Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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SATURDAY APRIL 15th Games, Handcrafts, Door Prizes start at 11:00 AM Easter Egg Hunt to follow All this FUN for three different age groups up to age 12 Sandwiches, chips, cookies, and punch Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 945 W. Roundbunch Rd., Bridge City...
KAZ’S KORNER National Football League owners are meeting this week in Scottsdale, Ariz. with the most important item on the agenda being the owners’ vote on the Oakland Raiders’ move to Las Vegas. Raiders’ owner Mark Davis has secured $750 million in public money and backing from Bank of America to build a stadium that could end up costing around $2 billion. Davis needed 24 votes from the 32 franchise owners and Monday afternoon got the necessary votes making Oakland the third NFL franchise to move in just over a year. T...
The Texas Department of Transportation has a major traffic detour scheduled March 31-April 3. All I-10 eastbound traffic will be detoured to the frontage road at the SH 87 exit and re-enter the interstate just past N 8th Street. Westbound I-10 traffic will be down to one lane during this time as well. In addition to the main lane closures, SH 87 at I-10 will be closed during this period. The closure will take place from 7 p.m. March 31 to 7 a.m. April 3. The closure is necessary for the construction of the new SH 87 overpass...
Both the Houston Boat Show and the Holder Fishing Show are much anticipated by both fresh and saltwater fishermen all across the state, but this past weekend bass fishing alone ruled as the Bassmaster Classic was front and center from downtown Houston to Lake Conroe Park. Larry Cole said, “We attended Friday and Sunday and never ran out of something to see or do.I thought the trip from the Park to downtown Houston was going to be a nightmare, but Hwy. 105 proved to be the most problematic.Not so much the traffic as the f...
Registration for the fall 2017 semester beginning Sept 5,2017 is now in progress. Registration forms may be picked up Tuesday and Thursdays between 8am and 2pm in the Pre-K office. Registration fee is $75 and the monthly fee is $180. If you have questions please call. The phone number for Pre-K is 735-3583 or Mrs. Nelly at 735-5153....
Cowboys, Flappers and Mesmerizing Music Family Fun All Day at Stark Cultural Venues, April 8 Bring the entire family to enjoy a full day of events at Stark Cultural Venues on Saturday, April 8. Saddle up for Western Family Day at the Stark Museum of Art. Join us for free fun with arts & crafts, face painting, living statues, music, gallery scavenger hunt, photo ops, a special performance by the LCM 5th grade choir and more. Next, head across the street to The W.H. Stark House...
The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Education Foundation, Inc. is hosting a Golf Tournament on April 24, at Sunset Grove Country Club. This is the not-for-profit organization’s spring fundraising event, and all proceeds will go toward its Grant-To-Educators program, which has funded 163 grants for a total of just under $197,000. Since 2004. Registration begins at 7:15 a.m. and the shot gun start is at 8 a.m. There will be trophies awarded first place, and all players’ names wil...
For the fourth year in a row, Little Cypress-Mauriceville won the District 22-4A Literary and Academic meet. LCM scored 608.99 points, while runnerup Bridge City totaled 383 points and third-place Orangefield 328. Hamshire-Fannett was fourth with 162, followed by Silsbee with 132 and West Orange-Stark with 26. Following is a list of the top three finishers in each event. Individual events Accounting – 1, Kayla Boyett, OF; 2, Katie Arabie, LCM; 3, Tori Bland, LCM. Calculator Applications – 1, Brandon Curl, BC; 2, Thomas King,...
The Orange Convention and Visitors Bureau will be hosting the 15th Annual Art in the Park. This event will be held on Saturday, April 8 from 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. at Stark Park in Orange, Texas. There will be no charge to attend this family friendly event. This event will include over 120 artists and crafters from Southeast Texas, Southwest Louisiana, and surrounding areas. Vendors will be on site serving a variety of food and drinks. There will be a children’s activity area on s...
Who wants their Easter pictures with real live bunnies? I will be doing a photo shoot on April 8th at Peveto's Feed Store, located at 17729 Hwy 62 S. Orange, TX. Pictures will be from 9 AM to 4 PM. If you are interested the prices are: for: 4x6 $10, 5x7 $15, and 8x10 $20. Prints will be available within 2 days. Text Stephanie at 409-553-1618...
KEEPIN’ ON ROLLING ON Another week rolls around and I’m still here so I guess I’ll do what I’ve been doing nearly 50 years; write another column. When I started this years ago I was just trying to make a small living for a large family. Now I do it because I’m afraid if I quit I’ll just fade away. I can read my column on Wednesday and know I’m still here and still fairly sane. My day started off good. My old buddy J.B. Arrington stopped by for a visit. He always has a story. This week it was a Lannie Claybar story. Lannie...
Photo by Tommy Mann Jr. Country music star Travis Tritt returns to Southwest Louisiana for a performance inside the Grand Event Center of the Golden Nugget Casino in Lake Charles, La., at 8 p.m., Saturday, April 1. Tickets start at $35 and can be purchased at Ticketmaster outlets. The Record Spring has commenced and that means festival season is underway and there is no bigger event in the region than the YMBL’s South Texas State Fair which begins this Thursday in Beaumont. B...
Feature pic: Edie Hunt hides Easter eggs during a Monday practice run for “Egg My Yard!” a Relay for Life fundraiser by Bridge Point Fellowship. For The News Here’s an answer for a problem you don’t think about often: Bridge Point for Life, a team of Bridge Point Fellowship members who participate in the annual Relay For Life walk-a-thon for the American Cancer Society, will hide your children’s Easter eggs for you. It’s called “Egg My Yard!” For a fee of $20, a child can awa...
For The Record If last week’s agenda item concerning deputy certificate pay seemed geared to restarting stalled contract negotiations between Orange County and its law enforcers, there was no pussy-footing around Tuesday. County Commissioners voted 3-2 to put a six-week deadline on continuing to pay deputies extra for job-related continuing education. “I believe smart people with good intentions can get anything done in 30 days. I’d like to use those 30 days to get a contr...
For The Record Orangefield Independent School District announced a record-high enrollment, recognized high achieving students and named teachers of the year at Monday’s school board meeting. Superintendent Stephen Patterson said the current count of 1,794 students was “an all-time high enrollment, to my knowledge.” Later in the meeting, school board members authorized him to begin negotiations for a district-wide facility study. That’s the first step in a process to ensure...
World War II sailors Eugene Goudeau of Orange, left, and Cedric Stout of Bridge City reunited over lunch Friday, March 24, at the Knights of Columbus Fish Fry in Bridge City. Both served aboard ships in the Pacific. Goudeau, 92, was on the gun crew for the Orange-built destroyer Dyson. Stout, 95, survived the sinking of the USS Utah at Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941 and spent the next five years as a mechanic aboard a string of ships. Photo by Dave Rogers...
Cutline: Orangefield senior Mack Patterson is heading off this summer to West Point after earning a Congressional appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. For The Record Mack Patterson has spent a decade working hard and achieving an outstanding goal, but the Orangefield senior doesn’t expect any favors when the next chapter of his life begins in July. “Everybody that goes there is a valedictorian, salutatorian or class president,” he said. “There’s no such thing as a big...
Photos by Cathy Riley Featured pic: The national champion Bridge City Strutters encircle their director Cathy Riley, who was named Outstanding Director by her peers at last week’s American Dance Drill Team Nationals. For The Record To call it a successful end of the competitive season would be putting it mildly for the Bridge City Strutters drill team. At last week’s American Dance Drill Team Nationals at the University of North Texas in Denton, the Strutters put on one cha...
For The Record The president of the fastest growing phenomenon besides Donald Trump’s run for higher office says it’s time his kids test themselves. “If these kids really and truly are going to move on from the high school world and pursue college and pro careers, they’re going to have to learn to fish rivers and tidal waters. “This is a good place to start,” said the leader of the Southeast Texas High School Fishing Association, president Clint Fountain. And so starts the...
