Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Planning and design work is moving along steadily for the Orange County end of the federal Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay Coastal Storm Risk Management Project. The United States Army Corps of Engineers, Orange County and the Orange County Drainage District will host three public outreach meetings in late April to show their work. The first meeting is set for Saturday, April 23 at the Bridge City Community Center. Additional meetings will be held on Thursday, April 28 at the Ora...
A Louisiana residential developer wants to add 119 single-family homes in north Orange and the city was expected to move the project along at a Tuesday evening meeting. J Breaux Enterprises of Carencro, Louisiana, has already won a financial incentive from the city’s Economic Development Corporation that will reimburse up to $100,000 for infrastructure on the 77-acre subdivision of $200,000 homes named The Reserve at Mallard Lake. The city’s planning and zoning commission and...
The city of Orange issued permits for new commercial construction valued at nearly a half million dollars. Added onto that are permits for six new residences that will total more than a million dollars, according to March building permits issued by the city. A new donut shop, Orange City, is constructing a $300,000 building, the largest permit of the month. The new shop will be at 3640 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, north of Interstate 10, near two churches and Willowbend...
Something so extraordinary is happening this week that the Harris family is closing Farmers Mercantile Friday and Saturday during spring planting time. The family wants to see Dan Harris Sr. inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth. Dan Harris was a member of the Sam Houston rodeo team that won the 1968 National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association's national championship. He said the girls and the boys teams won their competitions that year, which was a fi...
A beaten-down piece of Orange County history is getting a reboot. The Brown Family Hangar at Orange County Airport is undergoing a restoration, thanks to a well-planned insurance policy and Hurricane Laura. Kurt Guidry, Orange County maintenance director, says the county's property insurer is paying $200,000 to "re-skin" the whole building, except doors. Edgar Brown Jr., the grandson of Henry James Lutcher, who was one of the wealthiest timbermen in the United States, built...
Data being released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows Orange County follows most national averages including median household income and computer access. The county is ahead on the percentage of homeowners living in their houses. But the statistics show the median values of those dwellings are nearly 50 percent less than the national median, which may be interpreted to show housing is less expensive than in other areas. The population numbers from the 2020 Census were released l...
The West Orange-Cove CISD school board Monday voted to honor local professional baseball legend Andre Robertson by naming the high school field for him. The school district announced the Andre Robertson Field at Ronnie Anderson Park will be at West Orange-Stark High School. Robertson integrated the local Little League in the 1960s and went on to become starting short stop for the New York Yankees. His other tributes include being inducted to the Longhorn Hall of Honor at the...
When John Martin volunteered to work his first Lions Club Charity Carnival in 1966, he was assigned to head up a group running a new ride dubbed "The Comet." It was quickly renamed "The Vomit Comet." With good reason, Martin said. In addition to the mechanical ride spinning around a center axle like a wagon wheel, riders could spin a wheel inside their individual cars to make the cars go round faster and faster. "We didn't know how to run it at first. The first night we had...
Congratulations to Colt Longron. He won the Grand Champion Market Lamb at the YMBL South Texas State Fair in Beaumont. The lamb was a market animal project for Orangefield FFA. The family would like to thank Contos Livestock for all their support....
The City of Orange is now accepting applications for the position of Fire Chief, following Chief David Frenzel’s retirement announcement. The current Fire Chief, David Frenzel, will retire from the City of Orange after serving with the department for 53 years. This will be the first time in 25 years that the position of Fire Chief is open to be filled. The Fire Chief serves as the administrative head of the City of Orange Fire Department and provides the overall direction t...
A tradition dating back to the Middle Ages in Christianity has a legacy of its own in Orange. However, last weekend at St. Mary's Catholic Church, a group of women and men gave the Feast of St. Joseph and its attendant St. Joseph Altar a new twist. "This year, because of the suffering in Ukraine, we've dedicated the altar to the efforts for peace," Cathy Blanda Brittain said. She pointed out a framed icon of "Our Mother of Perpetual Help," a depiction of the Blessed Virgin...
Don't blame YouTube and TikTok for foolish foods and dangerous stunts. Decades before the internet, teenagers in Orange butted their heads on 'Stop' signs and drank Cokes with dill pickle juice. Blame it on Zack's. Zack's drive-in during the 1950s and into the 1960s, it was the gathering place for teenagers. The restaurant was owned by Mr. and Mrs. Zack Jacobs on the West Orange side of MacArthur Drive. But it wasn't the youth that brought the first community notoriety to...
Orange County's two-week Vessel Turn-In Program was a success as 52 derelict boats were turned over to the county to be destroyed. The county and the General Land Office plan to hold another next March....
Long-range planning and steady investments with economic development grants have helped the city of Orange to attract developers to build new subdivisions for single-family houses. The city had been landlocked for a number of years to allow for new large subdivisions, but decisions made by voters and the Orange City Council 20 years ago have opened it up for new construction. In 2002, voters approved the city applying a special half-cent per dollar sales tax to be used...
Members of the Orange Lions Club young and old, with help from neighboring Lions and Orange County Jail trusties, created a beehive of activity at Lions Den Park the last couple of weekends. They're all getting ready to open the 81st Annual Lions Club Charity Carnival for two four-day weeks beginning March 30. "We're glad to be able to open back up after the pandemic. I know the citizens of Orange missed it," Grover Roberts III, carnival co-chairman, said. It will run from...
Like volunteer firemen extinguishing a structure fire, the state of Texas doused the first-ever Orange County Emergency Services Districts directors' election. It was set to be held May 7 along with city, school and county commission elections. But Texas Secretary of State John B. Scott said no. It will have to wait for November 8. "The Secretary of State told us that under Election Code 41001, a county cannot order an election in May of an even-numbered year," Orange County...
The Early Voting location for the May 7 city and school board elections in the southern end of Orange County will be the Bridge City ISD Administration Building, 1031 W. Roundbunch Road in Bridge City. As has been the case for many years, the county has offered four early voting sites and any county resident may vote at any of those sites. However, those waiting to vote on the official Election Day must cast their ballot at the polling box listed on a person’s voter r...
Codie Vasquez, executive director of Court Appointed Special Advocates Sabine Neches Region, joins Orange County Commissioners Court Tuesday to declare April Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention month. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers...
Don Reese said he retired as Bridge City's transportation director a couple of years ago because, "I got tired of trying to keep bus drivers." Then the retiree took a part-time job – as a Bridge City school bus driver. "They needed some help," Reese explained. "It fits my retirement." School districts all over the country are facing bus driver shortages. On the same day Reese was interviewed, West Orange-Cove school district issued a release saying the district had 10 bus d...
The most improved Orange County football team is getting an improved homefield. Little Cypress-Mauriceville school board members voted to approve $5 million in athletic facility improvements that include an artificial turf playing field, a new seven-lane track and new restrooms for the home side of Battlin' Bear Stadium. A project schedule prepared for trustees shows that the football field will be ready in August, in time for the 2022 football season. Eric Peevey, LCM's...
Cities in Orange County, along with the county, are seeing mostly increases in sales tax revenues, but not always enough to keep up with the rate of inflation. The Texas Comptroller's Office has sent sales tax payments for January sales to the entities in March and statistics show most have an increase. The city of Pinehurst, though, is collecting less than in March last year and is down nearly $65,000 in sales tax revenues during the first three months of 2022. The U.S....
The Orange County team had practiced, consulted on a strategy, and was pumped to compete at NRG Park. The sweat, grease, smoke, and heat were rewarded. The Brew Crew Cookers has the best ribs in the world and the trophy to prove it. The local group recently won first place ribs in the World's Bar-B-Que Championship at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. They placed sixth overall. Eric Nies, a founder of the team, said the group was only a couple of points from grand overall...
Lauren Leigh's work is all over town and now it's not only decorating downtown Orange but looming over it. Paul Dickerson, owner of the Orange Stationer, held a ribbon-cutting last Friday, March 4, for Leigh's latest and definitely largest work, a 20-foot high mural on the 6th Street side of his store at Division and 6th. "This is an awesome, awesome mural," Chris Kovatch of the Orange Lions Club said to a gathering of about 50 people. It looks to the west upon the Orange...
Nelson Plaisance trailered the 23-foot eyesore from his yard in the Cove to the Collection Station at the Orange County Landfill Saturday afternoon. It was time to let 'er go and the Vessel Turn In Program being run by the Texas General Land Office at the FM 1442 location was the perfect opportunity to say goodbye to the boat that wouldn't even run to his mailbox for 15 years or more. "A friend of mine must have seen it in the paper and I found out from his post on Facebook....
A warehouse store in Beaumont this week will have an estate sale featuring hundreds of items from an mysterious Orange mansion and roots back to the wealthy Lutcher family. BAW Estate Sales, 1096 Calder, will be selling items from the Odom estate in Orange. The sale will be Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Barbara Wilson owns BAW and said proceeds will go to the charitable Moore-Odom Wildlife Foundation. The items come from the estate of Rucie Earl (R.E.) Odom, who died...
