Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas—Hot and dry conditions across the state of Texas will create high wildfire potential through the weekend. Continued triple digit temperatures and dry conditions will reduce the moisture in vegetation across the landscape, increasing the possibility for wildfire ignitions to occur this week. Today, the fire environment will support an increased potential for large wildfires that are resistant to control to occur near Wichita Falls, Fort Worth, Waco, A...
July 12, 2022 - The LCM Board of Trustees appointed Clint Temple to Place 1 at the July Regular Board Meeting earlier this week. The appointment comes following the resignation of Randy McIlwain from the seat in July. Mr. Temple is a longtime resident of the district. He attended grade school in Mauriceville and graduated from LCM High School in 2000. Following graduation, he played football at Louisiana College before eventually returning home to attend Lamar State...
P. J. Barnum once said, “There is a sucker born every minute.” He made millions using that philosophy with his circus. If democracy is to survive, we need to not be suckers when we vote. Our record so far has not been so good. Millions are now being spent to convince us that climate change is a hoax. The money is coming from those fearing loss of profits. Lessons should be learned from past history. Remember when we were told that cigarettes did not cause cancer, or that asb...
Roy Dunn, publisher of this paper, and I can be cited as a good example of how politics in America should work. Our relationship began over 50 years ago. A close friend of Roy’s was my opponent when I first ran for re-election to the House of Representatives. The race was competitive, but there was no name calling or dirty politics. Later we were on different sides of an election for the Senate. Even so, we remained friendly and grew to be really good friends. We could, and s...
NCA Camp 2022 is in the books and these cheerleaders and mascots did amazing as well as the entire LCM program. We are so proud of these young ladies for working so hard and killing it at camp this year. We were told from NCA staff and other cheer coaches how impressed they were with our whole program. • VARSITY/JV cheer & Mascot Awards: • 2 Superior ribbons for evaluations • Herkie Team award for evaluations • Motion technique award for evaluations • Entire JV, Varsity &...
How quickly time passes us by! Another week has come and gone. Summer is going to be with us for several months, providing us ample opportunity to continue with our seasonal gardening tasks such as lawn maintenance, weeding flower beds, harvesting vegetables, replanting vegetable gardens and replacing faded spring flowers with summer plantings. Many gardeners also choose to undertake larger garden projects during the spring and summer months, often adding water features or...
The idea of football teams leaving the conference they have played football in for decades to join the two main "super-conferences" like the Southeastern Conference or the Big Ten came about after the Supreme Court's 1984 antitrust ruling in the case of NCAA vs. Oklahoma's Board of Regents. This ruling stripped the NCAA of its ability to regulate college football's TV contracts and team appearances on the air, according to an article in Sunday's edition of the Washington Post...
