Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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While fears have surfaced nationally that computer hackers could affect the outcome of the Nov. 8 Presidential and General Election, Orange County voters needn’t worry about their ballots. That’s because the county still uses paper ballots that are counted by hand. “It would cost about $600,000 to transfer to electronic from paper, and this county has not the funds for that,” said Tina Barrow, elections administrator for the county. “The paper ballots do well.” Early votin...
Dave Rogers-For The Record The Cowboy Church of Orange County hosts its annual Professional Rodeo Friday and Saturday night at its arena at 673 FM 1078, Orange. Show times are 7:30 p.m. both nights. Admission is $5 for youngsters aged 5-15, $10 for all 16 and over, and children 4 and under get in for free. SYJ Productions presents junior and senior bull riding, barrel racing, team roping, calf roping and bronc riding. For the kids, there will be mutton busting, sheep scramble...
Army National Guard recruiter Sgt. Salmin Roebuck help Bridge City senior Alex Garrison get ready for a photo shoot at Bridge City High School. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Roger They’re in the Army now. And they’re on the Student Council. They’re in the National Honor Society and the Spanish Club. On the football team and the basketball team. And in the middle of all the things high school students do, Bridge City High School students Ben Moore and Alex Garrison enlisted in the Texas...
They ended Bridge City’s Decade of Domination. Little Cypress-Mauriceville teammates stuck close to super sophomore Eli Peveto Tuesday morning at Claiborne West Park and together, the Bears won the District 22-4A cross country title. Bridge City had won nine straight district titles, though not all came in the same district as LC-M. With Ruben Valencia’s sixth-place finish their best, Bridge City’s boys placed third this time. Silsbee was second to LC-M in the hot and humid...
Its biggest scoring outburst since Labor Day carried Bridge City’s football team into Friday night’s District 10-4A Division I showdown with Silsbee. Meanwhile, Little Cypress-Mauriceville tries to shake off being on the wrong end of that 54-28 outcome last week to ready for Friday’s trip to play Huffman Hargrave. “People try to make this out as a showdown because they’re 2-0 in district and we’re 2-0,” BC coach Dwayne DuBois said of his team’s home game against Silsbee...
MUSTANG INSIDER - Meri Elen Jacobs The Mustangs stormed into Sour Lake Friday night and beat Hardin Jefferson, 62-0, in Hawk Stadium, upping their shutout number to six for the season. The offense finished the game with 389 total yards and the defense held the Hawks to 16 total yards and six first downs. “I thought that our guys played as hard as we asked them to,” Head Coach Cornel Thompson said. “We executed on offense and defense had a pretty dang good night. We made plays...
Capt. Chuck Uzzle For the Record I have no idea why we as anglers are constantly trying to complicate things, always re-inventing the wheel and adding corners. In our never ending quest to catch more and bigger fish we often stray down the path which we think leads to discovery only to find that out that if we had just read the street signs we’d be in much better shape. Over the years it seems like we have become so detailed and specific that the average fisherman suffers from “paralysis by analysis”. Fishing reports have...
Dave Roger - For The Record The Orangefield Bobcats’ sprint to the finish begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday night when Hamshire-Fannett visits F.L. McLain Stadium for a District 12-4A Division II football game. And the Bobcats hope the sprint includes a stop in the playoffs. Orangefield, coming off a bye week, is 3-4 overall and 0-1 in district. With four playoff berths at stake in a five-team league, the Bobcats might clinch a trip to the postseason by winning just one of their t...
Debby Schamber-For The Record Michal Davis, 38, has been returned to the Orange County Jail after he violated the terms of his bond. Davis initally was charged with intoxication manslaughter in May when the pickup truck he was driving reportedly left the roadway and struck 77-year-old Jerry Campbell as he was cleaning debris along the fence line in front of his residence located on Highway 105 near Arrington Lane in Orange County. After the wreck Davis walked about 200 yards...
Dave Rogers-For the Record Little Cypress-Mauriceville Consolidated school district officially received its 14th straight top award from the state’s school financial accountability rating system during this month's monthly school board meeting. But the score of 90 from the Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST) was accompanied by a warning from Greg Perry, LC-M’s assistant superintendent. Perry pointed out that the district’s only deductions from a perfect 100 s...
