually every day of the season since they were five years old.Kane agre...
KAZ’S KORNER There’s a good chance the four teams that were victorious in last week’s National Football League Wild Card Playoffs won’t even show up next month in Super Bowl LII at Minneapolis. In fact, the Atlanta Falcons are the only NFC team that made last year’s playoffs, getting to the Super Bowl before blowing a huge lead and losing to the New England Patriots. Because of their experience in last year’s playoffs, the Falcons are the only team winning last week that is favored in this week’s Divisional Round, holdin...
Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017 Ronald Gene Morris, 68 of Bridge City, went to be with the Lord after suffering ill health many years. Ronald was born in Orange and was the youngest of 4 children of Ocie and Bessie Morris, both deceased. He moved with his parents from Orange to Bridge City when he was a baby and grew up and attended schools in Bridge City. Ronald was kind hearted and loving with his many friends and family, and was known as “Moose”. He often gave gifts for no rea...
Shirley Elizabeth Hudson, 92, of Orange, Texas, passed away on January 5, 2018, in Beaumont, Texas. Funeral services will be 10 a.m., Saturday, January 13, 2018, at First United Methodist Church in Orange. Officiating will be Pastor John Warren. Burial will follow at Dorman Cemetery in Orange. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, January 12, 2018 at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born in Orange, Texas, on October 15, 1925, she was the daughter of Charles Emory...
Cynthia “Cindy” Muriel Cain, 74, of Bridge City, Texas, passed away on January 4, 2018, in Houston, Texas.Born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 23, 1943, she was the daughter of Glenn Miles and Alma Fay (Brockman) Theivagt and step father Sherwood Theivagt. She graduated from Beardstown High School Class of 1961. Cindy worked for the United States Postal Service in Bluff Springs, Illinois for over 20 years after retiring in 2002, she and her husband moved to Texas to be closer to grandchildren and was a faithful member of...
Bridge City, Texas, January 9, 2018 – The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that the January Student of the Month for Orangefield High School is Meara Patterson. Meara was presented her certificate and gift bag by Bridge City Chamber Ambassador Kristen Tompkins, Marketing VP of Sabine Federal Credit Union at the January coffee hosted by Best Day Spa. She received gift certificates and gifts from: The Classy Peacock, COS Printing, Wellspring Credit U...
Dave Rogers For The Record With three opponents standing between him and re-election this year, County Judge Stephen Brint Carlton took another try Tuesday to set the record straight about last month’s Hospital District Election. Not his fault, he said. Not the fault of Commissioners’ Court, either. “The hospital district election came about as a petition of the people, which they have a right to do by state law,” Carlton said. “Nobody can stop them from doing it. This comm...
Dave Rogers For The Record Hurricanes and floods have left the city of Orange with more to deal with than damage and debris. They’ve spawned a paperwork monster. But city council took action Tuesday to slay that monster by voting to add a new employee to Orange’s Finance Department. The minimum annual salary for the new position will be $34,000 and the maximum of $46,000, with the total annual costs running between $52,000 and $74,000. “It will cost the city more in expenses if we don’t have this person to handle filling...
Dave Rogers For The Record The Taste of the Bayou banquet is no longer an exhibition. It’s a competition. Restaurants, catering businesses, bakeries, food trucks and other purveyors of culinary pleasures that contribute their tasty treats to the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce annual banquet Jan. 22 will be going all out to win the diners’ votes this year. “We’ve never done this before,” B.J. Hanneman, the chamber’s administrative assistant, said. “But we think it’s going to...
Dave Rogers For The Record Life is full of twists and turns, but it will be a perfect circle when Chad Jenkins takes over as Justice of the Peace for Precinct 2 next year. The Orangefield High School ag teacher will get what he says is his dream job by replacing the man who gave him his first job, Derry Dunn. Dunn was principal at Mauriceville Middle School when Jenkins was a student. Then Dunn, as Little Cypress-Mauriceville principal, hired Jenkins a decade later. “Of c...
Dave Rogers For The Record It’s that time of year and Bridge City’s Matt Bryant has been a busy man. The 42-year-old place-kicker for the Atlanta Falcons has made 11 straight field goals in his last three games, leading his team to the second round of the NFL playoffs. The wild card Falcons, coming off an 26-13 upset win over the Los Angeles Rams, are favored by some to knock off the NFC’s top seed on the road at Philadelphia Saturday. “I’d say that even after 17 games we...
