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  • OHS Family Career and Community Leaders of America Selects Officers

    Updated Sep 7, 2021

    Orangefield High School has selected FCCLA (Family Career and Community Leaders of America) officers for 2021-2022. L-R - Breea Hubbard, Historian Ashleigh Greenwood and Kaydance Whitfield, Co- Presidents Mary Wernig, Vice President Asia Tran, Secretary The sponsor is Kimberly Spears....

  • WOS Mustangs beat LCM in Orange Bowl

    Updated Sep 7, 2021

    The West Orange Stark Mustangs beat LCM 39-20 in the Orange Bowl on Friday night....

  • Legendary Texas Lawyer Walter Umphrey, Founder of Provost Umphrey, Dies at Age 85 

    Updated Sep 7, 2021

    Legendary lawyer and philanthropist, Walter Umphrey, who led the Texas trial team that secured billions in a landmark settlement with Big Tobacco and who donated millions of dollars to charitable causes over the course of his lifetime, has passed away. The 85-year-old died of natural causes in Beaumont, Texas on September 7, 2021. "Walter Umphrey was more than just a lawyer," said Joe Fisher, Managing Partner of Provost Umphrey, the law firm Mr. Umphrey co-founded. "He was a...

  • Applications Being Accepted for Texas Game Warden Cadet Class

    Updated Sep 7, 2021

    The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is currently accepting applications for their 65th Texas Game Warden Cadet class. As fully commissioned peace officers, game wardens are responsible for the enforcement of Texas laws across the state including water safety, natural resource protection and environmental management. Unconstrained by city or county jurisdictions, Texas Game Wardens patrol the state’s natural waterways, oversee hunting and fishing regulation, and often support local landowners. More widely known, a...

  • Teal season opens for anxious waterfowl hunters

    Capt. Chuck Uzzle, For the Record|Updated Sep 7, 2021

    In what has become a highly anticipated yearly ritual, wingshooters from all over Texas will make there way to the fields and marshes as the 2021-2022 waterfowl hunting season officially gets underway Saturday. The teal season opener has become a real gathering of sorts, almost a social get together if you will. Hunters eagerly awaiting each new hunting season head to the fields for their first taste of what is in store and this one looks promising thanks to some recent...

  • LSCO host new Lamar University President, Dr. Jaime Taylor

    Updated Sep 7, 2021

    Dr. Tom Johnson, President of Lamar State College Orange (LSCO), and his wife, Karen Johnson, hosted new Lamar University President Dr. Jaime Taylor and his wife, Stacy Taylor, on the campus of Lamar State College Orange, today, for Dr. Taylor's first official visit to LSCO. "We couldn't be more thrilled that Dr. Taylor has joined us in Southeast Texas to transform lives through education. Dr. Taylor is a product of a two-year school like myself, and has shared his passion...

  • When The Storm Becomes Fearful

    Pastor Charles Empey, For the Record|Updated Sep 7, 2021

    Luke 8:23-25 "But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy. And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm. And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even th...

  • 6th Annual Michael Hoke Memorial Outdoor Awareness for Kids

    Updated Sep 7, 2021

    6th Annual Michael Hoke Memorial Outdoor Awareness for Kids The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension office is having The 6th Annual Michael Hoke Memorial Outdoor Awareness for Kids. This program teaches kids about the outdoors with activities like Camp Cooking, Duck Dog Demo, Nature Trails, how to identify Skulls and Furs, and other activities. It is for ages 8 to 14 and is on September 18th from 9 am to 2 pm with check-in starting at 8:30. Cost of this program is $10. The location will be at Claiborne West Park at 4105 North St,...