Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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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 an...
Commissioners tabled action on a contract with Gov-Pay to enable the Orange County Tax Assessor-Collector office to accept over the counter debit/credit cards. Payments with credit/debit cards has been available online, but not for transactions made in person at the tax office. OC Tax Assessor-Collector Lynda Gunstream said she had checked several different services and the county would get a better price with Gov-Pay. “There is a convenience fee which is required,” said Gunstream. “The customer pays the convenience fee....
Houston Texans fans were very disgruntled when their team lost three of their final four regular-season football games and missed out on having the home field advantage for the entire National Football League playoffs. But if they watched the conference championship games Sunday, they found out real fast that the home-field advantage isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Both the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots earned the right to host the entire playoffs at their respective home stadiums, but both teams fell fla...
Officers from the Orange Police Department responded to the following calls between Jan. 18, 19, 20, 21, and the morning of Jan. 22: Possession of marijuana, 111 Pine Assist public, 706 W. Park Public service, 1712 Rein Assist public, 3626 Ridgemont Public service, 1207 Cypress Resisting/interfering with police, 2900 Lutcher/EconoLodge Traffic accident, 5700 Velma Jeter Natural death, 1040 S. Hwy. 87/Cypress Wood Warrant service, 15th and Green Assault/family violence, 4446 Memorial Follow-up investigation, 3609 W. Park...
Students from Community Christian School competed in the ACSI District Spelling Bee held in Houston on Jan. 18. Marlaina Delarosa placed fifth overall in the seventh grade competition. Josh Howard, who won first place in the eighth grade competition, received a gold medal, and advanced to the Spell Down competition. Jacob Carter placed third in the sixth grade competition and also qualified for the Spell Down completion where he placed second overall out of 16. Jacob will...
RECORDING FOR POSTERITY Barack H. Obama made history in 2008 by becoming the firstAfricanAmerican to become United States President. On Jan. 21, 2013, on the day that would have been Martin Luther King’s 84th birthday, President Obama was sworn in for a second term. He and Vice-President Biden’s inauguration drew over a million people. Obama’s first inauguration four years earlier made Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream real. Four years earlier President Obama expressed grim resolve to overcome an economic crisis that had driven...
A recent gun threat at Little Cypress-Mauriceville schools has left investigators searching for clues to see who is responsible for starting the rumors. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office along with administrators from LCMCISD are working on identifying the persons responsible for the wide spread rumors of students at the high school or students from surrounding schools who had or would be bringing guns to the LC-M High School campus. The OCSO has investigated multiple social...
Juanita Rascoe Ducote, 85, of Bridge City passed away Monday, Jan. 21, in Orange. The funeral service will be at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 24, at First Baptist Church in Bridge City with Pastor Bob Boone officiating. Interment will follow at Oak Bluff Cemetery in Port Neches. A gathering of family and friends will be from 12:00 p.m. until service time at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday at the church. Born in Haynesville, LA on Jan. 31, 1927, Juanita was the daughter of Baxter R. and...
Sonya Lynn Garcia Flowers, 47, of Orange, passed away Friday, Jan. 18, in Vidor. Born on Sept. 26, 1965 in Orange, to her parents, Dakota Lee (Hester) Garcia and Richard Felix Garcia, Sr., she was a lifelong resident of Southeast Texas,. She was of the Baptist faith and she worked as a research technician with the Chevron Chemical Company. Sonya enjoyed fishing, hunting and scuba diving and will be remembered most for her happy go lucky spirit and her sense of humor. Sonya is...
Bridge City Lady Cardinal senior catcher Annelise Borg will be moving on to play softball for Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama at the end of the 2013 season. Borg is scheduled to sign the letter of intent at Bridge City High School on Jan. 31 at 2 p.m. Borg is a three year starter for the Lady Cardinals and named Honorable Mention All-District catcher in 2011 and 2012. She has also been a member of the Lady Cardinal track team. Borge is an Honor Roll student and a member of the BCHS Criminal Justice and Spanish...
John E. Berwick, 72, of Winnie, died Jan. 19, at his home in Winnie surrounded by his wife and children. He was born in Beaumont to Hart and Olite Berwick on June 29, 1940. John was retired from the Texas Department of Transportation and was the owner of Winnie Mini Storage. He worked as an electrician in the Golden Triangle area for 30 plus years at Unocal and taught his craft at Lamar Institute of Technology. John was an avid motorcyclist, square dancer and loved to listen,...
Happy 4th Birthday Leland Clay Gros! From Dad, Mom, ‘GG,’ Uncle Sean, Uncle Collin and all of your loving family. We love you very, very much!...
Jerry and Melanie Troups, of Bridge City, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jacqueline Megan Toups, to Joshua Carter Elliff. Joshua is the son of Bill and Holly Elliff of Maumelle, Ark. The bride-to-be is a 2006 graduate of Bridge City High School. She attended Lamar University in Beaumont, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in family and consumer sciences, family studies. Miss Toups is a graduate student at Dallas Baptist University where...
Lutcher Theater and David Self Ford joined together to Stomp out Hunger-Focus on Food. A challenge was issued to local schools to fill a Ford Focus with non-perishable food items by Jan. 17. It’s an attempt to remind the public to donate food throughout the year and not just during the holidays. Schools participating were offered a special rate on tickets for the Tuesday or Wednesday performances of STOMP, a show where a unique eight member troupe uses everything but c...
The National Earth-Kind Rose Team recently received the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s Superior Service Award in the team category. The award, presented Jan. 8 during the annual Texas A&M AgriLife Conference in College Station, is given to staff who demonstrate outstanding performance or provide exceptional service to AgriLife Extension, an educational outreach agency of the Texas A&M University System. AgriLife Extension team members include: Steve Chaney, h...
