Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Bridge City ISD recognized students from Bridge City Intermediate and Bridge City Elementary schools who won local UIL academics awards at their Tuesday night meeting. Categories included spelling, mathematics, reading, writing, chess, numbers sense, maps, charts and graphs, listening and dictionary skills. First- through sixth-place finishers were honored....
Come for the pancakes. Make a commitment for the kids. The Bridge City ISD Education Foundation is hosting an Alumni Pancake Breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 9 in the Bridge City High School Cafeteria. It’s the first official fundraiser for the BCISD Education Foundation, local citizens aiming to support BCISD faculty and students. Friday, Oct. 8 is Bridge City’s homecoming football game against Hardin-Jefferson. Wake up Saturday, come out and visit with fel...
Orange County will hold open deliberations for a new bargaining agreement between the county, its Sheriff, Lane Mooney, and the Sheriff's Office deputies' association at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22 in the commissioners courtroom. The three sides have been operating under a collective bargaining agreement created in 2009 and only partially amended since because the deputies refuse to give in on two primary features of the CBA. At the same time, the deputies agreed to a "me too"...
In 1962, the year I was first elected to the Legislature, John Connally was elected governor in a very close Democratic Primary. He succeeded by narrowly defeating a young candidate named Don Yarborough. Connally, with his good looks and handsome demeanor looked the part of a governor. Ability to perform is a great benefit in the political arena. He majored in drama while at the University of Texas undergraduate school which served him well. He went on to law school and...
SEPTEMBER 22 FIRST DAY OF FALL Today begins the fall season here in Southeast Texas. There is not much distinction between the four seasons; however, this week we are seeing fall like weather, cool, with low humidity. Hopefully, we don’t have anymore storms to dodge. My guess is if a storm doesn’t come into the Gulf in the next 12 to 15 days, it’s a good chance we have dodged the bullet. Gulf waters will cool and high pressure is expected most of October. Usually by this...
Once common, the Texas horned lizard is now one of more than 1,300 species of concern across the state. But there is good news for the little “horned toad.” Today, a coalition of zoos and wildlife scientists released 204 captive-raised hatchlings into the wild (100 of them hatched at the Fort Worth Zoo), and this follows new evidence this year that previously released lizards are now reproducing. Meanwhile, a landmark bipartisan proposal now moving through Congress, the Recove...
As the days grow shorter and the temperatures becomes slightly more tolerable it is plain to see that fall and hunting season are just around the corner. For local hunters, the first taste of hunting season came in the form of the opening of teal season which was followed shortly by the south zone opener for dove hunters. Wing shooters and water fowlers aside, the most anticipated event here at home as well as all over the state will be the opening of deer season. On October 2...
It’s almost impossible to project how the 32 National Football League teams will fare for the 2021 season after only two games, but it’s much easier seeing where many of the franchises are headed after two weeks. Everybody and their brother know where the Houston Texans will be after the season ends in early January—in front of their televisions watching the good teams compete for the Super Bowl during the playoffs. They lost their first game of the season 31-21 at Cleve...
Games This Week WEST ORANGE-STARK over HAMSHIRE-FANNETT—Two of the better teams in District 11-4A-II are opening up league play where the games really count. The Longhorns come to Dan Hooks Stadium with a nifty 3-1 pre-district record and should give the Mustangs all they can handle as the defend their district championships. LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE over HOUSTON KINKAID—The Battlin’ Bears need this game and next week’s meeting with Jasper to get ready for District 10-4A-I...
Cooler days and lighter winds have contributed to more “catching”, both in Sabine Lake and up at Toledo Bend. Even when salinity, water clarity and good tide changes all line up on Sabine Lake, there is still no substitute for light winds. Fishing where you “want to fish” rather than where you “have to fish”, is a critical factor regardless of conditions. The best bite in the world is useless when white caps are rolling across the flooded grass you hoped to fish. And, while...
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) biologists say that 2021-22 is expected to be a white-tailed deer season for the books. Last year, the overall white-tailed deer population was estimated to be 5.4 million deer. While that estimate is down from the previous two years, TPWD biologists say that if fawn recruitment predictions hold true this season, coupled with good carryover of deer from last hunting season, hunters and landowners can expect to see an increase in the...
The Orangefield High School homecoming court members are: Band Beau - Brayden Babin Band Sweetheart - Rachel Henderson Queen Candidate - Kenadie DuBois Queen Candidate - Faith Burnette Queen Candidate - Draven Crochet Queen Candidate - Ashleigh Greenwood Junior Class Representative - Riley Fuller Sophomore Class Representative - Georgia Jones Freshman Class Representative - Natalie Black Football Sweetheart - Breea Hubbard Football Beau - Coby Colter...
The Orange Chapter of AAUW will launch its annual Book-Ins program with a meeting on Tuesday, September 28 at 7:00 p.m., using primarily the video conferencing platform of Zoom. Attorney John Cash Smith will lead the book discussion of “Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850” by Andrew J. Torget. In Book-Ins meetings, the AAUW members gather monthly to discuss a selected book, led by a member or guest reviewer who provides insights. “Seeds of Empire” examines the evoluti...
The William Diamond Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution celebrated Constitution week along with their chapter's 50th Anniversary on Saturday, September 18 at the Old Orange Cafe. Guest speaker, Krispen Walker, Assistant District Attorney in Orange spoke on the Constitution and Victim's Rights. Elberta Herman, chapter Regent presided over the annual luncheon and representing Texas was District V Director, Elizabeth Jones from Heritage Trails chapter....
This week Hurricane Nicholas made landfall, impacting the coastal region of Southeast Texas and neighboring counties. Though the storm hit as a hurricane, it was later downgraded to a tropical storm and then to tropical depression. There are 19 counties under the disaster declaration and five are in Senate District 3, including Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Newton, and Orange Counties. If you have been affected by Hurricane Nicholas, please complete the Self Reporting Damage Survey found on Texas Department of Emergency...
The Apostle Paul used his own life to illustrate God's amazing grace. He wrote in Romans 7:24-25 under the inspiration of God, "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." In I Timothy 2:15, Paul spoke clearly of his own unworthiness, calling himself the chiefest of sinners. It says, "This is a faithful saying, a...
