Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Sorted by date Results 1 - 16 of 16
Photo by Tommy Mann Jr. Country music star Clint Black will perform at 8:30 p.m., Friday, Aug. 25, inside the Grand Event Center of the Golden Nugget Casino in Lake Charles, La. Tickets are on sale at all Ticketmaster outlets for ages 21 and older. Entertainment for the week By Tommy Mann Jr. The Record Another great week of entertainment is on tap around the region, including live music, theater and even comedy. Find what is right for you and make the most of it. Follow Local Music Guide on Facebook for more information on...
TICISM If anyone read Sunday’s edition of the Houston Chronicle’s sport section, they would have seen two articles involving National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell and another story near the back of the section about Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred.Although both of these CEOs receive much more criticism than compliments, after reading both of these articles, I have to agree that several points supporting the gist of these stories have much merit.The piece about Goodell begins, “No one should hold...
It seems that over the past two months, be it local, state or national, some group has hosted a tournament on Sabine Lake every weekend.If your favorite spot has any merit all, don’t count on getting on it on a Saturday morning. If, however, you are more into learning than catching, these are wonderful opportunities to observe and learn everything from how to best fish productive structure to fishing different lures and techniques.If you keep your distance and rely on your troll motor to quietly move around rather than y...
Ruth A. Ellis, 94, of Bridge City, Texas, passed away on Monday, August 21, 2017, at Baptist Hospital of Southeast Texas, in Beaumont, Texas. Ruth is survived by her daughter, Elaine Hearn, and her grandchildren, Darren D-Ray Hearn and Teressa George. Arrangements, under the direction of Dorman Funeral Home, are currently pending....
The Orange African American Museum will be hosting a catfish dinner fundraiser Friday at the museum parking lot, 404 W. Park Avenue, Friday, August 25 from noon until sold out. Dinners also include French fries, baked beans, soda and dessert for an $8 donation. Contact 409-221-7989 or 409-221-1339 for preorders....
Approximately 1,000 educators from West Orange-Cove, Little Cypress-Mauriceville, Orangefield and Vidor kicked off the school year at the Lutcher Theater in Orange on Tuesday, August 22, with a county-wide instructional staff convocation. The teachers and others involved in curriculum and instruction, were there to learn to, “teach like a pirate.” The pirate, doing the session is Dave Burgess, a best-selling author who specializes in transforming education through dynamic professional development programs and the pub...
ORANGE, Texas, August 21, 2017 – The Board of Directors of First Financial Bank, N.A., today announced the construction of a new Southeast Texas Regional Banking Center at the corner of Park and North 16th Street. Construction of the new banking center is expected to be complete in the fall of 2018, at which time the City of Orange will occupy the current bank location. “We believe this is an extremely positive development for our bank, the City and our entire com...
Photo: Courtney Smith owner of K9 Devine in Bridge City is in the company of her canine companions. Staff Report For The Record Playful pups scamper across the indoor area filled with chew toys, balls, toddler beds. A caregiver walks among the happy pack, at times throwing a ball, scratching a furry head and passing out treats. While most of the dogs are on the move, some are napping on the mattresses, at least until a friend comes and nudges them to play. Mastiffs, Yorkshire...
For The Record Orange County commissioners’ court voted to offer a $135,000 settlement to a lawsuit brought by a former jail inmate Tuesday. With County Judge Stephen Brint Carlton and Commissioner Barry Burton absent, the remaining three commissioners, Johnny Trahan, John Gothia and Jody Crump, voted unanimously to OK the offer in the Jerry Carthel vs. Orange County lawsuit. County Judge Pro Tem Crump, who ran Tuesday’s meeting, said commissioners could not comment until fin...
Hershel Stagner, Jr., Orange County’s Justice of the Peace Precinct 1, and wife Debra traveled to Hopkinsville, Kentucky on Saturday to be at the “epicenter” for the viewing of the 2017 Eclipse. The town, with a population of approximately 33,000, was declared by NASA to be the point of greatest eclipse. The town was expecting 500,000 people and hotels were booked and sold out within a 75-mile radius. The Festival encompassed all of downtown with booths, food and conce...
The remnants of Harvey are likely to regenerate into a tropical cyclone over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday or Thursday, move northwestward, and possibly make landfall along the Texas coast by Friday. This system could produce storm surge flooding along portions of the Texas coast and flooding rainfall across portions of southern and eastern Texas and western Louisiana. Tropical storm or even hurricane force winds are also possible along portions of the Texas coast, although it is too early to determine which...
For The Record Orange City Council held its first public hearing on its first proposed tax hike in four years Tuesday and no one stepped forward to comment for or against. The council has set a proposed tax rate of 71.774 cents per $100 valuation, which is up nearly a penny from 70.940 cents per $100 valuation and an effective tax hike of 6.23 percent. But the average home in the city of Orange has gone up in value 6 percent since 2016 and the effective tax rate – the tax rate...
LOCAL JUDGE VIEWS ‘COSMIC MAGIC’ Judge Hershel Stagner and his wife Debra, traveled to Hopkinsville, Kentucky on Aug. 21 to view the eclipse at the epicenter of totality. The eclipse lasted 2:41 minutes. It had been 99 years since America’s last Pacific to Atlantic total solar eclipse in 1919 and 38 years since the last such eclipse occurred in the continental United States. In 1979 this writer witnessed it but that was before almost half of Americans alive to see Monday’s eclipse were born. A nation separated by politic...
For the Record Capt. Chuck Uzzle The sleek silhouette coasted over the tree line with that familiar darting flight pattern, the volley of shots only confirmed the obvious and the dove continued on its way toward the stock tank to get a much needed drink. This scene is played out thousands of times in the state of Texas as hunters take to the field suffering the effects of a long off season without much, if any, practice. Shooting these fast flying birds is enough of a challenge without any other interference, like most dove...
For The Record Matt Bryant admitted he didn’t really know Kelly Hart, president of Bridge City Youth Football, and he played for a different league growing up. But the NFL’s leading scorer in 2016 knows a good project when he hears one. And if it’s for kids, it gets Bryant’s attention. “Any time kids are involved, if I can, I try to step up,” said the former all-district linebacker for Bridge City High who is beginning his 16th season as a kicker in the NFL. Hart contacted B...
Cutline: Award-winning teacher and educator trainer Dave Burgess spoke to more than 1,300 Orange County teachers Tuesday at the Lutcher Theater. For The Record Teachers got their “Pirate” on Tuesday morning, and not just those from Vidor. Approximately 1,300 educators from West Orange-Cove, Little Cypress-Mauriceville, Orangefield and Vidor kicked off the school year at the Orange CountyTeachers Convocation at Lutcher Theater. Dave Burgess, a New York Times best-selling aut...
