Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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I guess it’s lucky that I’m not an alumnus of Lamar University, because whatever annual donation I give to my alma mater (McNeese University) would be stopped cold until the new athletic director (Marco Born) turns around and goes back where he came from (Louisiana Tech). Born is like the new sheriff in town who walks down the middle of the street with both guns a-blazing hollering “Thar’s a new sheriff in town and I’m gonna change things so that we’re better than most places around here.” Born’s bags were still unpacked...
Virtually everyone of the visiting Bassmaster pros that I spoke with at last week’s Bassmaster Elite event had nothing but good things to say about the hospitality of the community while rating the Sabine River as a difficult, but fair venue on which to compete. At the same time, not one of them cared about ever visiting Orange in June again! The event was originally set for last spring, but was unexpectedly washed out virtually overnight and rescheduled.The fact that they were able to find an open date was good for O...
Safety is something that should ever be taken for granted. The Texas Department of Transportation is trying to keep the public safer with the ninth annual Orange Means Safety event held on June 8 at the Texas Travel Information Center on Interstate 10 in Orange. The emphasis was on safety and on having fun. Sarah Dupre, public information officer for TxDOT, said the event is the perfect opportunity to teach safety, particularly with children out of school and people going on s...
The Saturday for the 16th annual Art in the Park at Stark Park in Orange was a hot, but beautiful day until the rain came in the afternoon. Jay Trahan, director of the Orange Economic Development Corp., said attendance at the free, community wide event was around 2,000 instead of the anticipated 5,000 due to the weather. There were 320 vendors, some coming from Abbeville, Lake Charles and Oklahoma. Brandy Judice, Orange Convention and Visitors Bureau coordinator, said Art in...
BLESSED WITH A GOOD RAIN Well, thank you Lord, for sending us nearly two inches of rain last weekend. Boy was it welcomed. We had endured six weeks of drought and extreme heat. I watered every day trying to just keep our many plants alive. Some in pots go back over 20 years. We protected the beautiful flowering plants from the cold, three storms and the lack of rain. The yearly garden was also having a hard time getting going. The cucumbers, tomatoes and bell peppers are producing and the okra has finally, this week, started...
Carl Thibodeaux can rightly be called judge again. The former Orange County judge was appointed as a municipal court judge for the city of West Orange at their regular meeting Monday night. He officially and immediately resigned his city council seat as per city policy. Thibodeaux had less than a year to serve out his term. The city council will make recommendations for who will serve as his replacement. He said being called judge sounds familiar. "I enjoyed serving on the...
Schuyler Thibodaux, Bridge City baseball standout, isn't the only Cardinal named as a state all star. Joining him is recent graduate, Kassidy Wilbur, a Bridge City standout in softball. Wilbur said she discovered she made the Texas Girls Coach Association as an all star last Saturday. She found out she earned the honor after a team mate's father told her. "I was excited," she said. "I knew my coach (Kayla Gallardo) nominated me the last two years." Gallardo said over Wilbur's...
Cutline: Thelma Sterling, left, and husband Glenn were rescued from a fire at their Bridge City home early Monday by Sascha, their Doberman Pinscher. (RECORD Photo: Dave Rogers) Dave Rogers For The Record A family member rescued Bridge City retirees Glenn and Thelma Sterling from a house fire Monday morning – a four-legged family member. Sascha, the Sterlings’ Doberman Pinscher, woke the couple after a short-circuiting dishwasher touched off a kitchen fire and sent deadly smo...
The Burger King sign goes up on the new restaurant set to open June 25 on Strickland Drive in Orange. The store is owned by Houston Foods, which also owns Burger Kings in Vidor, Beaumont, Nederland and Port Arthur, and has announced another new store to come in the 7200 block of I-10 in Orange. (RECORD Photo: Dave Rogers)...
Dave Rogers For The Record Orange County Commissioners agreed Tuesday afternoon that the county should participate in a buyout program for flood-prone properties. They did not give specific details, because those have yet to be worked out by the government and Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission, which is coordinating the program. It was just the first step in the process, with SETRPC to fill in details later, but Emergency Management Coordinator Joel Ardoin explained there were three different programs for...
Dave Rogers For The Record The City of Orange is well on its way to being paid off by its insurers for Tropical Storm Harvey damage but more than $2.5 million in FEMA checks still haven’t arrived. A “Harvey Update” report delivered by City Accounting Manager Sherry Jackson to city council Tuesday showed about $5.2 million in Harvey damage identified so far. Of that about $200,000 was damage to city vehicles, mostly those run by the fire and police departments, and all but $10,000 in deductibles had been received from the c...
Dave Rogers For The Record Deputy John Badeaux can’t remember how many years he’s helped organize the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Cops N Kids Picnic. He just knows “I have adults bringing their kids now that attended Cops N Kids when they were kids. “They tell me, ‘I just want them to experience Cops N Kids like I did.’ It’s a great time.” The 23rd annual Cops N Kids Picnic is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at Claiborne West Park. Admission, rides, games and lunch a...
In the early morning of Sunday, June 10th, we lost our family matriarch, Claire Covington. Though she fought with courage, dignity and grace our Mom’s long battle with cancer ended. Her final days were spent with her husband of 65 years, our Dad, Don. He would not leave her side. Our mother loved life at every stage. She was born to Robert W. Fogal and Maurine (Mitchell) Fogal on September 7, 1935 in Beaumont, Texas. She grew up in a loving home with her parents, her twin b...
Cutline: Greg Hackney, right, said he had some big bites on some short runs to win the 2018 Bassmaster Elite Sabine River tournament, a four-day event in Orange that ended Sunday, June 10. Dave Rogers For The Record The City of Orange and the 25,000 or so who made it out to the Orange Boat Ramp last week were the big winners of the 2018 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Elite fishing tournament. - Officially, Greg Hackney of Gonzalez, Louisiana, was the big winner, taking home a...
Pictured Left to Right: B. J. Hanneman, Rani Dillow, Mayor David Rutledge, David Ess, Lori Ess, Eastynn Borg, Lucy Fields, Kirk Roccaforte, Candice Mulhollan, Braden Borg, K’Lynn Borg, Beverly Mixson, Kember Ess, and Tod Mixson. The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce held its second 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, David Ess was a...
