Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Pictured: Prosecutor, Hunter Reeves questions Principal, Amanda Jenkins, about her knowledge of the missing candy bar. Defendant, Luke Erickson, Defense Attorney, Mason Boullion, Judge, Natalie Bickham, and Bailiff, Hannah Bisson, follow along awaiting their turns. Orangefield Elementary School’s 3rd Graders in Mrs. Wolfford’s Reading class, participated in a mock trial, The Case of the Missing Candy Bar. This was a culminating activity that went along with their reading sto...
Games This Week WEST ORANGE-STARK over LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE— It’s been a real long time since the Mustangs have lost two games in a row and get defeated at Dan Hooks Stadium, so they should be really fired up for Friday night’s cross-town rivalry at Bear Stadium. The ‘Stangs will take out their frustrations on the Bears, who still are looking for their first points of the young season. JASPER over BRIDGE CITY—The Cards just couldn’t get anything going last week at Diboll and will on the road again against an even tou...
I distinctly remember when I first cultivated an interest in the National Football League back in the middle 1950’s. Living in upstate New York, there was only one NFL team to follow—the New York Giants. I recall their safety and punter named Tom Landry. Y.A. Tittle was the quarterback. Frank Gifford was the halfback. Alex Webster was the fullback. Allie Sherman was the coach. The team was fun to watch because it was consistently good. I have been an NFL fan even before I became a sportswriter in 1960 while attending McN...
Labor Day weekend turned soggy Sunday evening and it looks as though we have more rain to come.Higher off colored water will slow a pretty good bite down initially, but some significant tide changes should help improve the bite in Sabine Lake. While most hard core bass fishermen wrote off the weekend to way too much recreational pressure on Rayburn and Toledo Bend, eighteen year old Zack Smith made it one to remember. “I fished at night for the first time last month and caught my largest bass ever, a four pounder, on a p...
The famed span across the Neches River that would become the Rainbow Bridge is shown during construction in this 1937 photograph. A marvel of it’s time, it remains an important and vital transportation link between Orange and Jefferson Counties. Archival PHOTO: The Record archive From The Record Archives by Robert Hankins Updated: David Ball For The Record When you look back, it’s amazing that the Rainbow Bridge was completed in under three years. It was naming the darn thi...
Don Jacobs “One of a Kind” Donald Wayne Jacobs, age 80, died Aug. 24, 2018. Don and I went back over 40 years. He started off writing a column for our Opportunity Valley News and later became editor of our Beaumont weekly, The Consumer Beacon. He continued to write for us at our Port Arthur/Mid-County publication, The Community Post. Throughout the years Don kept up his newspaper writing with a Country Music column in the Beaumont Enterprise. I gave him his first job as a column writer. Don was a natural writer and was des...
Photo: Orange County Commissioners' Court proclaimed September as National Suicide Prevention Month during Tuesday's meeting. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States and increasing awareness of available resources is the goal. Lane Fortenberry of Spindletop Center, front left, is joined by Patricia Allen, Ala Abbott and Billy Pruitt in receiving the proclamation from Commissioners Johnny Trahan, top left, and Barry Burton, County Judge Dean Crooks and C...
Photo: The city of Orange is taking steps to sell the old fire station on MacArthur Drive, next to Lions City Park. The structure has spent the last two decades either repurposed or empty. RECORD Photo: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record The City of Orange took the first step Tuesday toward selling the former fire station on MacArthur Drive. The Planning and Zoning Commission voted to declare the structure and half-acre of land between Lions City Park and Sabine River...
www.setexasrain.org Southeast Texas Regional Alerting & Information Network (SE TEXAS R.A.I.N.) is a consolidated list of river and reservoir gaging stations and hydrologic forecasts for the five-county Southeast Texas area. The launch of www.setexasrain.org provides access to user-friendly information and data to help residents throughout Southeast Texas when making necessary and timely decisions during threatening weather conditions. After the torrential floods brought on...
The Orange city council recently gave first approval of an Orange Economic Development Corporation incentive for Triangle Rescue Inc. to build a training facility at 3875 I-10E, near the American Red Cross office. The company currently offers on-site emergency rescue training to a number of area plants and refineries. Its proposed Orange facility, above, would host training for plant workers in Jefferson and Orange County sites and Calcasieu Parish. The EDC agreement for up...
SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF 9-11 Most of us remember what we were doing on that terrible day when two planes destroyed the twin towers and another wrecked the Pentagon. A fourth plane controlled by the terrorists3 crashed and killed everyone aboard. Dwayne Morse and I were visiting at the Creaux’s Nest, our office in Bridge City, before Ike came. We had a black and white TV on that we were not paying much attention to when I said, “Damn, those planes ran into those buildings.” The rest is history. Bin Laden claimed respo...
