Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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This is the time of the year when the big-time football programs get their seasons started on the right foot by playing some lower echelon Division I teams, generally resulting in some real lop-sided scores. And for these smaller schools, it is a chance to fatten their coffers with big paydays at the expense of their football players. These are the games I refer to as “sacrificial lamb” contests. But for most college football fans this is a busy week as they scramble to get domestic things in order so they can watch the...
Games This Week WEST ORANGE-STARK over NEDERLAND –This could very well bE the Mustangs toughest game until they reach the latter stages of the state playoffs. The Bulldogs finished the 2017 season with a 9-3 mark. Starting off the season with an upset victory would be a feather in Nederland’s cap. But it’s unfortunate the bird they choose is bald. BRIDGE CITY over DIBOLL—The Cardinals will find out real fast whether they can win on the road or not. An opening-season win would be great for new head coach Allen DeShazo...
On Friday, August 24, Jim Malain with Entergy delivered a check for $22,250 to be used by teachers throughout the Little Cypress-Mauriceville District for classroom supplies. One category of losses from Hurricane Harvey that is not covered by FEMA, is the tens of thousands of dollars in classroom resources that teachers have bought with their own money and collected through the years. This grant will help replace much of those items lost in the flood. Although the photo was...
If you are lucky enough in your lifetime to spend any amount of time with a good dog you should count yourself fortunate because they are rare and very special. Every “dog person” I know would agree that the unconditional love of a good dog is a wonderful thing and should be experienced by every person at least once. I read a quote once that said “If you ever want to see who really loves you lock your wife and your dog in the trunk of your car for an hour and see who is happi...
“I hope we can get our last keeper redfish before that storm hits us,” said Rud Jenkins while launching another cast toward the small drain.”“You are so pessimistic,” chided his lifelong fishing buddy, Walt Fulmer.“Put your cell phone up and keep casting!” “My cell phone is in the truck,” responded Rud, “just look behind you.”The incessant taunting never ends with these two Houston anglers.I was convinced that Bob Crew and Gene Locke owned the top spot for incessant picking, but that was prior to fishing with Rud and...
Maybe there's a light at the end of the queue. The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is bolstering efforts to address overcrowding at driver license (DL) offices, according to a press release from the department. To help decrease the number of people waiting in line, beginning August 9, additional DPS personnel, including Texas Troopers, will be assigned to the highest-volume DL offices to help identify customers who can immediately get out of line and conduct their...
For those wondering why the Bridge City Farmer's Market went away, there's some good news. Betty Vail, organizer for the market, said people in town have been asking her when it will reopen. The market is taking a break from August 4 to mid September. After that, it will close sometime in November until reopening in the spring. They'll set up from 7 to 11 a.m. on Saturdays at 101 Parkside Drive behind the Bridge City Community Center and the Bridge City Public Library. "Our...
Dave Rogers For The Record Orange County went back in time Tuesday – to before October of 2016 – to return to the good old days of six weeks a year of paid vacation. County commissioners voted 3-2 to return to the old policy that grants county employees four weeks of paid vacation per year after 10 years of service, five weeks after 15 years and six weeks after 20 years. The change, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2019, comes despite Commissioners Barry Burton and Jody Crump voting against it. Crump and Burton, who lost the...
HERO-STATESMAN-PATRIOT-LEADER Wednesday, Aug. 29, would have been Sen. John McCain’s 82nd birthday. He died Saturday, Aug. 25, after battling brain cancer for the last year. McCain spent 30 years in the United States Senate. Over the years he wrote multiple books and made hundreds of speeches. He was known and admired around the world. He twice ran for president, losing the GOP nomination in 2000 to Texas governor George W. Bush. He lost the general election in 2008 to Democratic U.S. senator Barack Obama. Ironically both B...
Photo: The school board at West Orange-Cove's voted Monday night for the district to establish its own police department. RECORD PHOTO Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record The West Orange-Cove school district could have its own police department as soon as next spring. That’s what Superintendent Rickie Harris said Monday night, moments after the school board voted 7-0 to establish a district police department. Harris says the plan is to first hire a police chief, then a...
Pictured left to right are: Betty Leleaux, Winn Leleaux, Leslie Veitch, David Villanoueva, Phyllis Villanoueva, Tammie Marshall, Bridge City Lion’s Club President, and Beth Arnold, Marketing Director for Wellspring Credit Union. Helping our community continue to heal and Grow Stronger Together When Wellspring Credit Union learned of the loss of frying equipment by the Bridge City Lion’s Club due to the devastation of Harvey, it reached out with a donation of $2,500 to replace...
Ray Paul Jungen, 78, of Orange, TX passed away on August 25, 2018 at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston. The funeral Mass will be at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, August 31, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Orange with Father Joseph Daleo as celebrant. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 30, with the recitation of the Rosary at 6:30 p.m., at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Ray was born in Tyle...
Cutline: Former AFL-CIO vice president Gene Edgerly, left, feeds ducks from the pond at the home he shares with his wife, former Justice of the Peace Flo Edgerly. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record Good news for organized labor in Texas came with a big uptick in union workers employed in 2017. “Unions are on their way up in this area,” said Todd Longron of Orangefield, business agent for Pipefitters Local 211. Before the early start dates for public sch...
Dave Rogers For The Record While no taxpayers came forward during the first public hearing on the City of Orange’s proposed tax rate increase, there was heard a discouraging word or two Tuesday evening. “You just can’t keep tapping homeowners for more money, more money, more money,” Alan Mesecher said during the citizens’ comment portion of the meeting. The city has posted a proposed rate increase of 12.3 cents per $100 property value, raising the rate from 0.71774 to 0.83004 to help bridge the gap created by lower property...
