Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The Texas Department of Transportation kicks off its 7th annual statewide Click It or Ticket campaign with a stern reminder to Texas motorists: if you haven’t gotten into the habit of buckling up, it can cost you a fine of up to $200. Thousands of state troopers, police officers and sheriff’s deputies will be on Texas streets and highways between May 19 and June 1, including the Memorial Day holiday week-end, issuing citations to drivers who aren’t buckled up and whose child...
Congressman Brady and Port of Orange Break Ground on Intermodal Rail Project U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady (R-The Woodlands) and Port of Orange Director Gene Bouillion along with local leaders participated in a ground breaking ceremony, at 11:00 a.m., Friday, May 23 at the Port of Orange. Brady drove a gold colored spike into the railroad track signifying the start of a new intermodal rail project to help rehabilitate the freight railroad line into the Port of Orange. Congressm...
Green Avenue in Orange was once lined with sprawling mansions of different architectural designs. But in the timeframe of the 1890s and early 1900s, one of the mansions was unique compared to the Victorian, Queen Anne, and Beaux Arts designs. The F.A. Farwell house at Green and Eighth, to the immediate east of First Presbyterian Church, was a brown stucco mansion built in the Spanish Mission style with furnishings of the Arts and Crafts Revival, which was avant garde at the...