Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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A traffic crash involving a Little-Cypress Mauriceville school bus occurred Monday, Jan. 14 at approximately 4:07 p.m. The crash occurred in the 9200 block of State Highway 12 in Mauriceville. According to the investigating Trooper, the Little-Cypress Mauriceville school bus was stopped in the westbound lane of State Highway 12 when the bus was struck from the rear by a 2007 Toyota Corolla. At the time of the crash, the school bus driver had activated the flashing stop lights and was preparing to unload school children....
United States Attorney John M. Bales recently announced a Beaumont man has pled guilty to federal carjacking charges in the Eastern District of Texas. Rogelio Arellano Torres, 19, of Beaumont, Texas, admitted to charges he car jacked a woman last year during a hearing before United States Judge Marcia Crone today in Beaumont. Torres had been indicted on July 11, 2012 and charged with carjacking in a one count indictment. According to information presented in court, on June 24, 2012, Torres forced the woman at knifepoint into...
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has recently postponed many projects by a decade or more due to lack of funds. “For 2013, there is zero funding for new roads or new transportation issues in the State of Texas,” said Orange County Commissioner Precinct 4 Jody Crump. “Through the Regional Mobility Authority’s approval legislature, some laws have been enacted and changed, modified and edited through a course of time. What it does is it affords counties opportunities to use different funding streams to leverag...
AARP income tax assistance available Feb. 1 The AARP Tax Filing Assistance Program will be offered starting at 12:15 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 at the Orange Public Library. Trained volunteers will be available from 12:15 to 4 p.m. Every Wednesday and Friday through April 15, 2013. Anyone seeking assistance should bring the following: All W-2 and 1099 Forms, including Social Security Benefits statements; Records of Capital gains and losses; Receipts of medical expenses, taxes paid, interest paid, contributions, causality...
Officers from the Orange Police Department responded to the following calls between Jan. 14, and the morning of Jan. 15: Burglary, 4450 IH-10 W. Burglary, 701 Dawnwood Follow-up investigation, 201 8th St. Failure to ID fugitive, 201 8th St. Traffic accident, 4th and Green Warrant service, 205 Border Recovery of stolen property, 5213 Bland Ln. Disorderly conduct, 653 MLK Larceny from vehicle, 16th St./Blockbuster Traffic accident, Hwy. 62/Flying J...
To a packed house the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce held their 53rd annual banquet Monday evening to announce their awards for the year. This year, the citizen of the year is Jimmy Scales. Before he started his acceptance speech he asked his family members to stand up. The group of about 20 people stood and Scales continued his speech by thanking his parents for the way he was raised. “My parents instilled in us it is better to give than to receive,” he said. But, Sca...
How many National Football League playoff games would involve two teams that have five players who grew up within 100-miles of each other? And what are the odds of two of those players who grew up six miles apart coming up with game-changing plays in the late stages of the contest? That’s exactly what happened in Sunday’s National Football Conference divisional semifinal game at Atlanta’s Georgia Dome between the top-seeded Falcons and the Seattle Seahawks, the only remai...
Fallon Mulhollan will turn 6 years old Jan. 18, 2013. Happy birthday from family and friends!...
BRIDGE CITY ELEVATION ISSUE SERIOUS BUSINESS The latest Federal Elevation Flood Map, as it stands, is devastating to the Bridge City area. Elevation has been raised from eight feet to nine feet. That’s not the entire problem however. The City of Bridge City has already raised their building code to nine feet. The major problem, it seems to me, is that the flood zones are based on the water Ike brought. The insurance companies, after Ike, refused to pay residents water damage from rising water, claiming it was a surge, not f...
Parents, health care professionals must ensure proper dosing The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently expanded the approved use of Tamiflu (oseltamivir) to treat children as young as two weeks old who have shown symptoms of flu for no longer than two days. The drug is not approved to prevent flu infection in this population. In addition, the safety and efficacy of Tamiflu to treat flu infection has not been established in children younger than 2 weeks old. Tamiflu was approved in 1999 to treat adults infected with flu w...
Little Cypress Intermediate has been awarded a $5,000 Lowe’s Toolbox for Education Grant; a nationally competitive grant. This grant will be used for Stage 1 of a “Stay and Play Recreational Area” for special needs students. A 6-foot coated chain link fence will be installed around a 40 X 40 foot area outside of the Life Skills Classroom on the west side of the campus. Once this fence is installed, the special needs students will be able to go outside and play. This had not b...
I hope it doesn’t have anything to do with getting too old because there isn’t a helluva lot I can do about that, but I towed my boat to the launch one morning earlier this week and came right back home without even putting it in the water! When you can’t find anyone else to endure a cold steady rain for a shot or two at a big trout and you have to leave the house with your slicker suit already on, there is reason to review your thought process. I didn’t abort the trip, h...
The Southeast Texas Coaches Association will have “The Beaumont Bone & Joint Hall of Honor” banquet on Jan. 26 at the Holiday Inn & Suites Beaumont Plaza at 3950 I-10 S. The banquet will begin at noon. The 2013 Inductees are Chuck Young, Ronnie Anderson, Bill Tennison, Mark Foreman and Joe Evans. The event will also honor the “Coaches of the Year” in each sport in Southeast Texas along with a “Media Person of the Year” as well as an “Official of the Year.” The public is invited to attend the banquet and tickets for the...
Texans titling a vehicle in the state and first-time registrants will soon have to show identification, enhancing public safety and paving the way for more customer-friendly automation. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) Board passed new identification rules at its Thursday meeting. The rules were required as part of two new state laws (HB 2017 and HB 2357) that mandate identification for titling a vehicle and first-time registrants. This change does not apply to registration renewals. The identification requireme...
As of January 1, the Orange Riverfront Boardwalk and Pavilion is overall 80 percent completed, according to Jay Trahan, director of economic development for the city of Orange. However, some parts are more complete than others. The stabilization stage of the project is 100 percent complete. In addition, the boardwalk at the east side of the project near Second Street and the middle section of the project between Fourth and Fifth Streets has been completed too. The storm...
In spite of the cold temperatures and rain, a steady stream of people arrived at the Bridge City Community Center to see if their residence was now in a flood zone after the federal government released new maps of the area. Those who were not able to attend on Tuesday, still have a chance to attend from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday. When arriving at the community center, people are asked to fill out a sheet of paper with their address and other various simple information. After...
Herman J. Bowler, 92, of Orange died Jan. 14, at Dubuis Hospital in Beaumont. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, Jan. 18, in the chapel of Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating will be the Rev. Barry Bradley, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Orange. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City. The family will receive friends at the funeral home for visitation from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Thursday. Born in Orange on Jan. 23, 1920, he was the son of Joseph Phillip and Winnie...
Betty Lou Humble Guillory, 78, of Orange passed away Tuesday, Jan. 15, at The Meadows in Orange. Graveside service will be 3:00 p.m. Jan. 18, at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens near Bridge City. Officiating will be the Rev. Jeff Bell, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Port Acres. Visitation will be from 1:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. Friday, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born in Orange on June 11, 1934, Betty was the daughter of Stanton and Dorothy (Collins) Humble. She was a mem...
