Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Officers from the Orange Police Department responded to the following calls between Jan. 26 and the morning of Jan. 27: Assault/family violence, 3 Lutcher B Circle Warrant service, 201 8th St. Traffic accident, 1703 16th St. Traffic accident, 600 Strickland Dr. Mental subject, 1813 Barkins Ave. Warrant service, 1412 S. Hart Public intoxication, 2210 Simmons Sr. Sexual offense, 100 block W. Curtis Ave. Possession of marijuana, Mississippi and New York Warrant service, 1300 block 5th St. Warrant service, 1600...
Tuesday, Jan. 27, at approximately 1:14 a.m., Officer Leonard Roff of the Pinehurst Police Department observed a suspicious vehicle in the 1900 block of Strickland Drive. The driver of the vehicle committed a traffic offense by making an illegal left turn in front of Officer Roff's police vehicle. Officer Roff attempted to initiate a traffic stop. The driver of the vehicle refused to pull over and a vehicle pursuit ensued. Officer Roff began to purse the vehicle, a silver...
Clayton Whatley, 4th grader at Bridge City Intermediate School, attended the 2014 Season Awards Banquet for The Gulf Coast Karters in Houston last weekend. Clayton received the 2014 High Points Jacket for racing in CHONDA Cadet Class. Clayton also brought home a 1st place trophy for the Spring Series and another 1st in the Fall Series while setting the 2014 fast time record holder in CHONDA Cadet with a 47.295 second lap. Clayton is entering his sixth year in Kart racing in...
Having always been a little superstitious, I recently dared to entertain the thought that possibly all I had to do to improve the “catching” part of fishing was to openly complain about the conditions.It worked a week ago! I no sooner hit the “send” key to mail in my article than Mother Nature decided to make it appear that I was trying to dissuade readers from taking advantage of a red hot Sabine Lake.The morning I wrote that column it was raining, the river was high and ste...
It’s not a good way to start a new year. I have been confined to my house thus far this month of January because of an Upper Respiratory Infection. I have had no appetite and have subsisted on mostly cereal and cottage cheese with fruit. I certainly did not want to be around people because this ailment is something I did not want to share with others. When my new friend and your very own Record's Evelyn Brandon learned I had this cold, she emailed me this recipe for Chicken N...
Keep Orange County Beautiful is pleased to announce that nominations for its Beautification Awards is now open to the public and nomination forms are available on-line at their website, www.KOCB.org. Once each calendar quarter, a Beautification Award is presented to a single residence and a single business that have best exhibited the concept of Keeping Orange County Beautiful. Award recipients may come from anywhere within Orange County. The purpose of the award is to recogni...
The Orangefield powerlifting team participated a meet Jan. 22 at WOS. The results are as follows: Girl's results: Lauren Groom, 2nd in her class; Brooke Morphew, 4th in her class; Krista Wheeler, 2nd in her class; Skyler Hammons, 4th in her class; Kathleen Lozano, 7th in her class; Bre Norton, 3rd in her class; Morghan Kelley, 5th in her class and Mahala McClanahan, 4th in her class. Boy's results: Cade Datillio, 5th in his class; Wesley Reed, 1st in his class; Cameron Guillot, 2nd in his class; Vincent Wilson, 6th in his...
Lamar University’s Wind Ensemble has been honored with an invitation to perform before the Texas Music Educators Association's 2015 convention in San Antonio. They will present a local preview of their upcoming TMEA performance at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 5, in the Julie Rogers Theatre. The ensemble will perform selections from Percy Grainger, Samuel Hazo, Henry Fillmore and others. Admission is free. Under the baton of Scott Deppe, LU’s director of bands, the Wind Ensemble is com...
Orangefield High School senior, Baileigh Perkins, signed to play softball for the University of Dallas....
The LCM High School Journalism team competed at the Nederland practice meet on Saturday, Jan. 24 and brought home several medals. Junior Jeffrey Holland placed fifth in News Writing; Sophomore Valen Elliott placed fifth in Feature Writing and senior Wendy Cates placed sixth in Editorial Writing. The team is coached by Lindsey Fruge and will next compete at PNG on February 14. Pictured left to right: Valen Elliott, Jeffrey Holland and Wendy Cates....
Bridge City High School competed at the Nederland UIL Academic Tournament on Saturday, Jan. 23. The following are the results from this contest in the large school division: In Number Sense, Kendall Gibson took 4th place; Calculator Applications, Kendall Gibson placed 2nd, Zach Dionne placed 3rd, and Kevin Fontenot placed 4th. The Calculator Applications team of Kendall Gibson, Zach Dionne, Kevin Fontenot, and Moyleang Taing took 1st place team. In Computer Applications, Amanda Chavez placed 4th and Faith Stephson placed...
What is the connection between Bridge City, Texas, Mulvey, Louisiana and Mardi Gras in Port Arthur you ask? Bradley Schexnider (Paul to his classmates from Bridge City High School, Class of 1969) left Bridge City after graduation for the small community of Mulvey between Kaplan and Gueydan, La. Over 45 years later Schexnider’s grandson, Ethan Hunt, will perform at Mardi Gras Port Arthur on Feb. 14. Schexnider’s mother, Lula Mae Schexnider, and the majority of his large family...
West Orange - Stark Elementary School students earned ribbons in individual competitions at the District UIL Academic Meet. Additionally, 11 WO-S Elementary teams also placed in various competitions. In individual competition, results are as follows: Taylor Hardin, First Place, Math, 2nd Grade; Trinity Brown, First Place (tie), Social Studies and Sierra Peoples, First Place, Ready Writing, 4th Grade;Dayarrah Womach, Second Place, Storytelling, 3rd Grade; Mirande Carpenter, Thi...
Mauriceville Middle School’s Writing teacher, Julie Pelt, received some very good news recently. She submitted seven of her students’ poems to the Anthology of Poetry by Young Americans and was notified that three of those will be published in the upcoming edition to be delivered in April 2015. The students being published include (from left) Axl Rosen, Rylee LeVasseur and Joseph Fuselier....
ExxonMobil presents Thomas Freeman at Lamar University Feb. 17 in “Living Legends - An Evening with Dr. Thomas Franklin Freeman” in celebration of Black History Month. The presentation, sponsored by ExxonMobil’s Black Employee Success Team (BEST) and hosted by Lamar University, is free and open to the public. The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in the University Theatre. Freeman, who is distinguished professor emeritus of Texas Southern University, has given more than 69 years...
Community Christian School students recently participated in the ACSI Area Spelling Bee. They went up against many bright students from surrounding schools and gave their best. Those students include: Third Grade Samiah Brown, Participation Ribbon Fourth Grade Connor Dewberry, Participation Ribbon Fifth Grade Destiny Knox, Participation Ribbon Sixth Grade Rachel Rose, Participation Ribbon Seventh Grade Kaelan Long, 3rd Place Eighth Grade Jacob Carter, Participation...
West Orange - Stark Middle School students earned ribbons in individual and team competitions at the District UIL Academic Meet. Results are as follows: Donavon Guidry, First Place, Listening Skills, 8th Grade; Willliam Reynolds Second Place , General Math, 7th Grade; Donavon Guidry, Jonatan Ramirez and Jay’zn Robinson, Second Place, Listening Skills Team , 8th Grade; Angie Vindel, Keontae Strother, and Justin Veitch, Second Place, Chess Team, 7th Grade; Kalen Green, William R...
St. Mary students participated in "Alphabet Soup Day” on Monday, Jan. 26. Students wore items that began with the same letter as their name. This is part of a week long celebration of Catholic Schools Week....
St. Mary Student Council sponsored their annual, 100th Day of Service Celebration. The homeroom classes, Library, NJHS, Art Club and Student Council participated by selecting an organization they would like to support. The PreK-3 students brought in homemade cookies for the local fire fighters; PreK-4 students brought 183 baby food and items for the Rainbow Room of Orange County and Kindergarteners collected 113 items for Orange Christian Services. First grade collected 103 ba...
For those who are curious if Baptist Hospital Orange will be closing, Mary Poole, Baptist system spokeswoman, said, "At this time there is no decision to close Baptist Hospital Orange." She said the hospital has been "evaluating services like any business does." RECORD PHOTO MARK DUNN...
WO-S High School students have competed and placed at two different UIL Academic Practice Meets held during the month of January. This past weekend, WO-S students participated in the Nederland UIL Practice Meet. Brittany Barclay competed and placed in all four journalism events. She placed second in News Writing and Editorial Writing, fourth in Feature Writing and sixth in Headline Writing. Tyffani Hinson also competed at the Nederland Meet and placed fourth in Poetry. WO-S...
This weekend, 24 Little Cypress Junior High Choir members attended the Texas Music Educators Association annual Solo and Ensemble contest at Vidor Junior High School. Students prepare and memorize a solo to sing for a single judge who gives them a written comment sheet and a rating. Superior ratings (1st division) also receive a medal that is color coded according to the difficulty of the piece. LCJH had 21 students earn Superior, 1st division ratings and three students received Excellent ratings. For four of the 21, this is...
Orange native Earl Thomas III will be playing in his second consecutive Super Bowl. His family, likewise, is making it possible for 400 fellow residents to watch him play. The Thomas family is paying for a Super Bowl watch party starting at 4 p.m. on February 1 at the Student Center at Lamar State College-Orange, according to Thereze Sichko, secretary for the athletic department at West Orange-Stark High School. It's on a first come, first serve basis. Slava Foods will provide finger foods and soft drinks for the event. No al...
Last week, Coach Dwayne DuBois returned home to become head football coach of the Bridge City Cardinals. There's another homecoming this week as Harry Murdock announced his intent to return to Bridge City, bringing his shipyard with him. Sterling Shipyard of Port Neches acquired a section of 400 acres at the foot of the Veterans' Memorial and Rainbow Bridges on Highway 87 to build a facility there. “They will develop ships and it will be a repair facility on a portion of t...
Lamar head football coach Ray Woodard has scheduled his Signing Day Press Conference for Wednesday, Feb. 4, beginning at noon in the Dauphin Complex team meeting room. One of the most highly anticipated days on the athletics calendar, National Signing Day is the first official day high school athletes can sign a letter of intent with the college of their choice. A meal will be provided at noon, followed by Woodward announcing the 2015 incoming class. Time has been reserved at...
