Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Sorted by date Results 1 - 12 of 12
West Orange – Cove CISD recognized outstanding teachers during a recognition dinner at the WO-C Educational Service Center during the last week of school. Individual campus principals recognized their honorees. Teachers of the Year are Veronica Block, North Early Learning Center; Christi Harris, WO-S Elementary; Darcus Cook, WO-S Middle School; and Christopher Sams, WO-S High School. Each campus honoree was selected by their respective campus staff members. Sams, a WO-S H...
The board and volunteers of the Friends of the Orange Depot will hold their next meeting on Thursday, June 29, at 5PM, refreshments, 5:30PM meeting, at Grace Lutheran Church. News will be shared about the museum planning, fundraising and museum rentals. Anyone interested in the project is welcome to come....
Photo: Jerry Jones, city manager of Bridge City, shows a sign advertising LUKE, an app designed to let citizens connect quickly with and send photos to the city regarding non-emergency problems such as potholes, streetlights, etc. For The Record Luke? Luke what? Luke Skywalker? What are these “Luke” signs popping up all around Bridge City trying to tell us? Well, like Luke Skywalker when he popped up on movie screens 40 years ago in the original “Star Wars,” this Luke is pret...
The Kiwanis Club of Orange recently presented two $1,000 scholarships to students from local high schools. The QB Culpepper Leadership Award was given to Bailey Noah, a graduate of Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School. Bailey will study telecommunications at Texas A & M University. Jared Dupree, a West Orange-Stark graduate, received the Ben Culpepper Leadership Award. He will attend the University of Texas-Austin, where he plans to study health and society. The Leadership...
For The Record It’s full speed ahead for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office 22nd annual Cops N Kids Picnic Friday at Claiborne West Park. Because of wet grounds after last weekend’s heavy rains, the event has been moved from its usual spot in the park to an area around the large pavilion. The picnic begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 2 p.m. Besides the Sheriff’s Office, other law enforcement agencies expected to participate are the Orange Police Department, Orange County constables...
Photo: Foreign exchange student Eliska Suchardova, second from left, enjoys some down time with her host family from Bridge City, Kim Cooper, Michaela Cooper, Waverlee Cooper and James Cooper. For The Record Eliska Suchardova says she’ll miss crawfish and barbecued crabs when she returns home later this month to the Czech Republic. But not as much as she’ll miss the many folks she met while spending her junior year as an international exchange student at Bridge City High Schoo...
For The Record Marsi Patronella was knee-high in concerns about floodwater in her neighborhood when she tracked down the floating Orange County Commissioners’ Court Tuesday afternoon in Bridge City. “In Forest Heights, it continues to flood,” Patronella said, referring to the unincorporated community halfway between Little Cypress and Deweyville in northeast Orange County. “We’ve had houses that have flooded repeatedly over the past year, and we just don’t know what’s goin...
Photo: Hunter Uzzle get’s unclose and personal with a red caught on a top water plug. Capt. Uzzle For the Record Lure size is key during the heat of summer... 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 clari...
IT’S NOT ENOUGH ALREADY The rains we needed badly came in bunches. Hopefully we are in for a few days of dry, sunny weather that will help our gardens. Let me tell you what’s coming next weekend, it’s the “Skeeters.” If you are planning outdoor activities at your place in the next few weeks, you‘d best call Donna at Pestco. They will send Tony out to spray and guarantee that you will have several weeks of mosquito free days. *****I’ve really fallen behind and not very organized. With a deadline just a few hours away I’d best...
The last school day of the year for Little Cypress-Mauriceville teachers was also a day to recognize those who have reached service milestones and those who have been selected by their peers and supervisors as outstanding in their service to the children of LCM and the community. Auxiliary Employees of the Year were Elizabeth White – Child Nutrition, Al Cantu – Maintenance and Barbara Johnson – Transportation. Paraprofessionals of the year were Carolyn Bickham – Maurice...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School’s “Team Force” unified track team consisting of partner athletes Cody Janice and MacCoy Head, and Special Olympics athletes Shawn Schoolcraft and Joey Guin participated in the first ever Special Olympics state summer games division for Unified Champion Schools at UT-Arlington. The LCM team ran the 100 m dash, 200 m dash, unified relay, and threw the javelin. Their cumulative score placed them Third at State and they were awarded bronz...
The Record A legendary R&B artist will be appearing in concert this fall in Southeast Texas. Smokey Robinson, 77, will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 28, inside the Beaumont Civic Center in downtown Beaumont. Tickets for the event, billed as “An Evening with Smokey Robinson,” are $45 - $125 each and go on sale at 10 a.m., Friday, June 9, at all Ticketmaster outlets, including the Beaumont Civic Center box office. Robinson, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, began his music car...
