Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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I had just dropped my wife’s SUV off at Sabine Ford to be serviced and was standing in the rain waiting for her to pick me up when Trey Smith opened the door and politely pointed out that it was significantly drier inside. I feel relatively certain that his initial thought was, “Why is that fool standing in the rain,” but he managed to keep that thought to himself. In short order we were talking fishing and it was apparent that Trey was a little more upbeat than the last time we had talked. There is very little that he does n...
Photo: Samantha and Connor Ziller promoted Back to School Orange County at the Recent Cops'nKids picnic at Claiborne West Park. Preregistration for the free school supply program for Orange County students is now underway. RECORD PHOTO: Penny LeLeux Penny LeLeux For The Record It’s almost time for the annual school supply giveaway sponsored by Back to School Orange County. The program was started due to the end of the Texas desktop program several years ago. “As a result man...
Cutline: Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, president of Qatar Petroleum, shakes hands with Chevron Phillips Chemical president Mark Lashier during a signing ceremony at the White House for an agreement to jointly pursue a new petrochemical plant for the U.S. Gulf Coast. Dave Rogers For The Record Orange County’s BIG IF just got way bigger. IF only it comes in for a landing. If Chevron Phillips Chemical should ultimately choose Orange County for its new multi-billion-dollar ethylene p...
Lamar State College Orange hosted Tuesday’s meeting of the Golden Triangle Business Roundtable, attended by about 75 men and women who were told of new training programs being offered and innovated by the school. From left, are Thera Celestine, director of pharmacy tech and workforce education; Earl Geis, director of industrial and process technology; Captain Chris Horner, director of maritime program; Gina Simar, dean of health, workforce and technical education; LSCO p...
Photo: Orange County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint John Gothia as County Judge to replace the retiring Carl Thibodeaux. Gothia’s term expires in December 2020 and elections for 2021 terms begin with party primaries next March. Dave Rogers For The Record The decision was hardly a secret, so the Orange County Commissioners set a record Tuesday for the shortest closed meeting. It took only a couple of minutes to reopen the doors to the Commissioners’ Cou...
The latest rumor going around the major league baseball stadiums is that today’s baseballs are “juiced” and that’s why there is a record number of home runs hit during the first half of the 2019 season. The loudest squawking is coming from our own Justin Verlander, the ace of the Houston Astros’ pitching staff and perhaps the best hurler is the major leagues, who knows first-hand of the problem because he has surrendered more homers (26) than any other MLB pitcher. Verlander has plenty of allies to his theory, although...
Local screenwriter/filmmaker Penny LeLeux is raising additional funds for production and postproduction costs for her short film “Shhh” which is scheduled to start shooting in August. The fundraiser campaign is 40% funded. The film is a spy/romantic comedy that will showcase Orange locations great for future filming and also showcase area singer/songwriters in the soundtrack for the film. This is going to be a fun little film that should do well in the festival circuit, sho...
COUNTY SET TO MOVE FORWARD Today Orange County again is under a different administration, this time by design. The last two years have had as many county judges as the previous 40 years. After Dean Crooks resigned the county judge post, former county judge Carl Thibodeaux, a Democrat, was asked to fill the post for a few months and at the time of his resignation appoint someone to fill the vacancy on the court. One of the present commissioners would resign and the rest of the court would appoint that person to become county...
Photo: Lois Smith of Orange shows a 1944 photo of the loading of the US Navy ship USS LST 496. Her great uncle, Doug Goodman, of Orange, was killed when the ship struck a German mine just off Omaha Beach during the Allied Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record For more than 75 years, Orange’s Lois Smith has waited for her uncle Doug Goodman to come home from the D-Day invasion. Smith, 82, is expecting that the sailor’s body wil...
