Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Every year the Diocese of Beaumont chooses a piece of art work from a student to display on the cover of their Christmas cards. This year, Carter Claybar, a sixth grade student from St. Mary Catholic School was chosen. This card is distributed to all the schools in the diocese, parishes and throughout the state. Carter was recognized for this honor at the school Christmas program and at announcements in front of the entire student body. Cindy Claybar is the art teacher at St....
Dickie Colburn 8:47 AM (2 hours ago) to Record NEVER TAKE WARM FOR GRANTED It wasn’t until I leaned back on my 6”5” Laguna in a clumsy response to a jolting strike that all but dislodged the rod from my hands that I realized that I could no longer feel my fingers.I held on tightly as the line peeled off the reel, but I couldn’t feel the knobs on the handle and it was “Red fish 1-Dickie 0” for the first few minutes of the tug-of-war. I couldn’t tell if my clients were amazed or amused as they stood motionless in the back of t...
6 FADES INTO HISTORY Well, we’ve come to the end of another year. 2013 went by with rapid speed. The weeks and months just ran into one another. I don’t recall a year passing so fast. Maybe it’s because I kept my nose to the grindstone. I haven’t taken off any except for one short trip to Buna to visit our friend George, at David Self Tractor. He’s been too busy lately to visit. They’re putting in a new NAPA parts store. *****Nationally, we’re ending the year on a high note. The stock market is at an all-time high...
Lawrence Gilmore, 52, of Orange, passed away Friday, Dec. 20, at his home. Funeral services will be at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 28, at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Orange. Burial will follow at Hollywood Cemetery in Orange. Visitation will be from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Saturday, at the church. Born in Orange on July 13, 1961, Lawrence was the son of Leonard and Lubertha (Coleman) Gilmore. Lawrence was the groundskeeper at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens and Claybar Funeral...
As people everywhere get into the Christmas holidays and the “reason for the season,” the U.S. Supreme Court has listened to arguments and has begun debating whether the opening prayer before government meetings are constitutional. It all began when two women brought suit against Greece, New York, officials, when they objected to the monthly public sessions on government which opened with invocations. The women have said the meetings are overwhelmingly Christian in nature and...
The community of Deweyville can boast they are the first in the area to have an ethanol-free filling station. The Deweyville Conoco on Highway 12, more specifically, has been selling the 100 percent ethanol-free gasoline to the public since September according to manager, Malik Keshwani. “It’s been a benefit to all the customers. They use it in their cars, boat motors and small engines. Smaller vehicle engines have been messed up by ethanol fuel. It (ethanol-free gas...
Firefighters with the Orange Fired Dept. are on the scene of an apartment fire at Sussex Manor Apartments in the 3000 block of MacArthur Dr. Residents were being evacuated, and no injuries have been reported. The fire was reported at about 12:30 pm, Tuesday. Stay tuned to therecordlive.com for updates as they are made available....
Cowboys facing “playoffs-or-bust” situation again The 2013 National Football League season has sped by just like the Christmas shopping time did as the 17th and final week takes place this weekend.The parity that the league strives for each season appears to have come to fruition as only the American Football Conference has all of its division champions crowned going into this weekend’s final regular season action. Even one of the wild cards (Kansas City) has already been...
Judge Donald Floyd released a Beaumont jury of their duties on Monday, Dec. 23 after six days of trial. A confidential settlement was reached between the Leggio family and C.R. England, Inc. regarding the 2012 Thanksgiving Day accident that resulted in the death of Vincent and Debra Leggio, residents of Pearland. The Leggio family was represented by Joe Jamail and Provost«Umphrey attorneys Walter Umphrey and Chip Ferguson. The massive pile-up on Nov. 22, 2012 involved over 100 vehicles and resulted in over 80 injuries,...
