Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Beginning Monday, March 23rd, West Orange-Cove CISD Child Nutrition Services will be providing meals to Children 18 years of age and under regardless of income and enrollment in the district. Meal service will be a grab and go drive through at North Early Learning Center and West Orange-Stark High School: Monday - Friday, Breakfast and Lunch may both be picked up between the hours of 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Children must be present to receive a meal, you can not receive a meal for a child that is not present....
KAZ’S KORNER Just about every Houston Texans’ fan, beat writer and even the players were flabbergasted when the news that three-time All-Pro wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins had been traded to the Arizona Cardinals last week. The big question lingering was WHY??? Why did Head Coach and General Manager Bill O’Brien make such a deal that seemed like a bad one from the get-go? Hopkins was perhaps the most consistently productive player the Texans’ franchise has ever known. And he was very popular with his teammates, media, fans an...
March 23, 2020 Below are reminders and updates for the week of March 23, 2020. FEP Plan Type of Assignment Students Using Technology Online lessons will begin on March 25, 2020 through Google Classroom. Students Not Using Technology Beginning Wednesday-Friday, March 25-27, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. all three OISD campuses will have assignment pickup locations. (please see locations below) Pre-Kindergarten - 5th Grade: Pickup location- Elementary Cafeteria- Assignments will be picked up at the eastside entrance near...
The March 16th release by the SRA was both inevitable and necessary depending on how bullet proof you may feel you are in regards to the spread of the coronavirus. In a nut shell, gatherings of fifty or more are now prohibited and that pretty well eliminates any major tournaments in the near future As of today, boat launches are still open to recreational anglers, but that could change as well depending on the spread of the virus.The Louisiana Annual Oilman’s event was canceled last weekend, as was the Texas Team Trail e...
William Whitney Mello, known as Bill or Mister Bill throughout Orange, 66, lifetime resident of Orange, who succumbed to one of the most aggressive, deadly forms of brain cancer, glioblastoma multiform died March 20, 2020, at home surrounded by his loving family. Despite Bill’s prognosis, his stubbornness allowed him to fight GBM for 14 months. Bill’s love for life and his will to live is why he survived as long as he did. Born in Orange, Texas, on January 12, 1954, he was...
Photo: Michael White, emergency management coordinator for Jefferson County, is backed by county judges (including Orange County's John Gothia, right) and others as he explains the procedures in place at the drive-through COVID-19 testing site at Jack Brooks Regional Airport Monday afternoon. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record The first public drive-through COVID-19 testing center in Southeast Texas opened Tuesday morning on the circle drive in front of the...
GOVERNORS TAKE LEADERSHIP ROLES The real heroes during this crisis, besides the health care givers, are the nation’s governors. They stepped up and rescued a major problem from the federal government that was on standstill. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, New York Gov. Andrew Coumo, California Gov. Gavin Newson and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee picked up the ball and ran with it as soon as they realized they couldn’t depend on our national leadership to manage the Coronavirus crisis. If not for the states governors moving the ball for...
Photo: A Bridge City parent carries student meals back to her car after picking up the Grab and Go meals at Bridge City High School Tuesday morning. Dave Rogers For The Record The COVID-19 pandemic means public schools around the country are reaching their students’ minds by new means. But there is one long-standing connection that hasn’t been broken. Lunch ladies. They are still serving up school meals in Orange County. The delivery methods are a bit different, though. Stu...
Photo: Redfish make it easy to practice “social distancing” right now. Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record Just about any Texas fisherman who ever wet a line knows that the spring is full of many things, most of which fall into the category of uncertainty and unpredictability. The all time #1 villain is the weather man and his friend the marine forecast, aka “that #$%@ wind”! For plenty of us who take advantage of every season the waders that were used during duck hunts have be...
Photo: Students at West Orange-Cove schools pick up their free school breakfasts and lunch from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the North Early Learning Center and West Orange-Stark High School. Dave Rogers For The Record The COVID-19 pandemic means public schools around the country are reaching their students’ minds by new means. But there is one long-standing connection that hasn’t been broken. Lunch ladies. They are still serving up school meals in Orange County. The del...
Dave Rogers For The Record Public meetings have a new look during the current public health emergency. Government orders that have basically done away with public gatherings in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19, limit any meeting to 10 people or less. Orange County held its Commissioners’ Court meeting Monday with a limit of 10 people in a room that normally seats about 60. Bridge City Independent School District’s board meeting that night was also limited to 10 people in its boardroom, but it was open to the pub...
