Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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With Reporting from Mark Dunn President Donald Trump made a quick 90-minute stop in Orange County Saturday afternoon at the end of a tour of Hurricane Laura storm damage in Louisiana and Texas. The visit was anticipated and predicted by The Record Newspapers website a day earlier, but went unannounced by the White House except to local Republican Party officials and invited key civil and political personnel. His time in Texas' most southeastern city was strictly private,...
Orange County Judge John Gothia is lifting the Mandatory Evacuation Order as of 5 pm this evening, August 28, 2020 for all of Orange County. Citizens that come back to the county need to be self-sufficient due to the major power outages within the county. The mandatory curfew is still in effect from 9 pm to 5 am....
Orange County Sheriff Lane Mooney did not mince words. "We dodged a bullet on this one," he said as dawn broke over Southeast Texas Thursday morning a few hours after Hurricane Laura had blown through. "So far, we haven't had to do any rescues." Entergy Texas reported 35,000 power outages in Orange County as of 9 a.m.Orange Mayor Larry Spears Jr., reported a lot of trees down on power lines, blown out glass at restaurants on 16th Street and even some metal roofs blown off....
President Donald Trump said he plans to visit Texas this weekend on a trip to survey damage from Hurricane Laura and he could make a stop in Orange. If so, it will come on the heels of a Thursday flyover tour and Orange City Hall press conference by all the Texas political stars, led by Gov. Greg Abbott and the state's U.S. Senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. They were all in the area to see first-hand the damage in their state caused by Hurricane Laura, which saved its...
Lamar State College Orange announced late Friday it was joining east Orange county's public school districts in cancelling school until at least Sept. 7 because of damage caused by Hurricane Laura. The school districts include Bridge City, Orangefield, Little Cypress-Mauriceville and West Orange-Cove. They and the college all received wind damage but the uncertainty about when electrical service may return to the schools' neighborhoods and buildings is the biggest unknown....
After four years of dithering over a repair and just more than a year after it finally got fixed, the Orange County Courthouse has lost its marble again. It's time to check the warranty. Gusts of as much as 100 mph from Hurricane Laura caused a goodly chunk of the $200,000 repair to crash from the top of the three-story facade over the courthouse's main entrance at the end of Orange's Main Street. No one was injured by the falling rock, and not just because Hurricane Laura...
