Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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First, the Orange City Council and the Orange Economic Development Corporation approved construction options to reduce the total cost of the original estimate of the Riverfront Development Project in downtown Orange at a special meeting in October of last year. On Tuesday morning both entities approved using contingency funds for the project due to excessive concrete rip rap that was discovered. The OEDC passed the item unanimously while the city council vote tally was 5-1...
FRIEND RECORDS HISTORY We’ve come on another week and finally got some rain. King would have liked that. Appearing, starting in this week’s issue, is a column by the late King Dunn, who died recently at age 94. Before his death he recorded his life as a youngster and adult and the times. Mr. Dunn, a longtime post master at Mauriceville, spent his entire life in the country community where he and his late wife raised their family. They both contributed to making their community better. You will find King’s column, about the o...
William James Peevey was born weighing 7 pounds, 15 ounces on April 23, 2012 at 10:49 am. to Eric and Amy Peevey of Bridge City. Proud grandparents are Ken and Kathy Johnson of Orange; and Janet and William Peevey of Orange. Proud great-grandparents are Luther and Joann Bradley of Orange and Grady Johnson of Orange....
Some tile floors aren’t meant to last. It’s been 15 years since the tiles were put in place as the surface of the playground at Claiborne West Park. “They’ve served their purpose. It was $22,000 for the whole structure and their surface back then, in ‘97,” said Donna Scales, parks administrator. “We’re having some repairs made to the big playground, here at Claiborne,” she said. Some of the tiles are popping up around the edges and some of the equipment needs repairs inc...
Bridgette Gearen, 28, of Orange, like many single mothers wanted to escape the rigors of everyday life and when she got the chance headed to the beach with family and friends. But, her July 2007 weekend getaway turned out to be deadly and a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Gearen and her daughter, who was 2 years old at the time, had driven to Crystal Beach to spend the night with friends in a rented beach house on Monkhouse Road. The area is commonly known...
Pastor E.B. Lindsey and First Lady Josie Lindsey will be honored July 12-15. Dr. Charles Hawthorne from Detroit, Mich. will be the guest speaker Thursday and Friday night at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3:30 p.m. Pastor Lindsey has been in ministry for 25 years. He is the Superintendent of the East Coast District of Texas Southeast First Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ. A native of Orange, Lindsey graduated from Wallace High School and served four years...
Editor’s Note: Prior to Mr. Dunn’s passing he wrote several articles documenting the history and heritage of the Dunn family and early life in Orange County. His son, Justice of the Peace Judge Derry Dunn gave The Record a copy of these articles so that we could share ‘King’ Dunn’s story. My Dad – William Thomas Dunn I got to thinking about my father and the cause of his death, which I imagine a lot of grandchildren and great-grandchildren never heard but it is a part of the...
A couple weeks ago we attended the closing session of our two grandsons’ Vacation Bible School at Proctor Street Baptist Church. It’s a fine church, led by a dedicated minister, supported by committed staff members, sustained by tireless volunteers, and blessed with faithful parishioners. Now, VBS today isn’t a whole lot different than when I was in vacation bible school back in the Middle Ages. I guess the big difference is in the music today. It’s sort of what I’d call hip-hop. For all I know it might be ‘rip rap’ or ‘sl...
Synthetic drugs are not as common as they once were in the city of Orange, but narcotics officers are still seeing people in possession of the once popular drugs. According to Robert Estrello, narcotics officer for the Orange Police Department, suspects caught with less than one gram of the illegal drug, bath salts, can be charged with a state jail felony. The amount of time a suspect can receive, “goes up from there” if they are caught with more of the dangerous drug. A rec...
The Bridge City City Council had a full slate of zone changes to either approve or disapprove at their regular meeting on Tuesday night. First on the list was a request from the Planning and Zoning Commission for a zone change for Michael Wilson from R-1 (Single Family Residential District) to a C-2 (Second Commercial District) on property located on West Roundbunch Road. The property is 2.446 acres across FM 1442 from Common Ground Church. The frontage is 304.3 feet. The east side of the property is 300-feet deep. The west...
Dear Jim: I hope you don’t think I’m being too informal by calling you Jim instead of Mr. Crane, but I feel that I’ve been a loyal fan (a often critic) of the Houston Astros since they were called the Colt .45’s, back in the early 1960’s. I admit that I stopped being a fan during the middle 1960’s when I was employed by Mr. P.K. Wrigley as a member of the Chicago Cubs baseball organization. But that was a seasonal job before the days of big money and I was in need of 12-month...
Officers from the Orange Police Department responded to the following calls between July 9, and the morning of July 10: Burglary, unlawful entry, residence, 314 E. New York Warrant service, 205 Border Miscellaneous incidents, Boat Ramp Traffic accident, vehicle damage, N. Service Rd., West of MLK Theft, other, 1521 N. 37th St./Oakwood Village Apartments Traffic accident, vehicle damage, FM 105, West of Hwy. 62 Public intoxication, 321 Strickland/Dairy Queen...
The Celebration of Life for Mrs. Rosie Lee Sibley, 87, of Orange, were held Wednesday at the Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church. Dr. John H. Smith is the pastor. The Rev. R. L. Bishop, pastor of the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church of Beaumont, officiated. She died Tuesday, July 3, at her residence. A native of Many, LA, she resided in Orange since 1968. She was a Dietician, retired from Lamar University. Her church home was the Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church,...
The Celebration of Life for Mr. Clinton Allen, 71, of Orange, will be Saturday, July 14, at 11:00 a.m. at the Mount Calvary Baptist Church. Dr. John H. Smith, pastor, will officiate. Rites of Christian Burial will follow in Hollywood Community Cemetery under the direction of Sparrow Funeral Home. Visitation will be Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. at the church. He died July 3 at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. A native of San Augustine, he resided in...
Zucchini’s are finally growing in my garden now. I did not realize you could eat really big ones that you missed. Thanks to one of my friends cooking one and stuffing it I see that they are so good. Just thought after they grew that big it would be ruined because of the seeds inside. Not true. If you do not have a garden and enjoy zucchini try this. Sorry no news on a new location as of yet for the restaurant. Keep your eyes open for me. Must be very reasonable of course. H...
The son of Staci Lisenby was taken away in shackles and tears at the Orange County Courthouse Wednesday morning after he was sentenced to twenty years for the murder of his mother. Lisenby's son, 15, of Orangefield, admitted his guilt by pleading "true" to the allegations that he intentionally and knowingly committed the murder at their home on Feb. 20, 2011. The sentence is pursuant to the "determinate sentencing" provisions of the Texas Family Code. Under a determinate sentence, he will begin his sentence in a juvenile faci...
