Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Here is a popular chicken dish that I love to cook. I hope to feature this dish on one of my daily specials coming up in March. Serve it with mashed potatoes, or Alfredo pasta. As most of you know the Bakery people that I was sharing the building with has moved out. Therefore, I have the whole place to myself now, with the exception of the renter in the back of me. But he is separate from us and rarely there. So come check out our small, cozy little place for your next lunch outing starting March 1. Our Lunches will start at...
Bridge City Police Chief Paul T. Davis recognized five members of the Bridge City Police Department for outstanding service in apprehending the perpetrators of a recent robbery. The robbery occurred at the Express Mart located at 1745 Texas Avenue at approximately 1:30 a.m. on February 9, 2012. Newly hired Dispatcher Kirk, “T.K.”, Smith and his training officer, Dispatcher Mariah Ray, received the call from the store clerk that stated she had just been robbed. They then promptly radioed the information to the patrol off...
Most any fisherman who spends time on our local waters has a theory about how the tides work and where they need to be to catch fish during those tides. Surprisingly enough there are plenty of people who don’t understand how important the tides really are, or for that matter what a tide is. According to Webster’s dictionary, tide is the periodic variation in the surface level of the oceans, bays, gulfs, inlets, and estuaries caused by gravitational attraction of the moon and sun. The influence the moon has over the tides is...
With a March 5 deadline, races are beginning to take shape for the May 12 election. Orange Former City Councilman Jimmy Sims has filed to run for mayor. Current Mayor William Brown Claybar has reached his term limit. Thus far, Sims is running unopposed. Place 1 incumbent Councilwoman Theresa Beauchamp has filed and is also running unopposed. Likewise, incumbent Charles Guillory is running unopposed for Place 6 at-large. Place 3 Councilman Jeff Holland submitted his letter of resignation to the council last week and will not...
Ricky Jorgensen, Vidor city manager, is ending his seven year tenure with the city on March 9. He’ll be the new city manager of Giddings, city on Highway 290 that is 40 miles south of Austin. Jorgensen said he looks forward to the move for two reasons: his daughter and his three-month-old grandchild lives in Austin and also Giddings has its own water, sewer and electrical works utilities. “It’s really pretty there,” he said. Jorgensen feels the city has accomplished much in his stay in Vidor. “Vidor is a good city,” he...
Nicholas Barulich and his Lamar State College-Orange team mates are training for an upcoming national competition. This event isn’t an athletic competition though, but the prep is no less intense. The Lamar State College-Orange Quiz Bowl team is currently enjoying its best ever season of competition, according to information from LSC-O. For the second time in the five year history of the program, the team qualified for the NAQT Community College Championship Tournament, to be held on February 24-25 at Gulf Coast State C...
AARP income tax assistance program offered The AARP Tax Filing Assistance Program will have trained volunteers available from 12:15 to 4 p.m. every Wednesday and Friday through April 13th in the Orange Public Library. Anyone seeking assistance should bring the following: all W-2 and 1099 forms, including Social Security benefits and statements; records of Capital gains and losses; receipts of medical expenses, taxes paid, interest paid, contributions, casualty and theft losses, job expenses, sales tax receipts for major...
I ran into Trey Smith over at Daley’s Hunt N Fish Friday morning and he wasn’t overly excited at the time about the weather forecast for the following day. He and his partner, Hunter Gothia, were headed to Rayburn to fish a Bass Champs event and a massive weather cell was on the same course. Trey later said that Saturday was as bad as predicted.“We not only got rain and lightning, but a big wind to go along with it all day long!”Unable to put a productive pattern together obviously made the rain feel even colder and the win...
The Stark Museum of Art, 712 Green Avenue in Orange, invites families to Musical Family Day from 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 25. Attendance is free and all ages are welcome. Musical Family Day will celebrate the intersection between music and the visual arts. Children can participate in a scavenger hunt for musical instruments in the paintings on display in the galleries to win a prize. Visitors will have the opportunity to create their own unique musical instrument and to play music. Families can join in a game...
Divorces issued by the office of Vickie Edgerly, Orange County District Clerk for the week Dec. 24, 2011 to Feb. 3, 2012 Jacqueline D. Martin and Cicero Martin Jr. David D. Smith and Veronica Smith Crystale Lynn Falasco and Richard Kent Falasco Curtis Robin and Annie Robin Monica Marie Sprague and William Harold Sprague Jr. Brittany Dorsey and Dustin Kenneth Gunstream William Jones Jr. and Brandy Jones Linda Eilene Credeur and Gerald David Credeur Jessica Anita Hernandez and Dolores Alberto Hernandez Brenda Ann Guidry and...
SKEETER INVASION – TIME TO FIGHT BACK Six months ago we predicted it would be a mild winter but we are even surprised that it has been so mild, not only here but all over the country. The rain we’ve gotten lately is appreciated but would have been a lot more helpful last spring and summer. Many of our great trees might have been saved. *****I don’t recall that mosquitoes have ever been so bad in February. It’s really time to do something about it. We were raised with “Skeeters” and learned to live with them, small price...
Allison Vandagriff, a junior at Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School excels when it comes to writing essays. Each year the Veterans of Foreign Wars hosts their annual Voice of Democracy Audio/Essay Scholarship Competition on local, district, state and national levels. Allison was the Orange VFW Post 2775 first place winner and advanced to the District 2 level where she placed first. She was automatically advanced to the State level where she placed second. Her scholarships for this year amount to $300, $300 and $4,500....
It’s not often a freshman or sophomore college student has the opportunity to help certified teachers with an assignment that in turn helps their gifted and talented students in their school district. Recently, students majoring in education at Lamar State College–Orange completed critical thinking projects which were recycled by participants in the Gifted and Talented (GT) Institute. The Education Division at LSC-O is in partnership with local school districts to prepare their teachers to meet the needs of gifted and tal...
The Orangefield TAFE (Texas Association of Future Educators) attended the state convention in San Antonio last week. Sixteen students and three sponsors attended the convention. Several of the students competed at state level. Kelsey Sheppard created and presented a “count on character” storybook. Elizabeth Newell competed in the speech competition; Robert Erhlich, Jourdyn May and Ashley Kibodeaux competed in the ELF (Educational Fundamentals) test. Rachael Hunnicutt received a red ribbon on her “project visualize” project...
Chris Slaughter of Bridge City said he can’t put into words what Pastor J.W. Harrell of Bridge City United Pentecostal Church on Roundbunch Road, his wife and two children, have meant the world to him and his family. “He has been much more than a man standing behind a pulpit on Sundays. He gives full definition to a word like ‘Pastor’ and a comment like ‘friend of the community,’” Slaughter wrote in a nomination letter to the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year for 2010. Two years later that nomination ha...
When Texas succeeded from the Union and the Civil War came to Orange three military companies were established. They were the Orange Light Guard, The Orange Greys, and Hannah’s Company. There was also the Orange County Coast Guard and several companies of state troops. There was never an established system of fortifications. There was a Confederate encampment up the Sabine River at Niblett’s Bluff. The Sabine River forks near West Bluff. The main channel goes west and the old river fork goes eastward. Niblett’s Bluff is on th...
Officers from the Orange Police Department responded to the following calls between Feb. 21, and the morning of Feb. 22: Fraud, illegal use of credit cards, 2500 IH-10 Fraud, illegal use of credit cards, 2415 McKee Theft, other, 1939 Greenbriar Forgery or checks, 516 Burton Mental subject, 5700 Velma Jeter Trespassing, private property, 418 Knox Process service, warrant, 606 13th St....
Catherine Bizzell Barron, 87, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 2:40 am in Keller, TX. Catherine was born in Frankston, TX. Sept. 20, 1924. Catherine was the former Deputy County Clerk for Orange County. Her family was her world and her greatest enjoyments were life’s simple pleasures. A graveside service will be held Thursday, Feb. 23 at 1:00 pm at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Bridge City. She was preceded in death by her parents Frank and Bertha (Springer) Bizzell, husband Charley, brother Drew, sister Carol (Dottie) C...
Funeral services for Mr. Michael Ray Reeves will be at 2:00 p.m., on Friday, Feb. 24, in Cherry Grove Baptist Church, Mittie, LA, with the Rev. Ron Butler officiating. Interment will follow in Cherry Grove Cemetery, under the direction of Rush Funeral Home, Oakdale. Mr. Reeves, 54, of Houston, entered eternal rest on Sunday, Feb. 19, in The Methodist Hospital, Houston. Michael was known to his friends in Texas as Boudreaux and he was owner of the Boudreaux Dart Company. Those left to mourn his loss and cherish his memory incl...
Patsy Jorgensen, 77, of Nederland, passed away Feb. 19, at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont. She was born in Port Arthur, on April 7, 1934, to the late Lynch and Ophelia Louvier Thomas. Patsy was a homemaker, but for more than 20 years, she was a faithful volunteer, past Board Member, and part of the Tuesday crew at the Hospitality Center in Port Arthur, where she prepared the meals, served them, and then cleaned the Center afterwards. She was the co-founder of Saltwater Anglers League of Texas (SALT) and a member of St. Charles...
I’m dating myself, but remember when you were in grade school and the class was electing officers? Like most youngsters back then, if your name was in nomination, you probably always voted for your opponent. That’s the way it was done back in the days before Super PACs and the nine gods on the Supreme Court. Today’s elections don’t cover issues as much as they do the trash in a candidate’s life. He’s a Fascist; he’s a communist; he’s an adulterer; he’s too religious; he’s a bigot; he’s a racist; and much, much worse. Obv...
Sitting at the kitchen table with a glass of Paul Masson brandy and a Black and Mild cigar Bobby Brown, 75, looked back at nights of playing clubs all over the South. “I used to drink a lot of gin. I had to quit drinking that gin cause it would go to your head.” He said he couldn’t really smoke anymore because of his lungs, but he liked to taste it. “If I inhale this thing,” he said, “It would look like my chest is going to blow up. I can’t inhale it.“ Brown said he used to take two fifths of liquor to the bandstand to pl...
The Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation congratulates the students of Orangefield High School that participated in the Miriam Lutcher Stark Contest in Reading and Declamation. On Thursday, Feb. 16, students took part in the local level contest at the Orangefield Elementary campus. In declamation, Haley Permenter took first place with Declaration of Conscience by Margaret Chase Smith, and in interpretive reading, Kirsten Wofford won first place with her interpretation of Katherine Mansfield's The Singing Lesson. Second...
Thursday, March 8, at 6:00 pm, closing ceremonies for Upward Basketball will be held at First Baptist Church of Orange. Tony Wolf, a comedian and musician, will provide entertainment at the ceremony. Upward Basketball participants will be recognized, along with the coaches and helpers for this season. Jason Fuller, student minister at First Baptist, has been the basketball commissioners for the league. The church is located at 602 W. Green Avenue....
The Pinehurst Police Department responded to the following calls between Feb. 1, and Feb. 17: Wednesday, Feb. 1, Officer M. Dempsey was dispatched to the Orange County Parole Office located at 851 Dal Sasso Drive in reference to serving a parole warrant. Eldon W. Montgomery, a 37 year old white male was arrested for an outstanding parole warrant. He was transported to the Orange County Jail. Thursday, Feb. 2, Officer M. Dempsey was dispatched to the Orange County Parole Office located at 851 Dal Sasso Drive in reference to...
