Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Many years ago I became acutely aware of the fact that the word “good” is relative and used bridge the broad divide between “bad” and “great”. “Good” is indeed encouraging, but it remains a word to be taken with a grain of salt………especially when it comes to fishing! In the case of Sabine Lake trout fishermen, even catching a few trout is considered to be “good”.Prior to Harvey’s arrival, however, the current catching would scarcely rate above the shadows of “bad”.The only complaint anglers ever had in Junes of the past w...
Jimmy “Richard” Bane, 78, of Orange, Texas, passed away on June 10, 2019, in Houston, Texas. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, June 15, 2019, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City. Officiating the service will be Deacon Steve Obernuefemann. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens Cemetery. A celebration of life will be held at the Bane’s home following the burial. Visitation will be prior to the service beginning at 10:00 a.m. Born in Poolv...
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce held its third annual Father of the Year Contest and received several nominations, all of which were for very deserving fathers. After careful consideration by the Father of the Year Committee, Cody Hogden was awarded the honor. Cody was presented his gifts at the Bridge City Chamber’s June Networking Coffee hosted by Gateway CDJR where Mayor David Rutledge read aloud the City of Bridge City’s official proclamation naming Hogden as 2019 Fat...
Margaret Ann (O’Dell) Ivy, 79, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, June 10th surrounded by her loving family. Visitation will be from 5-8 PM Wednesday June 12th at Winfree Baptist Church in Orange. Funeral services will held at 10:00 AM Thursday June 13th also at the church. Burial will follow at Evergreen Cemetery in Orange. Margaret was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma on Sept 8, 1939, the daughter of William David and Martha Emogene O’Dell. A loving mother and hom...
This has been a very strange first 10 days of June as far as the National Football League and Major League Baseball are concerned. Football franchises have just finished the Organized Team Activities (OTAs) and mandatory minicamps with the players and coaching staffs using the next six weeks to take well-deserved vacations with their families or friends. Major League Baseball is about 10 weeks old with teams making personnel moves within their respective 40-man rosters. The idea of signing holdouts just doesn’t happen this l...
Photo: The shaded area shows more than 1,600 acres in Orange County bordered by Texas 87, FM 1006 and Foreman road shows land that has been purchased by Chevron Phillips Chemical as the possible site for a two-unit Ethylene Plant, according to the county’s appraisal district website. The purple line shows the border between Bridge City and West Orange-Cove school districts while the orange lines are city limits. Dave Rogers For The Record The landmen for Chevron Phillips C...
Photo: West Orange-Cove officials Alicia Sigee, Jenny Morgan and Burnadine Edwards manned the Read & Roll Bus Tuesday at Orange Church of God. The “Mustang” bus was filled with books and hot meals for Orange school children. The Read & Roll program combines summer reading and meal programs. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record The logo-wrapped blue “Mustang Bus” is on the roll this summer. West Orange-Cove school officials are sending it on the road Mondays thr...
Photo: Aispen Lakey and Mattison Glende put another banana boat s’more on the barbie Tuesday during the Summer Youth Cooking Camp at the Orange County Convention and Expo Center. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record How many cooks are too many? The Orange County AgriLife Extension Office is turning out 60 of them this week during its Summer Youth Cooking Camp. “When you’re older and have your own family, you need to know how to cook,” Brady Landry said when as...
Photo: New Fire Chief David Roberts, left, his assistant Simmie Gibson III, municipal judge Carl Thibodeaux and city attorney Rex Peveto, all repeat their oaths of office to city secretary Theresa Van Meter at Monday night’s West Orange city council meeting. Dave Rogers For The Record The Mayor of West Orange has endorsed a new direction for his city’s volunteer fire department. Roy McDonald, mayor of the city since 1995, swore in a slate of four appointed city officials Mon...
Pictured are front row left to right: Judge Rodney Price, former County Commissioner Marcelle Adams, Judge Buddy Hahn, Judge Carl Thibodeaux, Juliet Smith, Jack Smith, Susan Kazmar, Joe Kazmar, Darrell Segura & Dr. Tommy Johnson; Second row left to right: County Commissioner John Gothia, John Roy Frederick, Dr. Nina Leifeste, Ledena Howard, Phyllis Dunn, Roy Dunn, Chris Smith, David Smith, Judge Joy Dubose-Simonton, Jude Turley and Rex Peveto; Back row left to right: Steve...
Photo: The Orangefield High School Class of 1969 held their 50th year class reunion over the weekend. Pictured left to right front: Jimmie Lea Stephenson Simmons, Linda Martin Owens, Helen Mott Holmes, Norma Parker Martin and Sylvia Rogers Bickham; back row l-r; Wallace Brister, Sammy Owens, Pam Scales Honeycutt, Harry Harrington and Larry Gray. (Not pictured, but in attendance on Saturday, Jim Sorter) RECORD PHOTO: Penny LeLeux Penny LeLeux For The Record Members of the Orang...
WHAT A WEEK IT WAS The Record’s 60th Anniversary Issue went off without a hitch. A great big thanks to all the advertisers and friends who participated by running ads. The rains came, boy did it, and our home delivery was a washout. We increased our circulation in stores to 5,000 and made our home delivery Thursday morning. By Friday, all locations were out of papers. The Wednesday Lunch Bunch hosted our “Person of the Year” and Roy’s 85th birthday celebration. Despite the rain a full house showed up. Both Jack Smith and Roy...
