Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Otis Gene Duhon, 71, of Orange, passed away July 21, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. Born in Orange, Oct. 25, 1942, he was the son of Otha Duhon and Lois (Sarver) Duhon. Otis served in the U. S. Air Force from 1961-1968 and was an electrical technician for every Apollo Mission to the moon. He then became an air conditioning service man and felt that keeping people cool in Southeast Texas was just as important as his work for the Apollo Missions. Otis also loved to fish and hunt. He was loved by all his family and his...
Billy Wayne Smith, 41, of Bridge City, passed away July 18, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. Born in Deridder, La, Oct. 4, 1972, he was the son of Billy Smith and Zora Carolyn Smith, and step-mother, Deborah Carlolta Vangent. Billy loved spending time with his nieces and nephews, going fishing, shooting guns, and playing pool. Billy is survived by step-father, Nico VanGent; siblings, Joseph Smith and wife, Wendee, Christopher Smith, Kathey Duncan, Janis Weeks, Lorri...
The Celebration of Life for Jackie C. Selby, 59, of Orange, will be Saturday, July 26, at 11:00 a.m. at the New Beginnings Outreach Church. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Rites of Christian burial will follow in Magnolia Memorial Gardens, under the direction of Sparrow Funeral Home. The founder of Humpin People Motorcycle Club, and a former U.S. Marine, he died July 19, at Memorial Herman Baptist Orange Hospital....
Donna Alford, assistant election administrator for Orange Co., looks at a blank petition form such as was used for the wet/dry election on alcohol sales in Precinct 2 for the November General Election. The petitions have been completed and turned into the election administration office. RECORD PHOTO: David Ball One election that may have sneaked upon the voting radar is the local option, or wet/dry election for alcohol sales for Precinct 2 in Orange County. Billy Horton,...
It’s time. Grab your dancing shoes, your cooler with drinks and snacks and head down to Riverfront Pavilion Saturday evening. July 26 is the date this year for National Dance Day and Orange County is going to dance 7-9 p.m. Declared in 2010, National Dance Day is held the last Saturday in July with big events in New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., with smaller events cropping up all over the country. This year, Orange is added to the list of events. Of events listed on the DizzyFeetFoundation.org Web site, the next c...
The Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce together with the Stark Cultural Venues are proud to announced the return of Bassmaster Elite Series Tournament at a press conference on July 17 at the chamber’s office. The first tournament was held March 2013. The tournament will be held March 19-22, 2015 at the Orange Public Boat Ramps off of Simmons Drive. RECORD PHOTO: Courtesy Photos This is a tale about the one that didn’t get away. The Greater Orange Area Chamber of Com...
The city of Orange passed two resolutions at their regular meeting Tuesday night in an attempt retain sales tax and Hotel Occupancy Tax monies. The first passed awarded a consultant services agreement to MuniServices, LLC for a sales tax compliance review. MuniServices states their business is designed to assist the city with economic forecasting and in preserving and enhancing its sales and use tax revenues by detecting, documenting, and correcting sales tax misallocations thereby producing previously unrealized revenue for...
Attorneys representing the family members of Robert Montano have filed a lawsuit alleging Orange County employees consciously chose not to ensure that Robert Montano, who is a known mental health patient, received basic human needs, medical and mental health care, food or water. The case is set to go to Federal court in November. In addition, the family along with the attorneys from the Bernsen Law Firm are seeking a temporary injunction to shut down the daily activities of the Orange County Jail. They are awaiting a hearing...
Much needed rains came but in some cases, rain is not that good for the crops. Also, timing is everything. Saturday morning I finally found a chance to break away from pressing chores, doctors visits, etc., to visit my friends, Sue and Tommy Simar. I probably disturbed their Saturday morning on the back porch, drinking coffee and talking about old times and I apologize for that. Tommy, like me, is a collector of old things, equipment, tools and almost anything grandpa used. He even has his granddad’s original ox yoke. T...
We got more than the shark did for a change! RECORD PHOTO: Dickie Colburn You will just have to excuse local bass fishermen for hoping for yet another down pour not unlike the system that parked on top of us last Friday.The flooding conditions, depending on where you reside in Orange County, will make it even tougher on the trout fishermen for a few days, but the bass apparently found it very much to their liking! Even before receiving several emails and phone calls from...
By the time this weekend gets here, all 32 National Football League teams will be at their respective training sites getting ready for the rapidly-approaching 2014 season. The Dallas Cowboys will be at their training facility at the City of Oxnard Field at the California complex, the Houston Texans will be at the Methodist Training Center in Houston while the New Orleans Saints will be at their location called The Greenbriar in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. The Buffalo Bills and the New York Giants began their training camp la...
No matter how hard lure manufacturers try they will never be able to create a lure that works better than real thing, period. The typical profile of the weekend angler is not that of the high end trophy trout hunter who chunks artificial lures for hours on end looking for one big fish, it’s the fisherman who takes a quart of live shrimp or a bucket of mud minnows and looks for anything that will bite. Much has been made of the big trout phenomenon and all the hoopla that surrounds that style of fishing; I personally have d...
Officers from the Orange Police Department responded to the following calls between July 21, and the morning of July 22: Found property, 1717 FM 3247 Theft, 816 Moss St. Stolen vehicle, 110 W. New Jersey Health/safety, 4201 FM 105 Theft, 4450 IH-10/KHTT Design Warrant service, 545 Gardenia Ave. Assault/family violence, 703 10th Traffic accident, 608 Strickland Dr. Warrant service, 37th and Strickland Traffic accident, IH-10 and Hwy. 62 Theft, 201 8th St. Miscellaneous incidents, 201 8th St....
