Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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For The Record Don’t look for the head coach of the Navarro Panthers to say anything crazy and wind up on the West Orange-Stark bulletin board this week. You could almost hear Les Goad genuflecting to Cornel Thompson and the Mustangs over the phone Tuesday afternoon. “Well, they’re just awfully talented and have been here multiple times,” Goad said about the Mustangs, his team’s opponents in a Class 4A Division II state semifinal game at 7:30 p.m. Friday at NRG Stadium i...
For The Record Robert Rothrock remembers exactly where he was late Sunday afternoon Dec. 7, 1941, when he heard about the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor. “Me and some kids had been down to the creek and we were (walking) on the Cotton Belt Railroad tracks coming home,” says the 91-year-old Little Cypress resident, a native of Fort Worth. “This boy I was with had two little sisters and they came and told us they heard it on the radio.” Alice, Rothrock’s wife, was just 7 an...
