Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Sue Repasky of Bridge City lost a mighty oak tree to Hurricane Laura last week but it spared the cross in the front yard and became a viral sensation for volunteers from the Liberty Baptist Church. Her late husband, John, planted the oak more than 65 years ago, she said. RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn...
“Why not?” is the answer Cord Tucker gives when asked why he wanted to become a nurse. It’s representative of the Lamar State College Orange nursing students of 2020, a year that will be forever remembered by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic that has confounded scientists and shut down economies across the globe. It also emphasized the constant need for more and more nurses on the front line in the healthcare community. “In my opinion,” continues Tucker, a third-gen...
Games This Week HIGH SCHOOL WEST ORANGE-STARK at JASPER—Cancelled by Hurricane Laura. LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE-CARTHAGE—Canceled. BRIDGE CITY-HUFFMAN—Canceled. ORANGEFIELD OVER LIVINGSTON—The Bobcats pick up where they left off last year. While the hosting Lions do the same. VIDOR over BRAZOSPORT—The Pirates get the 2020 abbreviated season off on the right foot. COLLEGE Miami over UAB (Thursday); West Virginia over Eastern Kentucky, Appalachian State over Charlotte...
4 NFL SEASON OPENS TOMORROW If the National Football League’s 2020 season wasn’t beginning tomorrow at Kansas City, many of the cities with smaller franchises would be in for a huge financial hit. What I’m referring to is cities with franchises like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks, Tennessee Titans, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals, Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Cougars, Indianapolis Colts and even the Green Bay Packers would fall deepl...
THE AFTERMATH OF LAURA Many citizens find themselves surround by destruction around their homes and at best a lot of clean up. I find myself in both. Some people have done a great job putting their places back in shape. I’m still waiting on an adjuster, due to come by on Saturday. I have fought hurricanes all my life, going back to 1939, in an Ike type surge and many others after. Twelve years ago for Ike I was much younger and when you’re not old and in good health, sto...
cut: Local hunters have already begun brushing blinds in preparation for the teal season opener this weekend. cut: Local hunters need to take precautions during teal season as its prime time for snakes, gators and mosquitoes 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 2020-21 waterfowl hunting season officially gets underway. The teal season opener has become a real gathering of...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville and West Orange-Cove announced Friday evening that their primary and secondary schools will not be able to hold class for at least another week because of damage done by Hurricane Laura. Barring discovery of further problems, Monday, Sept. 14 should see all area schools returning to the mission of education as much as is possible under the still-with-us COVID-19 pandemic, which first affected area schools in mid-March. Bridge City public schools...
The citizens talked and County Judge John Gothia listened. The proposed budget he submitted during Tuesday afternoon's required public budget hearing was based, he said, on no raise in the tax rate. "Based on the public hearing, we had no support for those proposed projects," he said of several million dollars of drainage improvements and upgrades for county road and election equipment he proposed, "so we did not use the .587 rate we had proposed. "We can keep our rate at...
Orange County Environmental Health Department is reminding citizens to practice food safety during the recovery of Hurricane Laura and the continued COVID-19 pandemic. Food Safety should be a top priority for all retail food service establishments as well as local churches and non-profit groups that are preparing meals for all that have been affected. Food Safety Tips from the Health Inspector: - Wash your hands often and every time you: 1. Go to the restroom 2. Touch your face, hair or phone 3. Take out the trash 4. Put on...
A-1 Peterson Plumbing of Orange has been named a recipient of the Better Business Bureau 2020 Torch Award for small business. The local business has been serving Orange County for over 50 years. “It is an honor to our family and to the legacy of our founders to be recognized for ethics in business by the BBB,” said Donna Peterson, owner of A-1 Peterson and Plumbing. “For 52 Years, our goal has been to treat our employees like family and our customers like friends. In that...
County Offices scheduled to reopen after Hurricane Laura County non- emergency offices slowly will resume normal business after an assessment of damages from Hurricane Laura. County offices opening back up to the public as follows: Department Statements – The 128th District Court, 260th District Court, County Court at Law and County Court at Law #2, will remain fully open and operational, subject to the emergency rules and restrictions issued by the Texas Supreme Court, C...
On Saturday, August 29th, President Trump, Governor Abbott, Senator Cruz, and several other Federal and State Officials visited SW Louisiana and SE Texas, following landfall of Hurricane Laura. During this time, Orange County officials had the opportunity to show both President Trump and Governor Abbott the hardest hit areas of Orange County, utilizing one of the Orange County Sheriff's Office Drones. The Orange County Sheriff's Office operates these drones under a COA, which...
Matt. 7:24-27 "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the...
What a week!Depending on where you live in the Orange area, Laura was rated somewhere between a minor inconvenience and a disaster.Having lost part of the roof, two bedrooms, a bathroom and the garage, it has been a tad more than an inconvenience for us thus far. Without sounding too Pollyanna, it could have been far worse as we narrowly averted a direct hit.I have friends in Creole, Cameron, Hackberry, Sulphur and Lake Charles that lost their entire residences. As far as the...
Marie Therese Dupleix Landry, age 99, of Bridge City, Texas passed away on Thursday, August 20, 2020 at The Abbey Assisted Living in Houston, Tx. Born in Youngsville, Louisiana, November 1,1920. She was the daughter of Louis Ellis Dupleix Sr. and Oleta Dupleix. Marie graduated from Southwestern Louisiana Institute in Elementary Education. She began teaching in Youngsville, La., then later in Bridge City, Texas at Hatton Elementary for 35 years. Marie was a devout Catholic and...
The debris mission is being scheduled Any flood related materials that citizens may want removed from the area must be separated into distinct categories. FEMA requirements for separation of debris and damaged material are as follows: - C & D piles – construction and demolition materials - Green Waste Piles – tree limbs, branches and cuttings. Please place the debris as the side of the road in a manner that is NOT blocking the roadway in anyway. The debris should be placed in the proper piles and also should be acc...
