Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Seventy-seven percent of Lamar State College Orange's 190 Fall 2021 graduates are first-generation college students. That figure is music to the ears of Dr. Tom Johnson, the school's president. Johnson and his siblings were the first in their family to attend college and he started at a two-year institution like LSCO. A total of 270 degrees and certificates were awarded earlier this month – 124 of which were associate's degrees and 146 were certificates of completion. Nine ins...
Christmas will taste different this year for many Orange County fans of Christmas turkey. Robert Ramirez says he normally prepares 300 fried turkeys and 200 more smoked turkeys for customers. Someone else is getting that business this year. But not for long, Ramirez said. He hopes to reopen Robert's Meat Market as soon as his new equipment comes in. And, in a departure from earlier statements made after a fire in July brought his business to a halt, Ramirez says he now plans...
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM CREAUX AND I Here's hoping you have a blessed Christmas and Holiday Season. When I was a boy we would have been disappointed with the Christmastime weather. Our favorite Christmas meal was fried, wild rabbit. No one could season and fry rabbit like my Grandma., NOBODY. We didn't have rabbit until after the first heavy frost killed the parasites rabbits carry. For a big gathering, Grandma made rabbit stew in a large cast iron pot served on a bed of rice....
Susanty Roberts' background is in finance. Husband Craig Roberts has been in the car biz since he got out of the service during the Cold War. Together, they hope to bring some sizzle to Orange automobile sales with their purchase of Sabine River Ford earlier this month. The new Roberts Ford is open for business with a lot full of gleaming F-150, F-250 and F-350 pickups ready to drive out. "We're here to help the community," Susanty said, "and hope the community will help us....
I don’t have very many good memories of Christmas in my childhood. We were extremely poor, in my very early years, so I don’t recall that I ever received a store-bought gift. Sometimes I got a handmade toy but mostly a useful item like a pair of socks, maybe a new shirt or pair of church pants. Never in my early years did my family have a Christmas tree. When I was about in the eighth grade, the teacher gave me the classroom tree when school let out for the holidays and tha...
In all the major bay systems along the Texas gulf coast die hard big trout hunters are licking their lips in anticipation of finding that one truly big speckled trout of a lifetime. The late fall and winter months are regarded as the best times to pursue real wall hanger size trout, and here on Sabine lake we are no different. In years past we have seen some amazing things come our way to change the way we as anglers looked at fishing. Some or most of these ideas are not for...
If you are over 60 years old there is an additional plague attacking you rather than the current virus. I am absolutely convinced that computers were invented to drive us old folks crazy. Remember when phones were answered by humans? And the only folks with numbers were convicts? How many passwords do you have? Better yet, how many passwords do you have that you remember? Once upon a time ordering from Sear & Roebuck catalog and making phone calls was a simple matter. Now...
Saturday was one of the biggest days of our granddaughter Jennifer Whitehead's life-she was the only female graduating from Lamar University with a degree in chemical engineering. And she received it with magna cum laude honors, after making nearly all straight A's during the four years in college and all straight A's during her four years at Barbers Hill High School. The whole clan was at the Montagne Center in Beaumont for that 10 a.m. ceremony and then went to Bruno's...
The annual board meeting and dinner for the Friends of the Orange Depot will be held on Thursday, January 6, at 5:30 PM. The meeting will be at the depot located at 1210 Green Avenue. Spouses are invited to this special dinner and meeting. The newly elected president, Alicia Booker, will preside. As usual, there will be updates on Christmas season events that were held, as well as discussions on projects for the new year. All attending should respond to Rose Simar, Depot...
Young Cris had been going fishing since he was old enough to walk. Gramps, as he had called him, was raising Chris as best he could, living on a fixed income. Cris’ parents were taken from him in a car crash wen he was only six months old, and his Gramps was just like a dad to him. Gramps had lost his wife to cancer a year before Cris was born, so the two of them needed each other very much. Living within a mile of one of Texas’ largest bays, Cris enjoyed the time he and his g...
Written by Rick Reilly Sports Illustrated You can take all your Tiny Tims and your Grinches and your Miracles on Whatever Street and stuff them in your stocking. The best Christmas story is about a boxer. It starts the day in 1918 when a doctor tells a slender heavyweight named Billy Miske that his bum kidneys give him five years to live, if he's lucky. Turns out he's dying of Bright's disease. This comes as rotten news to Billy, who's only 24 years old and not half bad in the...
Bowl Games This Week Armed Forces Bowl—7 p.m. Today at Fort Worth, TX. (ESPN)—Army over Missouri. Frisco Football Classic—2:30 p.m. Thursday at Frisco, TX. (ESPN)—North Texas over Miami, O. Gasparilla Bowl—6 p.m. Thursday at Tampa, Fla. (ESPN)—Florida over Central Florida. Hawaii Bowl—7 p.m. Friday at Honolulu, HI. (ESPN)—Memphis over Hawaii. Camellia Bowl—1:30 p.m. Saturday at Montgomery, Ala. (ESPN)—Georgia State over Ball State. Quick Lane Bowl—10 a.m. Monday at Detroit, MI...
The Orange county Office of Emergency Management has announced that Covid and Antibody testing with 24 hour results will be offered at Baptist Hospital in Orange. The location is at the front entrance drive through at 608 Strickland, patients will remain in their vehicle for testing. This site will be open Monday through Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm to include Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Patients are required to bring their drivers license or identification card and if...
Hello fellow gardeners and Merry Christmas! Today I’m standing at the kitchen sink and beside me sits a steaming cup of coffee, as I peer outside the window mesmerized, once again witness to another dreary, damp overcast day. You see I’m pondering this week’s gardening article. Through the kitchen window I’m watching an abundance of leaves free-fall, suddenly whisked away at breakneck speed by an invisible force, driven without cause to the yard’s perimeter. Mounds of crisp...
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce announced that Granger Chevrolet was named Business of the Month for December 2021. Al Granger was presented the award, sponsored by Energy Country Ford, by Ambassador Maureen McAllister at the December Networking Coffee hosted by Bridge City High School. The Board has chosen Granger Chevrolet as Business of the Month for December 2021 for they have supported the Bridge City Chamber by sponsoring a table at the events. They are always well...
Luke 2:8 "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." Who are your favorite characters in the account of the birth of Jesus? The shepherds or the three Wise Men, referred to often as Kings? I'm going to say hands down most of us chose the shepherds. Why is that? For me, it is because they represented a part of the more common of society, even the poorer part of society. Jesus said that it is very difficult for a...
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce announced that Coach Cody McGuire, Employee Bridge City High School, has been named December Employee of the Month. Coach McGuire was presented his award, sponsored by Energy Country Ford, by Ambassador Candace Mulhollan, at the December Networking Coffee hosted by Bridge City High School. The Board chose Coach Cody McGuire as Employee of the Month because he goes above and beyond for our players. He has visited players at their homes to mak...
Nancy Louise Prouse, age 71 of Bridge City, Texas passed away on December 16th , 2021 in Houston, Texas. A memorial service to honor her life and memory will be held at 3:00 on Monday, December 20th at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange, Texas. Visitation will begin at 1:30 at Claybar Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Orange Forest Lawn Cemetery. Nancy was born in Carrollton, Missouri to parents Jim Franken and Gerry Stewart-Bonnin. She was a ray of sunshine and always had a...
