Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce that Texas 87 Digital Outdoor Advertising has been named Business of the Month for July 2019. Owner Mark Dunn accepted the award from Ambassador/Board Member Lucy Fields. Award presentation took place at the July Networking Coffee hosted by Merle Norman and Milli Kids Boutique. Texas 87 Digital Outdoor Advertising received an acrylic award sponsored by Sabine River Ford and gifts from Tiger Rock Martial Arts of Bridge...
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce has announced that Seth Martin, of Brick Oven Pizza, has been named July Employee of the Month. Seth accepted his award from Lifetime Ambassador Dave Derosier, owner of OhainWEB.com, at the chamber’s July Networking Coffee hosted by Merle Norman and Milli Kids Boutique. Seth is a 2017 graduate of Bridge City High School. He is currently a sophomore at Lamar University where he is majoring in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. Seth r...
Dave Rogers For The Record The finish line is in sight, but it’s been pushed back again. An official with the Texas Department of Transportation said Tuesday that the historic swing bridge on East Roundbunch Road isn’t expected to reopen until the end of August. The previously stated timeline for the $11.4 million project was for a mid-July completion. And before that, it was in early 2019. And before that, mid-2018. The bridge has been closed since March of 2017 for str...
Dave Rogers For The Record After six years on the City of Bridge City’s buildings and standards committee, Danny Harrington let it be known around City Hall that he would welcome a new challenge. “I told them if they had a position with a little more involved, I might be interested,” he said, “but I never thought it would be on the city council. “I’m honored and thankful they chose me for this honor.” Mayor David Rutledge said “several people expressed interest” in th...
Photo: Orange native, Gerald Mathews, coached his tennis team all the way to the CIF Southern Section Division 2 Championship in California. Photo courtesy of Velenta Mathews. Penny LeLeux For The Record Gerald Mathews had great athletic ability in high school, but he was too small for team sports. He never let that hold him back. Today Mathews is a tennis coach in California and his team recently captured the CIF Southern Section Division 2 championship at the Claremont Club...
THANKS “TIB” A special thanks to Judge Carl Thibodeaux who answered the call of duty and again did a yeoman’s job filling the county court judgeship. He is already recorded on Orange County history as the longest serving County Judge who came back for a four-month stay. Thibodeaux will be leaving soon so John Gothia can be certified but Tib has weathered so many storms we couldn’t let him leave without another disturbance coming by to say goodbye. Hopefully it will be a light-hearted storm that will make its presence felt in...
Photo: Jacksonville, Texas, the self-proclaimed “Tomato Capital of Texas,” has decorated its downtown businesses and neighborhoods with large tomato sculptures for a decade. Dave Rogers For The Record They don’t call it Orange for nothing and the future is looking bright and orange with big and heavy oranges. The Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce rolled out its “The Orange Grove” project Tuesday, selling 650-pound, 30-inches-across concrete oranges “to promote pri...
Photo: State champion golfer Jack Burke of Little Cypress-Mauriceville, right, is recognized by Orange Mayor Larry Spears as city council declared it Jack Burke Day in Orange at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Dave Rogers For The Record The Texas Legislature’s vote earlier this year to help Texas property owners avoid skyrocketing taxes in the future could cause them some pain come New Year’s Eve. With more than a year until property tax reforming Senate Bill 2 goes into...
I chose the week of the Fourth of July to take a break from the hard life of being retired and traveled to San Antonio to participate in the American Contract Bridge League’s annual Regional Tournament. This gave me a chance to reunite with my good friend Bob Hood, who moved to a retirement complex in the Alamo City after spending nearly 50 years in Orange. Bob and I go back some 40 years when we played volleyball together with our regular group every Monday and Wednesday night at the West Orange Junior High gymnasium. W...
