Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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As Orange County explores avenues to get more COVID-19 vaccinations into the arms of its citizens, two things keep getting in the way. The county does not have a hospital, an issue for about five years. And it doesn’t have a health department. As it is, Orange County has fallen underneath the coverage of the Hardin County Health Department. Commissioner Theresa Beauchamp wants a health department. “We [current commissioners] had nothing to do with getting rid of the prior heal...
To say that Tammi Fisette has spent her life at Bridge City’s City Hall wouldn’t be entirely accurate. But it would come close. Her father, Judge Don Peters, was Bridge City’s mayor in the late 1990s, after serving more than a decade on city council and city commissions. And then he served a two-decade tenure as Bridge City’s municipal judge. “When I was little, I’d go to City Hall with my dad all the time,” she said. “That’s pretty much how I got my foot in the door. “Where...
"I, Johnny Asevedo, am seeking Election for City Council of Pinehurst TX. I am a Husband, proud Father of three and Pastor of Destiny Church in Pinehurst. As a graduate of Orangefield ISD, student at Lamar Orange - I have established my life in this City and I am willing to operate with integrity, good faith, hardwork and honesty to see Pinehurst grow for the better. My Mission is to help restore and bring the positive increase and unity needed to our City- by not just...
Thanks to the Big Thicket Natural Heritage Trust and its partners the future of a public trail in the Big Thicket has been secured. The almost mile long Dogwood Trail is one of the last remaining "Woodland Trails" – a network of nature trails on private land that were maintained by the Texas Forestry Association. Most of the properties that were part of this regional public recreation amenity have since been closed to public access as privately owned timber lands have been s...
SABINE RIVER FORD SPONSORS RODEO Come watch the cowboys in action. Two big days, Friday, February 5 and Saturday, February 6, at Tin Top Arena, 3810 Old Peveto Rd., Orange. The rodeo starts at 7:00 P.M. Pre-event tickets on sale at Sabine River Ford, $10.00 each or at gate $15.00 each. Trey and Amie Smith are the top management team for Sabine River Ford. Trey is the son of Ross Smith and is an Orange native. Sabine River Ford is locally owned and operated. The Smith’s are l...
World champion bull rider Cody Teel from Kountze is one of several National Finals Rodeo qualifying cowboys chasing the prize money at the 3rd annual Sabine River Ford Pro Rodeo Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5-6, at T-2 Arena in Orange. “Man, I don’t know where all these cowboys are coming from,” Chad Havens, event host, said. “We’ve probably got 30% more contestants entered than we ever have.” The rodeo, held at T-2 Arena, 3810 Old Peveto Road, runs from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. bot...
The third week of session is coming to a close. The Redistricting Committee has been meeting every day this week to hear testimony from the public and Senate Finance will start meeting next month. Here are five things happening around the state this week: • Texas Gun and Ammo Sales Rise Gun and ammo sales are skyrocketing in Texas again this year. Some retailers said their sales doubled in 2020 when compared to 2019 and they're struggling to keep inventory on the shelves. A...
John 16:33 "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." There are some comforting thoughts to be drawn from this awesome passage. First of all, I want you to think about what is happening in this fallen world. We are seeing apocalyptic events all over the world. Nations are coming apart spiritually and morally. The consequences of such reality are devastating to t...
Join the Orange County Master Gardeners, Sunday, Feb 27. for “An Overview of Traditional Native Plants and Herbs for Health and Medicinal Benefits". This will be the first in a series on Native plants and Herbs which will focus on different topics such as herb teas, decoction and other uses in everyday life. The seminars are FREE and are limited to 12 people in each of the two sessions. Sessions will be (1) 9:00AM - 10:30AM and (2) 11:00AM - 12:30PM. Each participant will be given their own Native plant or Herb to take h...
The Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Grand Re-Opening of Mallory Ramirez Agency - Allstate. The office is located at 2496 Suite D MLK King Jr. Drive Orange, TX 77632. While this agency is 8 months young there are 22 years total experience between the staff. This office is newly & beautifully renovated, you will feel right at home and welcomed with a smile from one of the agents each time you visit. You can call them and get quotes...
The annual meeting of the Friends of the Orange Depot will be held at the Depot on Thursday, February 11, 5:30 PM. A casual BBQ dinner will be served before the meeting begins. All safety protocols will be upheld: masks, unless eating, social distancing in the large room Members and guests will be able to view the brand new scrim shades coving the windows in the reception room. This is the product of Phase One of our museum projects. The public will be able to see them at a later date, when the depot will be open for tours....
Big Thicket National Preserve is looking for volunteers on Presidents Day, Monday February 15th for a second Longleaf Pine Tree planting event. During a normal Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service event, volunteer will plant 16,000 trees and this year volunteers planted nearly 5,000 trees. Resource managers are hoping volunteers will be able to plant 8,000 long-leaf pine trees on Presidents Day. Due to current COVID-19 conditions, Big Thicket has modified the event to allow f...
Bridge City Cardinal senior baseball player Slade Foreman signed with Angelina College this week. Slade and his teammates gathered together for the signing. It was a great start for the Cardinals as the 2021 Texas high school baseball season gets underway. Coaches: Chad Landry, Shea Landry & Hunter Uzzle...
Each February for 19 years, countless volunteers spend 10 days on the water along the Texas coastline searching the bays for abandoned crab traps left to foul shrimpers' nets, snag anglers' lines, "ghost fish," and create unsightly views. To date, they've hauled off more than 38,000 of these derelict traps. From February 19th through the 28th, Texas coastal waters will be closed to crabbing with wire mesh crab traps to facilitate the annual volunteer crab trap cleanup. Any tra...
Our last high school track and field newsletter was sent from a completely different world than this one. We were starting to prepare for spring breaks and district meets. Then the Covid19 life began – a life unlike any previous existence. There went the abrupt halt of track season and it never returned. Now we hopefully begin with a new one. Plenty of dreams – team and individual – were shattered and or delayed to this year. So we have a different world and it’s going to require the assistance of many sources for us to be a...
Big trout in the winter are not caught by accident, take advantage of the conditions when they get right. How many times have you had it happen to you? After hours of fishing, struggling, changing baits, and changing tactics it finally happens, the fish finally decide to cooperate and all is right with the world again. That brief period of euphoria wipes away all the memories of cold boring hours spent probing empty acres of water; it's the opportunity we all search for yet...
Sunday's Super Bowl LV at Tampa Bay will feature several historic firsts when the hosting Buccaneers meet the defending world champion Kansas City Chiefs in a game that kicks off a 5:30 p.m. on CBS. Super Bowl LV will be the first to pit the quarterbacks who won the game in the two preceding seasons, according to this week's issue of USA Today Sports Weekly. The quarterback match-up between Tampa Bay's Tom Brady, the 43-year-old GOAT, and the Chiefs' 25-year-old Patrick...
Good Day Everyone! I hope you all are having a beautiful week. This week I would love to talk about the sweet nectar of the world, Raw all-natural Honey and its many gifts to humankind. If it wasn’t for our special little buzzing buddies, we would be lost without this wonderful natural resource. Like many other topics we will discuss over time, honey is another one that has always been around as long as our flying friends have been there to create it. People of the past s...
The combination of some seriously low tides and a little more north wind than needed are keeping Sabine Lake clarity on the muddy side, but the trout are apparently adapting to successfully hunting down their next meal. The most encouraging aspect is that most of these fish are in the two to three pound class! The big trout are still missing in action, but improving numbers of solid fish is something to get excited about. It was a long time coming. I have only had two...
Joseph Lee Sonnier, 87, of LaPorte, Texas and formerly of Bridge City passed away at Bayshore Hospital in Pasadena, Texas. Joseph was born on January 2, 1934, in Lacassine, Louisiana to Alle and Norma Sonnier. He was a former member of St. Helen’s Catholic and was a retired mason in construction and landscaping. He had lived in Port Arthur from 1965 to 1979; Bridge City from 1979 to 2009 and in Mauriceville from 2009 until 2017 before he was moved to LaPorte. Joseph loved t...
Milton Ted Matkin was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on April 11, 1933. He passed away as a result of advanced dementia in Allen, Texas on January 23, 2021 just three months before his 88th birthday. He was preceded in death by his wife of nearly fifty years, Mary Allie Matkin (Hilson), his parents, Milton Matkin and Lucille Davis, his sister Bobbye Lou Callaway, brother Jerry Davis, and his son-in-law Randy Kolar. Ted served in the United States Air Force for four years...
Bryan Thomas “Pee Wee” Allen, 41, of Bridge City, Texas, passed away on January 29, 2021, at his home. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, February 5, at St. Henry Catholic Church in Bridge City. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Thursday, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born in Beaumont, Texas, on September 19, 1979, he was the son of Michael LaMarr Allen, Sr. and Mary Nell (Daniels) Allen....
Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD Administrators attended the annual We're Paying It Forward event, hosted by Education First Credit Union in Beaumont last week. According to Faith Brammer, Community Relations Coordinator for Education First, "This program was developed seven years ago to support local education while allowing Education First members to direct a portion of their own dollars back into the communities in which they live and work." Besides the money provided...
Jimmie Edgar Linscomb, 83, of Orange, Texas, passed away on January 29, 2021, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont, Texas. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 3, 2021, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating will be Brother John Sims of Bethel Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born in Orangefield, Texas, on...
