Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The 12th Annual Orange Christian Services Golf Fundraiser will be on Saturday, October 7 at Sunset Grove Country Club in Orange. The format will be a four-person team scramble and you can select your own team.The entry fee is $300 per team which does not include the cart fee, which is $25 per golfer. Prizes will be awarded for the longest drive, closest to the pin on the Par 3’s, door prizes and team prizes. The tournament field will be limited to 18 teams and is open to both men and women golfers, according to Tournament C...
Since I presented a column 10 years ago, the West Orange-Stark Mustangs football program has been a huge success since the two high schools—West Orange and Lutcher Stark—merged in 1977. Amazingly, during the merged school’s 40 years of existence, there have been only THREE head coaches for the Mustangs—Steve McCarty, Dan Hooks and their present coach Cornel Thompson--have held the reins of the Mustangs football fortune. I ran into McCarty 10 years ago at a fast-pitch softball tournament where we both were watching our res...
Games This Week WEST ORANGE-STARK over SILSBEE—The Tigers should give the Mustangs their most difficult challenge of the young 2017 season. The huge offensive statistics that the ‘Stangs rolled up in the first two games should be a bit harder to attain against this good Silsbee team. WO-S also wants to protect its 29-game winning streak. CROSBY over LITTLE CYPRESS-MAURICEVILLE—The Bears had a great performance Friday night against the Orangefield Bobcats, but this bunch from Crosby comes in with some jaw-dropping stati...
Orange County Judge Stephen Brint Carlton, left, and Orange Mayor Jimmy Sims visit with reporters during a Monday morning tour of the new tent shelter at the Orange boat ramp. A total of 39 Orange County residents took shelter in the air-conditioned shelter opened Monday by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through one of its top shelter contractors, BCFS. The transitional shelter, located at the city of Orange boat ramp, can hold up to 250 people, said Kevin...
Courtesy photo Comedian and Texas-native Bill Engvall returns to Southwest Louisiana for a performance at 8:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 29 at the Golden Nugget Casino in Lake Charles, La. Tickets start at $45 for ages 21 and older only and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets. Entertainment for the week By Tommy Mann Jr. The Record A solid schedule of live entertainment is on tap this coming week, including comedy, community theater and live music. Find what you might...
Dalton Kinsley was pushing a shopping cart full of bottled water and small bags of fruit across the parking lot when we paused to chat.“I don’t even want to know how good or bad the fishing is,” said Kinsley through a half smile.“My boat is fine, but I can’t even get it out of the driveway for all of the debris stacked on the curbs in our neighborhood!” “There would be a divorce on top of everything else anyway if Carol Ann even saw the truck backed up like I might be going fishing.“We had a world of friends and relatives r...
Mattie Lou Slaughter Huckabay of Bridge City, Texas passed away Sunday, September 24, 2017 at The Meadows Nursing Home in Orange, Texas. Mattie Lou was born October 17, 1917 in Port Arthur, Texas to parents Clayburn G. Baker and Myrtle I. Slaughter Baker. Mattie Lou graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1935 and then Port Arthur College where she met Willie B. Huckabay. They married when he returned from WWII. She worked as a switchboard operator at the Texas Company...
Doris Faye Dagley Duncan passed away peacefully in her home in Orange, Texas, in the early hours of Monday, September 25, 2017, surrounded by her loving family at the age of 87. She was born to Bertha and Cecil Dagley in Leroy, Colorado on December 2, 1929. She was the youngest of five children and is preceded in death by her siblings Vernon Wise, Kenneth Dagley, Jay Dagley, and Lois Jean Coakley. Doris survived polio in 1947, and after completing her studies in Occupational T...
BCISD would like to thank our local Wal-Mart for their generous donation of a variety of school supplies that students my need that were effected by the storm. Pictured are students-Jackson Ellis, Corbin Sterling, Paisleigh Granger. and Paisleigh Dixon....
