Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The National Weather Service in Lake Charles is expecting Tropical Storm Bill to make landfall this morning on the Texas coast. Our local impacts are as follows: Rain: 1-3 inches in southeast Texas in the heaviest rain bands. 1-2 inches in southwest, central, and south central Louisiana in the heaviest rain bands. This will cause some brief periods of street flooding. Tides: High tide this morning will have some water across roads near Sabine Pass, Cameron, Intracoastal City,...
Summer is right around the corner, and families will spend more time outdoors. Exposure to the sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays increases the risk of skin cancer, which is why proper sun protection is essential. In fact, the sun's UV rays are responsible for about 90 percent of nonmelanoma skin cancers and 86 percent of melanomas. "Exposure to UV radiation is directly linked to all three forms of skin cancer," said Perry Robins, MD, president of The Skin Cancer Foundation....
Fifty students are expected to participate in the Lamar Introduction to Engineering (L.I.T.E.) summer program, hosted by Lamar University’s College of Engineering July 20-24, 2015. The free one-week non-residential camp serves incoming seventh- and eighth-grade students who excel in mathematics and science. This program is partially funded by a grant through the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, ExxonMobil and BASF Corp. “The goal of L.I.T.E. is to introduce middle school students to STEM disciplines early in the...
Officers from the Orange Police Department responded to the following calls between June 16 and the morning of June 17: Burglary, 1402 Green Ave. Burglary, 3819 Meeks Dr. Traffic accident, Womack Rd. Larceny from vehicle, 1409 14th St. Aggravated assault, Camellia...
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is taking its Talk, Text, Crash campaign on the road this summer with events around the state to call attention to the epidemic of driver distractions that caused more than 100,000 traffic crashes in Texas last year. In 2014, the number of Texas crashes involving distracted driving was up almost 6 percent from the previous year. Joined by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, law enforcement, and community leaders, T...
The Lutcher Theater wraps up it’s 2014-15 Season, Wednesday, June 17, with a sold out MAMMA MIA! First playing the Lutcher Theater in 2011, MAMMA MIA! returns just in time for Lutcher patrons to celebrate the “ABBA-tastic” musical as it prepares to close on Broadway in September later this year. A musical about a mother, a daughter, three possible dads, and a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget, over 50 million people all around the world have fallen in love with the cha...
A stiff and consistent 15 mile per hour wind escalated to 25 to 30 miles per hour in less time than it took to re-tie a lure.It was a “Gotcha” move on Mother Nature’s part and I speculated aloud that the approaching tropical depression may have arrived sooner than predicted. “How can you tell,” snapped Brett Melancon while chasing his cap across the floor of the boat, “It rains and blows like hell at some point every day….doesn’t it?”Like everyone else that has caught trout with any consistency over the past month, we we...
The Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court Saint Cecilia, held its June Dinner to honor three local youths. Scholarships were awarded to graduating seniors, Morgan Worthy and Will Hughes. Recipients were selected on the basis of academic achievement, community and church service, and character. Morgan is a graduate of Orangefield High School, was 14th in her class, a member of the National Honor Society, and named All-Scholastic Athlete for maintaining her scholastic averag...
Joyce Irene Risinger, 77, of Orange, passed away on June 15, at her home. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, June 18, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Officiating will be the Rev. Barry Bradley of First Baptist Church in Orange. Burial will follow at Autumn Oaks Memorial Park in Orange. Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 17, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born in Shreveport, La., on Jan. 9, 1938, she was the daughter of George...
For the last 86 years descendents of David R. Wingate have met for an annual family reunion. This year the reunion was bittersweet. The day before the reunion was held on June 13, the patriarch of the family, Nicholas Matthew Wingate, better known as “Nick” died. Nick was known in the large family as “Uncle Nick”. He had reached 96 years of age, was slowing down a bit, but was still mentally active and always ready with a smile and a story. Nick began to have headach...
Kilgore: The World's Richest Acre Kilgore, Texas was located in the East Texas Oil Field, the richest in the state. There are many stories about people in that field. The Daisy Bradford No. 1 was the first high production well, located on the land of the widow Daisy Bradford. Lou Della Crim went to church one Sunday morning. While she was in church the well on her land came in and when she walked out of church, she was a millionaire. The jewel in the crown of the East Texas fi...
The ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp program was founded by Bernard Harris Jr., an astronaut and the first African American to walk in space. The program focuses on STEM-based curriculum to reinforce critical thinking skills and reduce summer learning loss. Harris will make a personal visit to the camp on June 19 to encourage students to continue their studies and enter the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields. The free residential camp...
The Life of Mr. Patrick L. “Hammer” Sillers, 56, of Orange will be celebrated during a Mass of Christian Burial Friday, June 19, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Therese Catholic Church. Rites of Christian burial will be held at the Houston National Cemetery in Houston. Visitation will be Saturday from 9:00 until 10:30 a.m. at the church. A Rosary will be prayed at 10:30 a.m. He died June 8, at The Southeast Texas Medical Center in Port Arthur. He resided in Orange most of his life, was...
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is one of only nine hospitals in the country selected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to be a regional treatment center for patients with Ebola or other highly infectious disease. UTMB will receive about $3.25 million over five years from the HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response to pay for training for staff, plan development and purchase of personal protective equipment, U...
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Orange County Extension Agent Fallon Foster will be offering the two day certification course followed by the exam on the third day. The Course will be held August 10-11, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm and testing Aug. 12, 9:00 am to noon, at the extension office. This course will prepare you for the National ANSI Certified Professional Food Manager exam. All courses are taught by instructors accredited by the Texas Department of State Health Services and have completed additional requirements from the Texas...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School Life Skills teacher Terrie Parker got a big surprise recently. Victoria Crossan, who just finished tenth grade, delivered a $50 check for LCM’s Team Force, which is the name under which the Life Skills students participate in Special Olympics events. According to Parker, “LCM Team Force would like to give a big shout out and thank you to Victoria Crossan. Crosson participated in the Graduate For Mas program through Taco Bell by ans...
Faith UMC will host a free Vacation Bible School July 6-10, from 9:00 am - noon. The church will be accepting registrations through June 26. VBS is open to all children pre-k through 5th grade. The church is located at 8601 MLK Dr., Orange....
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles has seen Tropical Storm Bill make landfall this morning on the Texas coast near Matagorda Island. Bill will continue to weaken as it moves inland tonight. Our local impacts are as follows: Rain: 1-2 inches in southeast Texas in the heaviest rain bands. Less than one inch in southwest, central, and south central Louisiana in the heaviest rain bands. This will cause some brief periods of street flooding. Tides: High tide tonight after midnight into Wednesday morning will bring some...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD would like to know how parents in the community feel about our school programs in an effort to improve the education experience for their children. Please access our website at www.lcmcisd.org and click on the surveys that apply to your family, Parent Survey Grades PK-5 and Parent Survey Grades 6-12. The surveys will be available through June 30. If you have questions, please call Jody Slaughter, Director of State and Federal Programs, at 883-2232 ext. 2730....
Each week The Record Newspapers features a pet, or pets of the week for adoption through local shelters and rescue organizations. This week’s pets are again rescues from Pups in Peril. Little Gilda is enjoying her playtime while waiting for her forever home. This sweet little lady is as cuddly as they come. If you would like to meet or adopt Gilda, you can fill out an adoption application at the Pups in Peril website - www.pupsinperil.org. Leroy has had no problem settling i...
FATHER KNOWS BEST Well, maybe not always, but he always means well. Being a dad is a privilege. Being a good dad is sometimes hard. Unless you have raised teenagers, you might not fully appreciate the trying times. Even with the best of kids, they sometime believe they know more than dad. Also they will chalk it off as Pops being old fashion. They don’t realize that it’s common horse sense he’s acquired along the way. Some day, when they have children of their own they will realize how right dad was. By then, they will be co...
For the first time all four of The Record’s area baseball teams competed in the same district. The Bridge City Cardinals, the West Orange-Stark Mustangs, the Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears and Orangefield Bobcats all became part of the newly formed Dist. 24-4A. When baseball practice began way back in cold, wet January no one could have foreseen the amazing and surprising outcome of the 2015 baseball season. It was expected that the LCM Bears, the traditional baseball p...
