Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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T.W. Permenter says it won't be the same without seeing Dan Mohon out and about. Pinehurst City Council reluctantly accepted Mohon's resignation as mayor Tuesday night and voted to replace him in that office by promoting the Mayor Pro-Tem, Permenter. "At this time, it is with a heavy heart that I, a great friend of Dan, ask for a motion to accept his resignation." Mohon is known to has been undergoing cancer treatments for some time. He said he in his letter of resignation...
Entertainer Tex Ritter got a park in downtown Nederland. Football coach Bum Phillips got a statue. And Nederland native Walter "Buddy Davis" probably had the best record of them all. "I think he deserves a statue in downtown Nederland, but Bum Phillips took that spot," Shaun Davis said of his dad, who died at 89 years of age on Nov. 17. "But my dad was not the kind that he'd worry about something like that." Buddy Davis won an Olympic gold medal as a high jumper in 1952 and...
Orange County officials are making preparation for the arrival of vaccine kits for the COVID-19 virus, County Judge John Gothia said after Tuesday's Commissioners' Court meeting. But don't expect to have vaccines available in the county until late December or early 2021. And they won't be available to the general public until after first responders, the elderly and others with underlying health issues have received the vaccinations. The final plan for the first distribution...
Orange County approved a new property tax abatement policy that should make local workers and suppliers smile. Under the policy, a company that is granted a tax abatement by the county for a new or expanded operation is expected to hire more local laborers and give preference and priority to local manufacturers, suppliers vendors and contractors – except where it’s not reasonably possible. “This gives our local suppliers and vendors a better opportunity to compete for the w...
The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Education Foundation, Inc. received a donation of $1,753.00 from the joint Little Cypress High School/Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School reunion group on Thursday, November 19. The Reunion classes of 1950 through 1978 have generously donated to the Foundation following each of their reunions for several years. According to Dale Clark Carlton, LC alum and past president of the LCM Education Foundation, Inc., when first year reunion...
Robyn Lovett, student council advisor at Orangefield Junior High recently was named the Texas Association of Student Councils (TASC) Middle Level Advisor of the Year at the TASC Middle Level Annual Conference November 14, 2020. Lovett is an extremely active student council advisor who has guided her council to numerous recognitions including Outstanding Student Council in 2014-17 and again in 2019. Orangefield Junior High School has also been recognized for Community Service...
The Bridge City/ Orangefield Rotary Club awarded Bailey McCurry the November Rotary Bridge City Student of the Month. Pictured are Bubba McCurry - parent, Tim Woolley - Principal, Bailey McCurry - Student, Todd Lintzen - Superintendent, Kristen McCurry - Parent, Courtney Arkeen - Rotary President, Nicole Harris - Counselor....
The Bridge City /Orangefield Rotary Club Awarded Kayla Moore Orangefield November Student of the Month. Pictured are Ray Wrinkle, Principal, Britni Briggs, Counselor, Kayla Moore, Student, Crissa Bonnin, Counselor, Julie Moore, Parent, Courtney Arkeen, Rotary President, Dean Moore, Parent....
Observe the beauty of Christmas art during our Lunch & Look @ Home: The Nativity in Art program on Friday, December 11, 2020 from Noon to 1:00 p.m. Take a lunch break at your home or office and virtually visit the Stark Museum of Art using the Zoom platform. Curator Sarah E. Boehme will discuss the Boehm Nativity, supplemented with a slide talk on the Christmas story in art. Participants will learn about the origins of the crèche, the Nativity in sculptural form. The talk...
I'm optimistic that by next Thanksgiving the times we are living today will seem like a bad nightmare. We will wake from this bad dream, on a bright new day. We will still be struggling to leave this past behind but in time the abscess will subside. Here at home we will still have to take care of our own. Our basic lives must be cared for. We have children to raise and to ensure they get a good, competitive education in our own school yards. This brings me to something I've be...
Acts 20:35 "…remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive." Who else but Jesus can say such a thing with the clearest of conscience that that is exactly what He did. He gave us creation and our individual lives. He gave Himself as the sacrifice of all from sin and condemnation who would believe. He literally has given and continues to give His all for those in His Kingdom, the true believers. Thanksgiving Day is the time to e...
THOUGHTS AT THANKSGIVING Let us go forth to... Count our blessings, instead of our crosses. Count our gains, instead of our loses. Count our joys, instead of our woes. Count our friends, instead of our foes. Count our smiles, instead of our tears. Count our courage, instead of our fears. Count our full years, instead of our lean. Count our kind deeds, instead of our mean. Count our health, instead of our wealth. Count on God, instead of ourselves. With that I embark on...
Big Thicket National Preserve issues two temporarily closures of approximately 566 acres in the center of the 10,688-acre Big Sandy Creek Unit hunting area. Starting December 4, 2020 and ending on December 15, 2020, this closure is in place to facilitate an important resource management survey and study at these two locations. No additional hunting areas are affected by this temporary closure. All other parts of the Big Sandy Creek Unit remain open (as indicated by the...
As might be expected, the West Orange-Stark Mustangs dominated the superlative honors when coaches chose the District 11-4A, Division II All-District football team for the 2020 season. Mustangs quarterback Jerren Terrell earned Offensive Most Valuable Player after finishing with 1,226 yards, completing 72 of 133 passes with 15 touchdowns and just three interceptions during the regular season. Defensive Newcomer of the Year is Jailen Brown although he could easily have earned...
STEELERS LOOK UNBEATABLE; COWBOYS COULD WIN NFC EAST I know that when I figure out my Pro Picks on the weekly Fearless Forecast that I’ll have two automatic wins if I pick the Pittsburgh Steelers to win and the Dallas Cowboys to lose. That was true during the first half of the 2020 National Football League season, but it may not be entirely true in the second half. I believe that if the Steelers can get past tomorrow night’s meeting at Baltimore against the hot-and-cold Rav...
Regional Semifinal High School Playoff Games This Week Area Playoff Games of Interest to Southeast Texas—Carthage ( 10-0) over Salado (11-1), Yoakum (9-2) over Columbus (10-2), Omaha Pewitt (8-3) over Elysian Fields (10-2), Mart (11-0) over West Sabine (7-4), Argyle ((11-0) over Waco La Vega (10-2 ), Huffman (10-1) over Kilgore (10-1), China Spring (9-2) over Sealy (9-2),Geronimo Navarro (10-1) over Navasota (7-3), Wimberley (9-3) over Sinton (8-3), Lorena (9-2) over H...
And then there were none. After a dominating march through the 2020 high school football regular season, the West Orange-Stark Mustangs were poised to roll through the playoffs. China Spring had a different idea in mind altogether. The Mustangs fell 35-22 in the Class 4A, Region III Area round this past Friday night, ending the 2020 prep football season for Orange County as its last lone representative on the gridiron. The loss left WO-S with a final 8-1 won-loss record but th...
The first half of duck season for most Texas hunters in our area will end on Sunday and will not re-open until December 5th for the North zone and December 12th for the South zone. Reports from all along the coast were almost mirror images of one another, "either you got ducks or you don't". The birds that still remained in the area after the opening week or so got educated real fast and headed for areas with little or no hunting pressure. A few really dedicated souls who had...
Kiwanis Club of Orange announced today that the club has cancelled this year’s Christmas parade. “ We wanted to be able to host this long-standing tradition to provide a distraction and a bit of Christmas Spirit for our community. However, we have had very little applications submitted, several of our regular groups, such as school bands, will not be able to participate because of contests, and of course COVID-19 cases on the rise is quite concerning for us all”, said Shane Johns, Club President. The Clubs’ plan is to keep...
“Meet Bill and I at that little boat ramp in Bridge City at 3:00 and bring your waders. ”I didn’t even know who sent the text, but the unexpected message merited a return call at the very least.” “Hey man, this is Marler Cal and I have limited on trout up to four pounds twice this week wading the north end of your lake and today looks perfect.” I hadn’t waded in over a year so in agreeing to meet them for a quick trip, I had no intention of exercising that option. On th...
