Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Advocate for Children, Inc., a CASA program serving six counties in the region and headquartered in a lovely building in Orange County is gearing up for an exciting year helping children that need it most. The members of the board of directors met together with the newly employed executive director, Nikki Jones, and to map out plans for moving forward, taking on more children from the busy court system, and engaging the community more directly in the activities, plans, and...
A Fundraiser to support Demi Demas' sarcoma treatment will be held Sunday, June 29, at the Cardinal Snow-cone Stand on Texas Avenue in Bridge City (across from post office). There will be a raffle for a free Open heat registration for the September 20 event at Ford Park. The number of entries being given away will depend on how many raffle tickets sold. Tickets will be priced at $2 with no limit on the amount you can purchase. There will be links, drinks, snowcones, and a...
Juanita Jones Mangham, 87, of Orange, passed away on June 19, at The Meadows Nursing Rehabilitation in Orange. Born in Bess May, on Jan. 8, 1927, she was the daughter of William C. Jones and Thelma Ausela (Clark) Jones. Juanita graduated from Stephen F. Austin with a Bachelor’s Degree and she worked as a teacher for 34 years at Anderson, St. Paul’s, and McLewis schools. She was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. She loved to play bridge. She was preceded in death by her loving daughter-in-law, Brigitte Mangham; brother,...
Officers from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls between June 18 and June 24: June 18: Discharge of firearm/deadly conduct, 8458 Glenwood Dr., Orange Death investigation, 1205 block W. Circle Dr. Theft, 790 Bailey St., Vidor Welfare concern, 4425 Revere Ln., Vidor Criminal mischief, 5520 Polar, Orange Burglary of habitation, 391 Rose Ln., Orange Assault, 3397 Elk Dr., Orange June 19: Suspicious person, 10000 block FM 105, Orange Burglary of building, 150 Pleasant St./storage units, Vidor A...
Pictured is Captain Danny Gray who loved being a police officer Many recall when Captain Danny Gray was killed during a jail break forty years ago this week. June 28, 1974 started out quiet in Orange, but the day had all the twists and turns of a badly written western movie script, complete with armed robbery, a shoot out during a jail break and a posse rounded up to catch the bad guys. Sharon Bearden, now a private attorney in Orange was the district attorney at the time,...
Escape the grind and unwind. Grab your lawn chairs and blankets, family and friends, and come on out and have some fun at the Born on the Bayou July Fourth celebration. Relax by the water that runs underneath the historic Bridge City swing bridge. Enjoy live entertainment by the Wayne Dylan Band. Hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos, links, snow cones, ice cream and drinks will be available so you can stay out of the kitchen! The event begins Friday evening at 5 p.m. A tribute to all...
THE RAINS CAME, IT HAS TO HELP Well, we finally got some rain Tuesday and it looks like more might be coming. You can’t bet on South East Texas weather, however. Your neighbor might get a barrel full and you a cup.*****I love this time of year because of fresh vegetables. Thanks to Judge Derry, Commissioner Burton and Neighbor Cox, I’ve managed to keep a supply of tomatoes. Owen did get me some of Tom’s squash but besides that other vegetables have been scarce. I’m told it was the lack of rain. No okra and few cucumbe...
From Possum Trot, Ga. to the Grand Ole Opry and beyond, Wally Fowler blazed musical trails. I’m proud to record those times in the pages of history. The year was 1948, Dudley J. leBlanc, the inventor of Hadacol, had come up with a great promotional idea, a Hadacol caravan featuring the biggest entertainment talent in the country. The show traveled the United States and admittance was free. Just one box top from a box of Hadacol is all that was needed to catch the biggest s...
Officers with the Orange Police Department responded to the following calls between June 23, and the morning of June 24: Assist other agency, 1924 Robin Ave. Theft, 1405 10th St. Theft, 201 8th St. Follow-up investigation, Conroe, Tx. Simple assault, 1555 16th St. Theft, 201 8th St. Miscellaneous, 3117 23rd St. Follow-up investigation, 1609 16th St. Warrant service, 205 Border St. Damaged property, 4205 Old Hwy. 90/Brown Center...
In Dec 2011 at the young age of 19, Demi Demas was diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer called Desmoid Sarcoma. At that time she had surgery and was treated with radiation. Since then, Demas has had to go every three months for check ups, labs, X-rays, etc. In Nov 2013 at one of her follow-ups she found out the cancer is back. This time it is inoperable. The first plan of treatment was oral chemo for three months and recheck progress. This past week she went for her...
Cowboys 2014 success depends on a completely healthy Romo While most of the 30 National Football League franchises were focused on last week’s Organized Team Activities, acquainting their newly-drafted rookies and players obtained via trades and free agency to their basic system of playing in the league, the Dallas Cowboys were giving simple reps to some of their key players coming off serious injuries, Those three mandatory days in which players under contract to the team MUST participate in all the activities or suffer h...
After weeks of constantly changing winds that have driven anglers crazy it seems that better days are officially here. The traditional summer programs are now actually fishable and anglers have more options than just hiding from the howling winds. Sabine and Calcasieu have now become much more fisherman friendly and it seems that not only has the weather begun to cooperate but the fish have also decided to join the party as well. The best thing about this time of the year is t...
Earl Thomas III, Super Bowl champion, continues to give back all he can to the community he loves and grew up in. A free football skills camp for ages 8 - 18, will be held Friday and Saturday, June 27 and 28, from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. All football campers will have a great opportunity to meet and work with Earl and other great NFL players. After the kid’s camp concludes on Saturday, the Adult 7-on-7 two-hand touch Flag Football Tournament begins. Adult teams from all over Southeast Texas, including one from our local police d...
Hannah Roberson with a solid trout on another very windy day! Much of Sabine Lake is still a little more off-colored than normal for this time of the year, but the wind gave local anglers a break across the weekend and the catching was a little easier. While both rivers continue to pump fresh water into the lake it obviously hasn’t hurt the salinity levels to any significant degree. Over a three day period we caught everything from jack fish to trout schooling in the open l...
I called him Papaw, and he was my mother’s father, although, in the way of the complex, noisy tribe of my family, he acted as a sort of father-figure to me, too. Both of my grandfathers did. We spent a lot of time together over the years, but what I remember most clearly is that he would sing to me in his nice baritone, old Elvis songs, spirituals, things he heard growing up. He’d warble at me as he pushed me in the red plastic swing in his backyard. “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” was his favorite. It was a constant refrain throu...
