Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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SUPER BOWL LIV WILL OVERSHADOW GROUND HOG’S APPEARANCE For as many years as one can remember, February 2 has always belonged to the ground hog seeing his shadow so folks can plan for six more weeks of winter weather. The winter weather will feel like summertime Sunday when Super Bowl LIV kicks off at 5:38 p.m. in toasty-warm Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It can be seen on Fox TV. Strangely, the Kansas City Chiefs still are favored to win over San Francisco by a single point. I predicted the Chiefs’ odds wou...
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is delighted to announce that Karen Morgan, Director of Finance for the City of Bridge City, has been named December Employee of the Month. Karen accepted her award from Ambassador/Board Member Lucy Fields, City Council Member, at the chamber’s January Networking Coffee hosted by Orangefield ISD. Karen received gifts and gift certificates from the following businesses: Energy Country Ford, Sabine Federal Credit Union, Total Impressions, Dupu...
Orange County tournament fishermen have enjoyed an incredible start to 2020 thus far.Last week veteran FLW pro, Tommy Dickerson finished second on Rayburn and added another $30,000 to the $300,000 career earnings he has amassed on the FLW circuit. More important than the big pay day, Dickerson’s second place finish earned him an early qualification for the year-end championship event.Rayburn has been slow to give up the usual numbers of heavy weight pre-spawn bass that are game changers thus far, but the Orange pro put t...
Judge Janice Margaret Gauthier Menard, 80, of Bridge City, Texas, passed away on January 27, 2020, surrounded by her family in Port Arthur, Texas. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, January 31, 2020, at St. Henry Catholic Church in Bridge City. Officiating will be Father Steve Leger. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens in Orange. Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., with a Rosary recited at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, at Claybar...
Photo: Jack Tindel III, left, and Brett Fregia of Lamar State College-Orange finished seventh of 250 teams in last weekend’s BASS Collegiate fishing tournament at Toledo Bend. They qualified for the BASS Collegiate Nationals this summer. Dave Rogers / For The Record Not bad for openers. Lamar State College Orange’s Gators fishing team qualified for nationals in its first tournament of the 2020 season. The duo of Brett Fregia and Jack Tindel III placed seventh out of 250 two-ma...
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that Golden Triangle Family Care Center has been named Business of the Month for January 2020. Debbie Khan, Practice Manager, accepted the award from Ambassador/Board Member Elyse Thibodeaux, Owner of Tiger Rock Martial Arts of Bridge City, at the chamber’s January Networking Coffee hosted by Orangefield ISD. The Golden Triangle Family Care Center received an acrylic award sponsored by Energy Country Ford and gifts f...
BOLTON PROVES TRUMP GUILTY AS CHARGED President Donald Trump’s legal team was on course to a “rush for acquittal” when they were faced with a leaked draft of Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton’s book. Bolton confirms that Trump told him he planned to continue to withhold nearly $400 million in military aid for Ukraine until their president announced an investigation into political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Bolton collaborated a central piece of the charges against Trump. Three Republica...
Dave Rogers / For The Record At 40 years of age, Sam Carpenter, Jr., looks like he could still run it up the middle for one of the football teams he used to play for. But the longtime City of West Orange policeman says if he’s elected Constable for Orange County Precinct 3, “I’ll be one of the oldest constables in the county.” To be elected, Carpenter must beat Brad Frye, Bridge City’s assistant police chief in the Republican primary election March 3. Frye, who graduated...
Dave Rogers / For The Record Running for a high-paying and powerful office in a contested county-wide election ain’t cheap, as Orange County election campaign filings point out. Candidates for Sheriff, County Judge and the 163rd District Court raised more than $60,000 collectively for their campaigns and spent more than $50,000, according to their Jan. 15 reports. Rob Strause, a sheriff’s deputy seeking to replace retiring Sheriff Keith Merritt in a job that pays $106,080 per...
Dave Rogers / For The Record Cory Mitchell is making his second straight run for Bridge City Independent School District board, filing for the Place 7 seat held for the past 15 years by Mark Anderson. The election, as well as those for all area city councils and school boards – except for Orangefield – will be held May 2. Filing for places on the ballot continue through Feb. 14. Orangefield holds school board elections in November. Mitchell was the first non-incumbent to register to run for the election. A process ope...
Photo: Thera Celestine, director of community and workforce development at Lamar State College Orange, stands next to the custom process trainer purchased with a grant from Texas Workforce Commission. Dave Rogers / For The Record The grant writers at Lamar State College Orange have been busy. And successful. The school welcomed Aaron Demerson, commissioner of the Texas Workforce Commission on Thursday, Jan. 23 to join in a celebration to celebrate two grants from TWC totaling...
Penny LeLeux For The Record Growing up in Orangefield, starting a church was nothing Johnny Asevedo saw in his future. “I was a drug addict and alcoholic,” he said, referring to his teen and early adult years. “I was eating about 12 Xanax a day, drinking all day, smoking all day.” He said it got to a point he knew he needed to stop and didn’t know how. He asked God for deliverance from his addictions. “Like that,” he snaps his fingers, “it was gone. Not a single urge, no...
Photo: Orangefield’s school board named assistant superintendent Shaun McAlpin “lone finalist” to be promoted to the top job on Jan. 21. State law requires a 21-day waiting period before he can be hired as superintendent. Dave Rogers / For The Record The Orangefield school board looked at 19 vetted applicants to be its new school superintendent, interviewed five of them and chose Shaun McAlpin. McAlpin, 41, is a 1996 Orangefield High grad who has worked for Orangefield schoo...
