Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Debbie Schamber - For The Record The killer of 31-year-old Danny Gray, an Orange Police Officer killed in the line of duty in June 1974 will not be getting out of prison anytime soon. The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole denied parole for Billy Wayne Dowden,79, and the next review will be in 2021. Billy Ray Dowden was given a life sentence in the ground breaking case. Although he was not the shooter, it was ruled Gray was murdered because of the actions of Billy Ray Dowden,...
Dave Rogers _ For The Record Bridge City’s eighth annual Christmas Light Parade is set for Saturday, Dec. 3 and the sponsoring Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is accepting applications for parade entrants. The one-mile procession down West Roundbunch Road from the First Baptist Church Bridge City to Bridge City Elementary begins at 6 p.m. It will be headed by parade marshals from the Bridge City Police and Fire Departments as well as Acadian Ambulance and word is a certain c...
Daver Rogers - For The Record Bridge City High grad Matt Bryant became the Atlanta Falcons’ all-time kick scorer in last Sunday’s National Football League game against Green Bay. With 4:28 left in the first quarter of Sunday’s contest against Green Bay, Matt Bryantlink broke Morten Andersen’s franchise record in points by notching his 807th point as a Falcon. It took Bryant 103 games to reach that mark; Andersen gained 806 points in 124 contests. “It’d be awesome,” B...
No trend watcher would be foolish enough to predict Orange County changing from red to blue in next Tuesday’s presidential election. But a woman can dream, can’t she? Deborah Mitchell, Orange County Democratic Party chair, has been enjoying recent speculation that Hillary Clinton could become the first Democratic presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter in 1976 to win Texas’ electoral votes, now numbered at 38. “If Texas doesn’t turn blue, I think it’ll turn purple,” sh...
