Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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GARRETT, BARBAY AND MOVING ON Two weekends in a row high school football has taken a blow. First the sudden death of 17-year-old Reggie Garrett, Jr. and the untimely death of Newton coach Curtis Barbay, 68, on Saturday, Sept. 25. Never before has the death of a local person drawn so much national attention as the passing of Reggie. So far the cause of death has not been officially determined. The first report didn’t show anything obviously wrong with his heart. As I write this Baylor Medical Center has been asked to do m...
This year’s Orange County Association of Retarded Citizens’ fishing tournament fundraiser is from 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, to 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 7. Prizes range from $25 to $250 – altogether a $2,700 payout with 31 winners – with the big money in divisions such as speckled trout, redfish, flounder, bass, white perch, catfish, croaker, grinnel, rough fish and gar. Only redfish from 20-27 inches are allowed. Weigh-in is at 6 p.m. Saturday at the OCARC, 905 W. Park Ave. Most co...
A WRAP UP Well, the elections are over with until the big general election in November. In the cities, school boards and port elections last weekend there were no surprises. Even the defeat of the incumbents in Vidor was expected. In Orange, Mayor Brown Claybar was sworn in for his fifth term. Brown has been an effective and unselfish leader, often at the expense of his business and health. This will be his final two years. The revamping of downtown should well be on the way when he leaves office. ***Theresa Beauchamp,...
It was all set up a couple of weeks ago that when the fire truck on which Santa was riding in the Orange Christmas parade reached a certain location, he was going to give me a copy of his proposed route he plans to take on the night of Dec. 24 and some of the gifts he would be delivering. But alas! the annual Orange Christmas parade was postponed at the last minute due to inclement weather—not rain mind you, but snow of all things. This really threw a big monkey wrench into the planning of our annual Christmas Korner with t...
I’ve known very few people more colorful than Ed Lovelace. When he arrived in Orange from Port Arthur and bought the local radio station the city was loaded with colorful people. It was a time when businesses were independently and locally owned. Ed blended in perfectly with the likes of Oldsmobile dealer Claude Brookshire, Neal Miller and Jimmy Conn, furniture store owners, Lutcher Stark, Judge Sid Caillavet, Sheriff Chester Holts, Joe Blanda, local barber; Frank Zeto and C...
Fishing too fast is a common problem that many anglers have, especially when the fish tend to gather up and school in big bunches. Saltwater anglers who chase schooling fish along with freshwater fishermen who also key in on flocks of birds over hungry groups of stripers, hybrids, and whites are perhaps the worst. The frenzied activity puts everyone on the boat in high gear often leaving the majority of the water column untouched. It’s a proven fact that smaller more a...
ANOTHER YEAR OF PUBLISHING, ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY EDITION Forty-nine years have rolled around since Walter Gaston published the first Penny Record, Bridge City and Orangefield’s own newspaper. Over the years it has been the messenger and voice of the homefolks of those communities. The publication has remained very popular with a readership that approaches 90 percent of all homes. It’s really the only vehicle that reaches the vast majority of the consumers. Its sister paper, The County Record, is also very popular, wel...
George P. Craft, 66, of Orange, passed from this life to Glory on Monday, March 23, 2009, in St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont . Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday in Claybar Funeral Home in Orange, with the Rev. Mike Umbenhaur, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Orange, officiating. Burial will follow in Wright Cemetery near Buna. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. Born in Orange on Feb. 14, 1943, Mr. Craft was the son of Mary Jo (Williams) and Alonzo Craft Jr. and was an owner of...
Although 2008 has been a very unusual year with the economy very unstable and uncertain and this area still not yet recovered from the devastation Hurricane Ike delivered a couple of months ago, Southeast Texas will pause from all the bad luck to celebrate the Christmas season as normally as possible. Our area was even given a bonus for this Christmas season by receiving the earliest snowfall in history earlier this month. Fortunately for this part of the country evidence of a snowfall disappears almost as fast as it...
GUSTAV HELD GULF COAST HOSTAGE A mandatory evacuation was called for 6 a.m. Sunday. What was so strange was that when cars were supposed to be bumper to bumper there was absolutely no traffic. Had everyone leaving already gone? I didn’t see 10 cars in the first hour. H.D. and Pat Pate, who were on Hwy. 62 in Buna, called to say there was no traffic. On Saturday special needs people were shipped out. Commissioner John Dubose was driving a bus moving evacuees to Jefferson County Airport. Dubose, Judge Thibodeaux and other o...
WHATEVER WILL BE WILL BE Next Sunday, July 20, will mark 39 years since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon with the words, “The Eagle has landed” and “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” That was a proud moment for every American. Anyone today who was five or older then still recalls that event and where they were at the time. In 1961, new President John F. Kennedy directed that the U.S. would reach the moon in this decade and so we did, in 1969. If we ever get a president with the same dedication, not one...
STRANGE WAY TO START THE DAY At 9:30 a.m. the steeple bells at First Baptist Church were playing beautiful church hymns. I pulled up a seat at the spool table under the Hackberry tree as the music rang out around the community. Even at this late hour, late for me, the traffic is slow and the music came to Mr. Cox’s Neighborhood loud and clear. I reflected on the great day the Lord had sent. My mind drifted to what it might bring. I try to find, in every day something special. Despite all the rain around us the past week e...
In today’s highly specialized world of tackle and gear it seems like there is a bait for every individual situation. Lures have become so refined that the consumer cannot possibly ever catch unless they have a pocket full of cash and camp out at the local tackle shop. Now it’s one thing to have to worry about saltwater tackle and it’s quite another thing to worry about freshwater tackle, try worrying about both of them at the same time. Anglers on the upper coast of Texas are...
Texas anglers are encouraged to “think outside the baitcaster.” “Howdy Tex” was a common greeting from other anglers as Bink Grimes and I strode down the sidewalk towards our waiting boat. “I wonder how they know we’re from Texas,” I thought to myself, then I looked down at my rods and it hit me as I gazed at the fist full of baitcasters. We were in Florida and baitcasters are a dead giveaway that you are from the Lone Star State, down in the Sunshine State spinning tack...
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THE REST OF THE STORY You folks who readthis column religiously each week in its entirety will recall a coupleof weeks ago I told about a Mockingbird tormenting a mama cat. For daysthe bird would slam into the cat’s head and fly off. Saturday, Mama cat out-foxed the bird. She caught it. I’msorry I missed the action but mama brought the bird to the front doorand deposited it as evidence. She has two baby kittens and she wasteaching them how to eat a bird. All that is left is the wings. It tooktwo wee...
THE CAT AND THE MOCKINGBIRD You can’t kill a Mockingbird, it’s against the law, it’s protected, and it’s the Texas state bird. However, I know a mama cat that would eat that sucker if she could ever get her paws on it. For a week, I’ve watched that bird torment the cat. The bird hides out in the Hackberry or up on the high wire and when the cat crosses the yard, here it comes, skydiving onto her head or her back. The only way to get away is the bushes. The bird has lots of patience, it will waste and entire day waiting for th...
WEATHERED STORMS It was 3:45 a.m. this morning and a lot of lightning could be seen in the distance so I turned the radar on. The storm coming was at Wildwood, coming to North Hardin and Newton counties. It moved more southerly. Lake Charles National Weather said it would hit here at the Creaux’s Nest at 4:55 a.m. It was right on the money. Lightning had the sky ablaze. The wind was up but it turned out not too bad. We got a little needed rain out of it. Cow Bayou north took the worst hit. The wind kicked up some damage f...
Lamar University is scheduled to confer 730 degrees during spring commencement May 10, including a record 22 doctorates. Texas Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones will be the keynote speaker for ceremonies beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the Montagne Center . This will be the largest spring commencement in many years, said Kevin Smith, senior associate provost. Twenty-two of the graduates will earn doctorates – the largest number of doctorates in Lamar history. The number includes 21 doctorates in educational...
A great friend, Joe Burke, suffered a stroke and died last Tuesday, Jan. 29. After having the stroke, he lingered all day while Orange Baptist attempted to find a hospital with a staff that could handle his condition. Believe it or not, the only one found was John Sealy Hospital in Galveston. Joe died while in route. That says a lot about the kind of medical service available in this area. It’s really scary when you think about it. Joe had called this office at 11 a.m. Monday and also called Roy at 7:45 p.m. that evening. T...
Getting ready to move into a brand-new home presents many headaches if one doesn’t have much experience in this exciting endeavor. What do you save? What do you throw out? What do you give to the kids? Should you have a big garage sale? We pondered some of these questions while putting out the Christmas dishes and packing up the everyday ones that will be transferred to our new home, which luckily is less than five miles away. Right after the rain stopped Saturday around noon the doorbell rang. There stood a rotund elderly g...
