Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Did you know there is a coffee that comes from Alaska? Did you know the darker the roast, the less the caffeine? Did you know this Alaskan coffee is available in Orange? You can find it in an outhouse display at Sweet Creations located at 3515 Mockingbird, Suite 1. Coleen James built the display with the help of her daughter with 150-year-old wood from a house in Jasper that was being demolished. She rescued the wood because it was set to be burned. James decided to add the...
The latest real estate acquisition at Lamar State College Orange speaks to how fast things are moving in growing the downtown campus and its offerings. "All we ever wanted to know was, 'Can we go faster?' 77-year-old Quincy Procell recalled, speaking of his time at Procell Brothers Performance Center at 105 Green Avenue, the property sold to LSCO. The lot at the corner of Green and First Street was for years headquarters for a company internationally known for its racecar...
Orange County Commissioners did something Tuesday their predecessors had whiffed on for over a decade. County Commissioners Johnny Trahan, Theresa Beauchamp, Robert Viator and Kirk Roccaforte joined County Judge John Gothia in approving a collective bargaining agreement between the county, the sheriff and his deputies. Gothia added his signature to Sheriff Jimmy Lane Mooney and Dustin Bock, president of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Employees Association, and the c...
Jury selection and trial testimony began Monday in the manslaughter case of Valyn Rose Faulk, 21, of Orange, in the 128th District Court with Judge Courtney Arkeen. Faulk is accused of killing Derrick Cane, 28, in November 2018 in the 3300 block of Martin Luther King Drive. According to court testimony, Faulk was driving a 2013 Hyundai Sonata when she struck the sanitation worker crushing and severing his legs as she struck the back of the sanitation truck. Dean Nance, an...
Congrats to these students as part of Mrs. Bellard's BIM 2 class for passing the MOS PowerPoint Certification Exam. Back row: Bryce Blacksher, Kaitlyn Jenknis, Ethan Smith Front row: KayLeigh Roebuck, Georgia Jones...
Western Avenue, between Foreman Road and Newton Street, will be closed to through-traffic on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 from 6:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. to allow work to be done on the Union Pacific RR crossing. Residents are encouraged to avoid Western Avenue during this time. Motorists are asked to observe all detour and warning signs during this closure. Eastbound traffic will be detoured south on Foreman Road at Western Avenue to Burnett Street and then east on Burnett to Newton Street, turning north onto Newton and back to W...
Lamar State College Orange just keeps making it rain. The school announced this week it has landed a $500,000 donation from Orange’s Cloeren Inc. to build a mechatronics program. This comes on the heels of the state granting the school $37.4 million to build a new Academics Building on the former site of the downtown Capital One Bank at the end of October. In early November, the Texas Higher Education Board granted LSCO nearly $1 million in grants, including $495,000 to p...
The city of Bridge City is sponsoring their first Christmas in the Park, 5-9 p.m., Friday, on the grounds of the Bridge City Community Center. Terri Gauthier is one of the organizers of the event, along with co-chairman Jeannie McDowel, BC city secretary. The event came about when several city leaders attended the Texas Municipal League. They were brainstorming ideas and asking other towns what they have done in their areas. "We just felt like our community needed something...
AUSTIN, TX - Last week, State Senator Robert Nichols (R-Jacksonville) filed for re-election for Texas Senate District 3. The newly redrawn district covers much of the existing district including the majority of East Texas. Major changes include picking up the greater part of Jefferson County and losing San Jacinto County and Montgomery County. "Serving the people of Senate District 3 is a tremendous honor and I humbly ask for their support to continue our important work at the capitol and remain a strong voice for rural...
Orange County Commissioners, led by Judge John Gothia, made it clear what they're thankful for this Thanksgiving. "The county is happy for getting through 2021 without any hurricanes or other disasters," the judge and four commissioners said in unison. And they're hoping to start receiving federal reimbursements for money spent on 2020's Hurricane Laura early in 2022. As usual, much of Tuesday's Commissioners Court meeting revolved around repairs to damage caused by past...
Hard as it is to believe, the rumbling up and down 16th Street and the deforestation of MacArthur Drive bodes well for the city of Orange. Add to it the tractors and large pipes behind the Whataburger on I-10 and it all smells like Progress. The Texas Department of Transportation has a lifetime gig in Orange County, for sure. Just on the interstate alone. But one of the new projects represents a $2 million investment in 16th Street, which city fathers hope will be an uber...
In nearly 34 years working in the District Clerk's Office – 23 of them in the boss' chair – Vickie Edgerly has seen a lot change. "When I came to work here, there were no computers, just typewriters. Everything was paper, written in books. "Now we're electronic and have paperless courts. You have to be tech savvy, not scared of technology." District clerks in Texas serve as the registrar, recorder and custodian of all court pleadings and papers connected with any legal cau...
Pastor Matt Chandler was born in Orange, Texas and has been a life-long, Orange County resident. He's married to Brittney Chandler and they have two girls, Blakely and Everly, and one boy, Shepard. Matt is a graduate of Orangefield High School and went to college in Dallas. Matt has been serving in multiple ministries roles since 2005 and is currently the Pastor of Life Church in Orange. Matt previously served on the Pinehurst City Council and also served as Mayor Pro Tem. He...
With just under four months left before the March 1 Republican Primary, it's doubtful that any Orange County candidate will raise more money than County Judge John Gothia already has in the bank. With no big-money opponent in his first County Judge race in 2020, the popular ex-commissioner raised a lot of dough and spent little of it on advertising. Gothia starts the 2022 election cycle with $19,299 left in his political fund-raising account. No opponent has come forward to...
West Orange-Cove schools Superintendent Dr. Rickie Harris has offered a unique approach to deal locally with what he says is a nationwide shortage of teachers. He told his board members Monday night that he is considering shifting the most qualified teachers at West Orange-Stark High School to instruct the younger grade 9 and 10 students. That would leave juniors and seniors to go online to take some upper level classes like government, economics and English 3 and English 4, i...
The 2022 Orange County Election is off and running. Theresa Beauchamp announced Tuesday she will not run for reelection as County Commissioner for Precinct 2. Chris Sowell of Mauriceville, president of the Mauriceville Heritage Association, followed up her announcement during a Commissioners Court meeting by taking the podium and announcing he will be seeking that empty seat. "When elected," Sowell said, "I look forward with working with the Commissioners and other county...
J.B. Arrington only chews on the end of his cigar these days, but the 96-year-old McLewis native is still smoking. He's up all night smoking briskets for JB's Barbecue, the Pinehurst eatery he founded in 1972 and has run ever since. But running a restaurant is just one of many chapters in his life. Like Orange County's other dozen or so living World War II veterans, he's deep into the Book of Life. Thursday, November 11, is Veterans Day, an occasion to celebrate the bravery...
Dickie Colburn "could tell a joke like nobody else," Frank Beauchamp said the other day. Beauchamp, who was Colburn's lifelong friend, could never get enough of his friend's company and sadly, won't ever be able to. Colburn, longtime Southeast Texas fishing guide and outdoors columnist for The Record Newspapers, died Wednesday, Oct. 27 in a traffic accident. He was 75. "We lost a good man, that's all I can say," said Beauchamp, the retired heavy equipment salesman who is...
Shawn Hare, a fifth-generation Orange County resident, has announced that he intends to run for County Commissioner Precinct 2 in the 2022 elections. "As commissioner, I will ensure that the Orange County Commissioner's Court will address the growing need for infrastructure, be fiscally responsible, provide adequate funding for our law enforcement, and address the growing need for housing and job development," Hare said. Hare said that he has considered running for office for...
Michelle Burch said had just enough warning of the tornado bearing down on her tied-down double-wide mobile home to make it into her bedroom closet. "We could hear it from about a mile away," she said of the 130-mile-per-hour winds that hit at mid-morning Wednesday, Oct. 27. "It happened so quick. We were flipping through the air. I was, 'Oh my God, oh my God,' and it was over." Burch's home on Farm to Market Road 1130 ended upside down about 20 feet north of the cinder...
What's the secret to living to be 100 years old? Bridge City's Cedric Stout, who turns 100 on Sunday, Nov. 7, is like a cat with many lives. "I've done died so many times," he said the other day. "I died from sea sickness so many times in the Navy. Sometimes I'd go without food for a week, I was so sick. "And it didn't matter if I was up on deck, or below deck, I'd get sick. If you've never been seasick, it's one of the worst kinds of sick there is." Of course, when it comes...
World War II veteran Cedric Stout was honored at Tuesday night's Bridge City Council meeting with a proclamation honoring his 100th birthday, a key to the city and a reception with cake and punch....
Orange could be getting nearly 200 new hotel rooms and up to 150 new homes. Those were among the items on the agenda for Tuesday night's Planning and Zoning Commission to consider. ISHA Investments LLC is seeking a rezoning request so that it may build two or more hotels and a restaurant south of the Pilot Travel Center on Texas Route 62. The owner, who also owns the Quality Inn and Suites in Bridge City, has told the city he already has a commitment from Marriott to build a...
Quote from Roy Dunn publisher "The staff of The Record Newspapers is deeply saddened by the tragic death of our popular fishing columnist, longtime fishing guide, Dickie Colburn." On a personal note, "I didn't want to believe the news that Dickie had left us. He's the last person I would have believed would have lost his life due to an accident. As a guide he was always very cautious and alert. I had trouble going to sleep and I woke up with him on my mind. He was easy to...
ORANGE, TX – Lamar State College Orange announced that the college has received nearly $840,000 in grant awards from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) in recent days. The awards come in the form of three different grants to support modernization of reporting, increasing training offerings to prepare students to take CDL Class A or B exams, and the purchasing of equipment needed to launch a Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Maintenance program. THECB Awards R...
