Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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“It’s already been a little different year on T-Bend,” said Jimmy Coleman, “but this white perch bite has really been a surprise.” The Shreveport native should know! Coleman has owned a trailer in the Red’s Point area on the south end of the lake since 1973 and has fished through every major change on the huge impoundment. “We’ve come full circle,” he was quick to point out.“For years there was no grass, then we were covered up with grass and now we’re back to no grass.” Through it all, Jimmy preferred to hustle bream and cra...
Dave Rogers For The Record Mauriceville’s Mike Defee is making the jump from college football to the NFL. The Big 12 referee known as “Muscle Ref,” “Beef Ref” and “Jacked Ref” because of his enormous biceps, is retiring from active officiating to take a position in the NFL front office. Defee, who has officiated every major bowl game and gained fame during the January 2017 College Football National Championship game, will coach current NFL officials, specifically focusing on the referee position, reports say. Walt Anderson...
Dave Rogers For The Record The Texas Department of Transportation is asking for public comment on a plan to replace two traffic lanes of MacArthur Drive with sidewalks on either side. The number to call is 409-898-5732 or email [email protected]@txdot.gov . The change is an $800,000 “pedestrian safety improvement project,” and it seems like it’s a done deal. The TxDOT news release that announced it Monday said it “is currently scheduled to go out for bids in late summer.” “Essentially, it’s just paint and sig...
THE VIRUS THAT CAME TO STAY Three months ago this week, April 21, the United States confirmed the nation’s first case of what was then called the “Novel” Coronavirus. A Washington State man, in his 30’s, had recently returned from Wuhan, China, the epic-center of an outbreak that had killed six people, was infected. What transpired since then has gone beyond what anyone could have imagined. The story is still growing and will be sometime in our future before it plays out. Now almost 2.5 million people worldwide have been in...
Photo: Camp Bailey with a great redfish that ate a Mirrolure She Pup. Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record We have all had the perfect conditions not pay dividends, everything seems to be right but the results just don’t show anything for the effort. This scenario plays itself out many times over during an angler’s career, especially in the summer. During extended periods when rain and runoff get scarce and the water clarity gets so good it borders on ridiculous many fishermen have a hard time catching fish. Upper coast anglers e...
Patty Nell Fontenot Thibodeaux, 90, of Bridge City, passed away on April 18, 2020, in Beaumont. Born in Opelousas, Louisiana, on October 29, 1929, she was the daughter of Dewey Leo Fontenot and Thelma (McCauley) Fontenot. Patty graduated from Sacred Heart Catholic High School in Ville Platte, Louisiana. She faithfully served God at St. Henry Catholic Church in Bridge City. Patty enjoyed crossword puzzles, needlepoint, and spending time with her family. She made beautiful placemats and Kleenex holders and was talented in many...
Dave Rogers For The Record It was hardly a shock when it happened. They couldn’t be fazed after 14 or 15 years of schooling filled to the brim with upheaval and challenges on top of challenges. When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott channeled Alice Cooper and announced last Friday that “School’s out … forever,” for the Class of 2020, the young men and women of Orange County did as they have learned during one natural disaster after another: They adapted. And their past proves, they will overcome. “It’s been a crazy past four years,” Kie...
Roderick and Brandy Robertson put on the appropriate Senior Night apparel. Unfortunately, the Robertsons didn’t get to wear their Senior Night T-shirts to son Nic’s West Orange-Stark baseball Senior Night celebration. It was canceled like everything else to do with school gatherings by COVID-19 social distancing restrictions. Nic will attend Lamar State College on an Ambassadors scholarship before moving to Lamar University to study mechanical engineering. The Robertsons have been fundraising for Project Safe Graduation to...
Sports junkies who are becoming tired of watching re-runs of past great sporting events, there’s good news for them. Starting tomorrow for three days there will be LIVE sports on ESPN, ABC and NFL Network if you consider the 2020 National Football League draft a live sporting event. It’s probably the closest live sports programming event we’ve had for the past couple of months and won’t have for at least a couple of more months. And if you’re a regular follower of the NFL draft, this virtual one will be much different...
