Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Orange County Commissioner John Gothia’s Precinct 1 office is at the Orange County Airport, so he’s been an avid watcher of government aircraft since the state and federal military began responding to the historic flooding caused by Tropical Storm Harvey. Monday, he noted how aircraft from two different eras, the World War II era “Bluebonnet Belle” of the Commemorative Air Force, and the Chinook helicopter, had come together to bring aid. Larry Trimm also chipped in a helicop...
Entergy Texas officials hope they have at least a temporary fix to most of Orange County’s electricity problems. Plans are for the company to install a mobile substation to temporarily take the place of its flooded substation in Vidor’s Wexford Park addition. Tuesday began with Orange County still showing about 8,100 customer outages from Tropical Storm Harvey, which dropped about 50 inches on Southeast Texas in a five-day span ending last Wednesday. Zip code 77662, which inc...
The National Weather Service in Lake Charles is still seeing major flooding on several rivers across our region, nearly a week after Orange City Councilman took this photo from his vehicle looking down 16th Street in Orange. Major flooding is ongoing not only at the Sabine River in Orange, Deweyville and Bon Wier and Cow Bayou near Mauriceville, but also at Pine Island Bayou at Sour Lake/Bevil Oaks, Neches River at Salt Water Barrier and Beaumont, and the Calcasieu River at...
West Orange-Cove ISD said its Middle School flooded as a result of last week’s Tropical Storm Harvey and that all its buildings received at least minor water damage. Orangefield has also announced some of its buildings were damaged. WO-C, posting on its district website, reminded parents that it planned to re-evaluate later this week if it can determine a date to start school. All of Orange County’s five public school districts held emergency meetings last week to make pla...
PHOTO: All lanes of Texas-87 North and South in Bridge City were jammed Monday as a result of flooding in Southeast Texas. Monday’s drive time from one end of town to the other was more than an hour. The reopening of Interstate-10 should help relieve the congestion. Interstate-10 East and West has now reopened, Sarah Dupre, public information officer for TxDOT, confirmed Monday night. The reopening of the interstate may relieve stacked up traffic through Bridge City as motorists detour on Texas-87/73. Traffic was b...
Registering online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov, is the quickest way to register for FEMA assistance. If you are unable to access the internet, you can also call at 1-800-621-3362. When you register for disaster assistance either online or by phone, you will need the following to complete your application: • Social Security number • Address of the location where the damage occurred (pre-disaster address) • Current mailing address • Current telephone number • Insurance information • Total household annual income • Routing a...
Workforce Solutions Centers 1-877-834-5627 The Beaumont & Port Arthur Workforce Centers will reopen Tuesday, Sept. 5 with limited staff. The Orange Center will remain closed until further notice. Workforce Solutions Southeast Texas will reopen their Beaumont and Port Arthur Workforce Solutions Centers with normal business hours as of Tuesday, September 5, 2017. The Beaumont center is located downtown at 510 Park Street. The Port Arthur Center is located at 3901 Twin City...
Shirley McDaniel Burton went to be with her Lord and Savior Wednesday afternoon, August 23rd at Christus Hospital in Beaumont surrounded by her loved ones. Born in Wiergate, TX on March 6, 1939 she was the daughter of Sim Albert McDaniel and Frankie Simmons Walker. She was the Office Manager for a real estate company for 18 years, served her community as an active member and officer of the Mauriceville PTA and was active in her Sunday School class, The Martha’s, and church, F...
Staff Report-For The Record LifeShare is re-opening its donation center at 4305 Laurel Street in Beaumont on Wednesday, September 6. The blood donation center plans to resume normal center hours. Cancelled blood drives and closed centers resulted in more than 1,500 expected LifeShare blood donations not taking place due to the impact of Hurricane Harvey. LifeShare provides Beaumont area hospitals with donated blood, along with most of the hospitals in Louisiana, as well as some medical teams in the Houston area. “We r...
Charles Robert (C.R.) Fleming went to be with his Lord and Savior on August 31, 2017, surrounded by his wife and children. C.R. was born on February 8, 1938, in Rodessa, Louisiana. He was the son of Norman Fleming and Ollie Jane Davenport Fleming. He was a member of the first graduating class of Bridge City High School in 1957 where he was an all-district basketball player and was voted Best All Around by his senior class. He retired from Printpack in Orange, Texas in 2002...
Sara Elizabeth Green Bertles, known to most as "Sallie," of Bridge City, Texas, passed away on August 24th, 2017 in Houston, Texas. A celebration and memorial service honoring her will be held at Noon, Saturday September 9, 2017 at Winfree Baptist Church on Highway 62 in Orange, Texas. Officiating will be Dr. Gary Hopkins, and Pastor Bill Collier. The family will receive friends beginning at 10:00 am until the service begins. Born in Salem, New Jersey on May 17, 1940 Sallie was the daughter of George Plummer Green and Mary...
PHOTO: Bridge City officials and first responders meet at the Bridge City Community Incident Command Center. Staff Report - For The Record Bridge City is still awaiting the arrival of FEMA before reconstruction permits can be issued. “We have not been able to confirm a date or time as to when the FEMA Assessment Team will be in Bridge City,” said Mayor David Rutledge. “Until FEMA arrives no reconstruction permits can be issued until flood zones can be verified and FEMA allow...
TEN DIED—5,000 RESCUED IN COUNTY For several days Hurricane Harvey, that entered Texas east of Corpus Christi, couldn’t find a low pressure path to move on north. It maundered around in a weird spin that took it back to the Gulf where its eye entered between the Sabine River and Holly Beach, in Louisiana. No storm before had ever affected such a wide area. Harvey dropped from 40 inches to 55 inches of rain from Corpus to Lake Charles. Areas that had not flooded before were turned into lakes. Many homes destroyed by the surge...
