Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan visits with Dr. Tom Johnson, Lamar State College Orange president, during Johnson's visit to the Capitol in Austin, where he reported last week on the school's progress and plans for the future to the Senate Finance Committee. Tuesday, Johnson had a virtual meeting with the Texas House Appropriations Committee, a routine happening for all state-funded schools. It hasn't yet reached Cloud Nine but Dr. Tom Johnson definitely likes the path Lamar...
Patty Collins is running for a second term on the Bridge City school board but hardly considers herself a politician. She's just continuing a career of service to education: Her day job is Executive Director of College Affairs for Lamar State College Orange. "The fringe of politics. That's what I call the school board," she said. "I never really had a desire to be in politics, but I love serving our district." BCISD stakeholders will go to the polls May 1 to decide two races....
Cheers mingled with tears at last week's scaled-down Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards luncheon that was topped by Michelle Tubbleville being named Citizen of the Year. Tubbleville, the Special Projects Coordinator for the County of Orange, was honored for the 24/7 way she brings together people with needs caused by natural disasters with volunteers or government programs to meet those needs. But she had to share the spotlight with the bittersweet memories...
GOOD NEWS ON ECONOMIC FRONT Manufacturing in the U.S. hit a three-year high last month. A broad rally Monday sent the Dow Jones Industrial average more than 600 points higher and gave the S&P 500, its best day in nine months. Strong consumer demand for goods, increasing business investment, a roaring housing market and our global economic growth by the Biden Administration supporting our U.S. manufacturing, will benefit our total recovery. If passed by the Senate, the $1.9...
Hello, my name is Jay Odom. My wife and I, Mary Touchstone Odom and I are both 1973 graduates of West Orange High School. Careers moved both of us out of the area after graduating. After retirement I moved to Rayburn Country in Brookeland, TX and shortly afterwards moved back 'home'. I want to be involved in our community and being retired, I certainly have the time to put into serving you on the West Orange City Council as Alderman. In the past I served as the Deeds and...
Committed Leadership to Our Community and Dedicated to Progress My name is Terri Gauthier. Many of you may already know me as I have served our city on the City Council since 2015. I am running for re- election for my fourth two-year term as Bridge City Councilmember - Place 5 in the upcoming May 1st election. For the citizens I may not have met yet, I am a lifetime resident here in Bridge City. My husband David and I have been married 42 years and have two children, Aaron &...
To Citizens of the City West Orange, Texas My name is Randy Branch and I live in and am a homeowner in West Orange. I am running for the office of Mayor this year in the election that will be held on May1st. I write this short auto biography to give the people of West Orange an idea of who I am since they will be voting this year on electing a new Mayor. I grew up in Little Cypress, graduated from Little Cypress High School in 1968 and went to Blinn Jr. College. I married the...
Friday was a successful day for Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School Tennis. Students brought home 3 trophies from the Woodville Sergio Ramos Invitational. Jacob Miller and Logan Gaddis won the Boys B consolation bracket. Lizzy De La Fuente & Dakota Posey got Second in the Mixed A bracket and Evan Barborek and Kaitlyn Ewing won the Mixed B consolation. According to Tennis Coach Brett Nicholson, "Several other LCM teams battled in the semi-final matches throughout the day,...
True trophy trout, like this one Carlin Leavelle caught, pushing 10 pounds and 30 inches long are what saltwater fisherman dream about. You ever wonder what a 64 pack of Crayola crayons, 31 flavors of ice cream at Baskin Robbins, or bags of assorted candy have in common? The answer is they offer something for everyone because we all don't have the same taste. If everyone did things exactly like everyone else then life would be ridiculously boring and mundane. It's choices and...
To no one’s surprise, when the final gun sounded and ended a 4-12 season for the Houston Texans, it would be the last game J.J. Watt would play in a Texans uniform. The 10-year Superstar felt he had some good productive years left in the tank at age 32, but he wanted a Super Bowl ring. And playing for a team that hadn’t even gotten out of the Division Round of the playoffs, it wouldn’t happen for Watt in Houston. So, before a new general manager and head coach were hired...
I have seen enough pictures of dead fish over the past couple of days to last me a lifetime.We lost some fish in the immediate area, but nothing compared to the devastation along the lower coast. The majority of the fish in the pictures and videos I have seen were shad, mullet, sand trout and lady fish, but a staggering number of game fish were frozen as well. In the Sabine Lake and Galveston areas, redfish and drum took a significantly bigger hit than the trout. We will...
LSCO President Meets with Speaker Phelan and TX Senate Finance Committee, Asks for Funding for New Industrial Technology Academy, Hurricane-Related Improvements, and a New Academic Building President Thomas Johnson testified before a full Texas Senate Finance Committee last week, illustrating the resilience of Lamar State College Orange (LSCO) to maintain enrollment and student success during the pandemic and multiple hurricanes and requesting funds to develop an Industrial...
The Lloyd Grubbs American Legion Post #49 located at 108 Green Ave. in Orange will hold nomination for Officers on Saturday, March 12, 2021 at 2 pm. Election for Officers will be on Saturday, April 10th at 2 pm and Installation of Officers will be on Saturday, May 8th at 2 pm. The American Legion Post #49 hold their monthly meetings the 2nd Saturday at 2 pm each month....
The Orange County Sheriff's Office and Pct. 4 Constable Matt Ortego were recognized by VFW Post 2775 for their work in the Orange County community. District 2 Commander Kevin Bost and Post Chair Robert LaFleur presented the certificates of appreciation and a plaque to Sheriff Mooney. Sheriff Mooney, Constable Ortego and Deputy Bost received certificates for their continued work in the community. Sheriff Mooney also accepted two certificates of appreciation on behalf of Deputy...
The West Orange-Stark Baseball Program hosts the annual Certa-Bearden Classic baseball tournament March 4 – 6, 2021, at WOS High School Campus – Ronnie Anderson Field. The annual classic welcomes six baseball teams, families, and friends into the Orange community for three days of baseball. "Bringing these tournaments to Orange helps our community's economy. These teams bring families and friends into town that eat at our restaurants, fill their gas tanks, and shop. Let's sho...
As Texas recovers from the destructive storms last week, the legislature is back at work and focused on finding answers to what happened last week. This week we also resumed work on the budget in the Senate Finance Committee. We heard from Article III agencies, including TEA and all of our institutes of higher education. To finish the week, we will hear from Article II agencies, including Health and Human Services Commission and the Department of State Health Services. Here...
The Lady Bears traveled to Silsbee for their match against the Lady Tigers on Tuesday night, and brought home their third win in five days. The score remained 0-0 for the majority of the first half even though the Bears maintained great field position on the Tiger’s half of the pitch. Annabelle Fisher scored on a penalty kick late in the first to bring the score to 1-0 going into half. The Lady Bears buckled down and went to work in the second half by putting four goals on the board. Semma’ Alhatri started the second hal...
