Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Texas AgriLife Extension Office will be offering a Private Pesticide Applicator’s license training and testing on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at 3 p.m. at Jb's Bar-b-que on Old Hwy 90 in Orange. Texas AgriLife Extension will provide the training and The Texas Department of Agriculture will administer the test. Anyone interested in participating in the course must obtain the manual and pay a registration fee of $25 by April 1, 2008. Registration fee includes manual, study material and meal. Make checks payable to Orange County A...
Shirley A. Cormier, 58, of Groves passed away on Monday, Feb. 25, 2008 at her home with her family at her side. Funeral services will be at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28 at the United Pentecostal Church of Bridge City with Rev. J. W. Harrell, officiating. Entombment will follow in Oak Bluff Memorial Park under the direction of Clayton Thompson. Visitation will be on Wednesday, Feb. 27, from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Clayton Thompson Funeral Home in Groves. She was born in Lafayette,...
The Planning and Visioning Committee that has examined Little Cypress-Mauriceville’s facilities for the past four months will make a recommendation to the Board of Trustees on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 5:30 p.m. in the board room of the LCM Administration Building. Sixty community members, recruited from both the Mauriceville and Little Cypress communities, have participated in the process, spending approximately forty volunteer hours each considering the needs of each campus, a...
LC-M plays in the Brenham Tournament at Fireman's Park in Brenham at the following places and times: Fireman's Park Thursday 9:30 a.m. LCM vs Manor 12:00 noon Lehman vs LCM Fireman's Park Friday 2:30 p.m. LCM vs Santa Fe 7:30 p.m. Brenham vs LCM All Saturday games will be played at Fireman's Park in Brenham...
Mauriceville Middle School walked away with second place at the recent 22 4-A Middle School League Academic and Literary Meet. Little Cypress Junior High took third place in the same contest....
For nearly 110 years, a large marble marker, carved with names of local officials, stood to commemorate the 1898 Orange County Courthouse. Now, the shattered remains are in the county’s maintenance department after being hit three times in the courthouse parking lot. “How can you replace it? It’s irreplaceable,” said local historian, Dr. Howard C. Williams. Names on the marker included Civil War veterans, including the county judge, who had been a member of the famous Terry’s...
Sharing daily life with a teenager from another country and culture is a rich and rewarding experience, and it's a wonderful way to bring more understanding into the world. If you've ever thought about welcoming an exchange student into your home and family, now's the time to learn more. AFS, the leading international high school student exchange program, needs families in our community to host high school students for an academic year or six months. Students arrive in August. All kinds of families can host--two-parent...
Eric Blem, Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School junior, has received a scholarship to attend the Honeywell Scholars at Presidential Classroom 2008, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program in Washington D.C., March 2-8. The Presidential Classroom’s mission is to provide the highest quality civic education programs for outstanding high school students, using Washington, D.C. as a classroom. Students work with their peers on a group project throughout the week, a...
Both Little Cypress Junior High and Mauriceville Middle School Student Councils received the Sweepstakes Award at the District 17 Texas Association of Student Councils Convention on Tuesday, February 27. This award is given to those schools who receive “Outstanding” ratings for Outstanding Student Council: Pride and Patriotism; Drug, Alcohol, Safety and Health; Energy and Environment; and Community Service. Mauriceville Middle School also received recognition for Scrapbook. Four out of six Student Council District 17 off...
The next eight months will be a busy time for the men's basketball program at Lamar State College-Port Arthur. During that time, the college will hire a new head basketball coach and an assistant. The Seahawks' next season will be played in a new conference. Lamar State is moving from the Division III Metro Athletic Conference, where they played the last two seasons, to Division I - Region XIV. The move to Division I also means that for the first time in the program's history, the coaching staff will have scholarships...
Head Start and prekindergarten students at North Early Learning Center are spending the week “Celebrating Cultural Diversity” with special daily presentations and performances observing the traditions of various cultures. This week, students are learning about the Hispanic, African-American, Italian, Asian, and Native American cultures through special programs which include song, dance, singing, powerpoint presentations, and a multi-cultural exhibit. Performances are bei...
Joe Martin and Natasha Franks are two of the twenty-four Little Cypress-Mauriceville staff members who took part in a workshop led by Patsy Lanclos, one of the most well-known trainers in digital literacy. She introduced Web 2.0 Tools to the group and gave hands-on instruction on how these can be used in the classroom to extend the resources normally available to students and their teachers. Ms. Lanclos has conducted an extended class for LCM principals using the Web2.0...
Faith United Methodist Church is on a journey—a journey to make a difference for Jesus Christ. That journey began a little over two years ago when two local United Methodist Churches merged, giving birth to the new church. Meeting at 2906 Western Avenue, the people of Faith UMC felt God leading them to provide Methodism to an area in the community where no United Methodist Church existed. So they took a giant leap of faith and purchased thirty-four acres of property on...
