Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Mosquito Control Director Patrick Beebe informed the Orange County Commissioners’ Court Tuesday of an upcoming deadline concerning new permit requirements. The changes are newly adopted requirements by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). “It applies to all biological or chemical applications that meet certain use patterns that are made either over or near U.S. waters,” said Beebe. The permit is required if you are treating areas in excess of 6,400 acres. Type of materials used is another area Orange Count...
Bridge City High School has a long-standing tradition with Speech and Debate. Each year, students participate in competitions to strengthen their speaking skills, which not only builds confidence but also helps prepare them for life once they graduate from high school. The 2011-2012 BCHS Speech and Debate team has a record number of students than previous years. “It is my first year to take over but our student membership has grown from a pretty small club to 24 participating members and about 35 club members,” said Jen...
Community Christian School announced students awarded Academic All-State honors. Academic All-State in volleyball are: Ivey Benoit, Haley Brack, Lauren Jackson, Samantha Leifeste and Madalyn Tran-Reno. Jacob Trevino received an award as Academic All State in football. Ivey Benoit, setter, and Lauren Jackson, outside hitter, were named to the Second Team All State....
It certainly wasn’t a major surprise that the Baltimore Ravens defeated our Houston Texans 20-13 Sunday afternoon in the AFC Divisional Playoffs because they were favored by the Las Vegas Boys to win by 7 ½ points. But what stunned the so-called “experts” was the fact the Texans outplayed the Ravens in almost every aspect of the game except one—turnovers. Those mistakes led to 17 of Baltimore’s points and its right to advance and meet the top-seeded New England Patriots in Foxborough Sunday, with the winner representi...
FASTER I GO, SLOWER I GET Well, I’ve rolled up on another week. They sure do come around quicker than they did 30 years ago. I haven’t been up to speed the last few weeks so time is traveling faster than I am. I have to rush my mind to catch up but it still falls behind. Sometimes old folks get too much on their plate. Deadline and old age don’t go hand in hand. I need to find out what the old man at the parks secret is, but then maybe that’s exactly what I don’t need, I’m just half alive now. I’m four hours away from dea...
BCISD Substitute Teacher Orientation set for Jan. 19 BCISD Substitute Teacher Orientation will be Thursday, Jan. 19, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the BCISD Administration Building, 1031 W. Roundbunch Rd. Applications must be processed before attending this orientation. The application for substitute teacher can be found at www.bridgecityisd.net under the Human Resources tab or by visiting the BCISD Administration Building. Once the application is processed a Fast Pass Fingerprint form will be issued. All substitute teachers...
If you’re like me, an ex-English teacher from the Neanderthal days when kids learned not only literature, but the dreaded grammar, then you’ll understand when I say I am bombarded daily by evidence of a growing lack of basic and practical knowledge of those around me. Now, I said basic and practical, not technological. How well I know that twenty- and thirty-somethings on down can make an iPad dance, a Smart Phone sing, and a Nook howl at the moon, but many are still lacking in various fundamentals. Me, I congratulate mys...
For the 17th consecutive year, the Orange community is invited to work together on beautifying the streets of Orange and the banks of Adams Bayou by picking up litter during the Annual Community Trash-Off. This event, sponsored by Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center, will be held Saturday, Feb. 4, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., at Orange Lions Park, which will serve as headquarters for the Trash-Off. The Community Trash-Off began in 1995 as an effort to clean Adams Bayou and has expanded to include more than 60 streets...
Rachel Scott was the first victim of the Columbine High School shootings on April, 20, 1999. Thirteen people lost their lives that day, and the world witnessed what bullying could lead to. Rachel made an impact in the lives of many during her life by showing kindness and compassion, but even after death she is changing the lives of people across the world. Rachel believed that her life was going to impact the world and touch the hearts of millions of people. Shortly after her death, her father, Darrell Scott, found an essay...
Though it’s January, the Orange County Democratic Party is already gearing up for the 2012 election year. The party held a meet and greet with local candidates running for office Saturday night at the VFW Hall in Orange. Chairman Mark Carter said a committee was formed at the Democrats monthly meeting to organize the meet and greet event. Co-charis Carol Edwards and Debra Mitchell were instrumental in organizing the event. “It gets the candidates out there and puts a face on the ballot and people have time to visit with the...
The general public had a chance to receive information firsthand Tuesday night from Texas Department of Transportation officials on the Interstate 10 construction project. The open house meeting was held at the Orange Public Library Auditorium with various maps placed about the room for the upcoming construction project from Adams Bayou to the Sabine River. Jay Trahan, director of the Orange Economic Development Corporation, wrote in an e-mail, “The purpose of the project is to reconstruct IH-10 and to make frontage road i...
Just like the old saying “all good things must come to an end,” the 2011-2012 waterfowl season is almost over. This weekend will be the final chance for hunters in Louisiana while Texas duck and goose hunters will have one more week to finish as their season ends on Jan. 29. For plenty of local hunters it feels like the season already ended as this crazy weather pattern has made staying on the birds a challenge. Hunters who have been willing to put in the scouting time and be flexible are still shooting their birds but the...
Jay Trahan, executive director for the Orange Economic Development Corporation, believes it’s an exciting time to be in Orange, Texas. Not only has the Downtown Development Project, the Senior Center/Meals on Wheels facility, the Central Fire Station and I-10 expansion are being built or will soon to be built, but Orange could possibly be a future stop for tourists. Trahan and Darline Zavada, administrator of the Orange Convention and Visitors Bureau, recently attended a national event sponsored by the American Bus A...
Over 160 All State dancers and their dance/drill team directors attended the annual Texas Dance Educators Association convention held recently at the Houston Marriott Westchase. The dancers learned choreography from Rochelle Mapes and performed at the Directors’ Banquet. They also attended various dance workshops throughout the four-day convention as did their directors. A TDEA scholarship committee chose Victoria Scott, Hardin Jefferson High School All State Recipient, as one of six finalists out of seventy applicants to r...
Officers from the Orange Police Department responded to the following calls between Jan. 17, and the morning of Jan. 18: Theft, larceny from vehicle, 603 Strickland Traffic accident, private property damage, 2208 IH-10 Theft, other, 809 10th St....
Glenn Edward Orr, Jr., 84, a native of Hattiesburg, MS., and resident of Orange, died Tuesday, Jan. 17. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, Jan. 20, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating will be Damon Bickham, pastor of First Baptist Church Deweyville, the Rev. Lee Walker, pastor of Caddo Valley Baptist Church, and Mr. Jonathan Weldon. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Friday, prior to the funeral service. Born in Hattiesburg, on Oct. 5, 1927, Edward was the son of Glenn Edward Orr and Earline (Montague)...
An eighth grader from Little Cypress Jr. High School won the school level competition during the National Geographic Bee, which was held recently. Mark Returan, along with ten other students from across the campus competed in the competition. Other finalists competing for the LCJH title include Brandon Morrow, Abby Cart, Michael Farnsworth, Mariah Blair, Sam Ross, Justice Peveto, Hallie Stack, Dallas Stewart (1st runner-up), and Megan McKinley. Winners of school-level bees will now take a written test and up to 100 of the top...
The Orange County Citizens Sheriff Academy is scheduled to start on the Tuesday, Jan. 24. The Citizens Sheriff Academy began seven years ago, during Sheriff Mike White’s administration, and it received such strong support that it has become an honored event. The Academy will go until the beginning of March and classes will be held every Tuesday and Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. The Academy covers all aspects of what it means to be a member of the Sheriffs office. It allows the students to participate in a variety of task that t...
On Friday, Jan. 13, Mildred Colston Womack, 76, was reunited in Heaven with her mother Jewel Foster Colston. Jewel journeyed to Heaven ahead of Mildred and the rest of her family when Mildred was only six weeks old. Also there to greet Mildred was her father, John William Bascom (JB) Colston; the mother that raised her, Lois Martin Reeves Colston (Nanny); her brother Robert Lee Colston, Sr.; and her sisters, Christine Colston Turner, Mary Colston Spears, Katherine Colston Zeisler, Betty Colston Robinson, Vivian Reeves...
Joe Larned, Jr., 90, of Port Neches, passed away peacefully on Jan. 16, 2012, at Cypress Glen in Port Arthur. He was born on Dec. 9, 1921, in Haskell, TX, to Joe and Florence Tidwell Larned. Joe was preceded in death by his wife, Martha Ozelle Stough Larned. He is survived by daughters, Belinda Mades and husband, Jack of Port Neches and Laura Whigham and husband, Philip of Woodville; grandchildren Danny Powers of Groves, Chris Powers and wife, Heather of Bangkok, Thailand, Jeff Powers and fianceé, Yoshi Lindow of Beaumont,...
Tuesday, Jan. 12, at about 2:17 pm, Orange police were dispatched to the 800 block of 10th St. in reference to a theft. Officer Byrun Perry arrived on the scene and met with the victim, Katherine Brooks of Orange. Brooks told police that she observed her cousin walking in the area of 10th St. and Park Ave., and offered to give her a ride home. While en-route to her cousin’s home, Brooks stopped at a convenience store and went inside for a soda. After Brooks dropped her cousin off and returned home, she discovered that p...
