Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Three years ago after the Houston Astros stumbled through their third straight season of 100 or more losses, a writer for a popular sports magazine wrote a column stating the team would get to the World Series in 2017. Men in white coats carrying butterfly nets and straight jacket straps went on an expedition trying to find this lunatic and capture him before he made any other “idiotic” statements. Well, this columnist probably could put Nostradamus to shame with his bold prediction now that Houston is only three playoff ser...
WEST ORANGE-STARK over NACOGDOCHES KENNEDALE—I lied last week when I said Silsbee would be the toughest team the Mustangs will face in the regular season. This Kennedale outfit is undefeated in four games and is ranked No. 6 in Class 4A. It should be a classic battle between No. 2 and No. 6. The ‘Stangs had better play better than they did for three quarters at Silsbee Friday night or their 30-game winning streak could come to a screeching halt. DIBOLL over ORANGEFIELD—The Bobcats are hosting a team that is 3-1 so far this...
Photo by Tommy Mann Jr. Classic rock cover band Mixx Fixxer will perform at Rikenjaks South Stret in Vidor on Saturday, Oct. 7, for ages 21 and older. Admission is charged at the door. Entertainment for the week By Tommy Mann Jr. The Record Fall is in full swing and festival season begins this week with the always popular Texas Rice Festival in Winnie, arguably the most popular festival in the region every autumn. There are great local and national act shows across the region...
The Record Get ready for some quality fun this October in downtown Beaumont. The City of Beaumont presents Rocktoberfest on Friday, Oct. 27, at the Jefferson Theatre in downtown Beaumont. Tickets are $10 each for the event and the gates open at 5:30 p.m. This year’s event, which will be held indoors and outdoors, will feature live music by Cranford Hollow and will be followed by a showing of the cult classic movie, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at 9 p.m. The event will be held rain or shine and will feature a variety of be...
Betty Marie Pace Peveto, 79, of Orange, Texas, passed away on August 31, 2017, in Groves, Texas. A memorial service will be held 2:00 pm, Sunday, October 8, 2017 at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. The family will receive guests beginning at 1:00 pm. Born in Orange, Texas, on June 14, 1938, Betty was the daughter of John Henry Kirby Pace and Esther (LeBlanc) Pace. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Mauriceville and worked as a hairdresser. Betty was an excellent...
It wasn’t the first bass I had ever caught on a She Dog, a small topwater lure designed to fool trout and redfish, but it was the first bass I have ever caught that far south in Sabine Lake.After catching and releasing three slot redfish just south of Madam Johnson Bayou, a fourteen inch bass joined in the fray. There was no doubt that it was a marsh bass that had extended his or her hunting grounds into Sabine lake, but this fish was eight hundred yards off shore chasing small shad.It was the only bass we caught, but how m...
Photo: A debris hauler in Pinehurst Monday uses a grapple truck to pick up ugly leftovers from Tropical Storm Harvey. (Courtesy photo) Dave Rogers For The Record They were talking trash at Orange County Commissioners’ Court Tuesday and there’s plenty of it to go around. But the court considered a number of matters at its first weekly session of the 2017-18 fiscal year, including one that could affect everyone’s bottom line one way or the other. Commissioners set a date of Tues...
Randy Higgs’ truck, left, was joined by another one nearly in the same spot off FM 1442 sometime on the night of Aug. 29-30. (Photo courtesy Ron Huebel) Dave Rogers For The Record When Ron Huebel woke up Tuesday, Aug. 29, his plans were to ride out Tropical Storm Harvey in the safety of his own home. But God, he believes, had other plans. Before the day was over, he and son Chris Huebel had plucked plant worker Randy Higgs of Mississippi from his sinking pickup truck just a...
Photo: World War II veteran Robert Rothrock, 91, was pulled from his floating car by members of the Cajun Navy on Aug. 30. Dave Rogers For The Record More than 70 years ago, Robert Rothrock swam for his life after his landing craft sunk in choppy seas near New Zealand. On Aug. 30, the 91-year-old World War II veteran was back in the deep – but this time in his car. Rothrock was one of hundreds of Orange County residents who were either stalled out or swept away by the f...
Kinta Kay Berlinger, 43, of Orange, Texas, passed away suddenly on Friday, September, 29, 2017. Memorial service for Kinta will be held on Friday, October 6, 2017, at Dorman Funeral Home, at 6:00 PM; Kevin Trinkle officiating. A gathering of family and friends will be held prior to the memorial service on Friday, October 6, 2017, from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, at Dorman Funeral Home. On Thursday, May 9, 1974, Kinta was born in Port Arthur, Texas, to mother, Jennifer Wiggins and f...
