Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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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...
AUSTIN, TX – Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 52 into law on Monday, officially granting Lamar State College Orange (LSCO) $37,435,695 to construct a new academic building on the LSCO campus in Orange. "We couldn't be more grateful to Governor Abbott, our own State Representative and Speaker of the House Dade Phelan, Senator Robert Nichols, and the Texas Legislature for providing this much-needed infrastructure funding for our beautiful college on the Sabine," LSCO P...
The Daughters of the American Revolution, William Diamond Chapter, recognized the Bridge City Volunteer Fire Department on National First Responders Day. In 2019, October 28 was designated to honor the men and women putting their lives at risk. This includes firefighters, police, EMT, paramedics and 911 operators. Prior to the firemen's meeting, the DAR ladies presented cookies and snacks in appreciation of their service to the community. Photo shows Rodney Mosier, Chief...
Sheriff’s Chaplain Mike Eaves opened Tuesday’s Commissioners Court meeting with a prayer thanking God for the easing of the COVID-19 pandemic. He’s not alone. Six weeks ago, new outbreaks of the coronavirus were popping up at alarming rates. And especially in school children. According to reports for Orange County, the number of “new” cases of COVID-19 in patients aged 5 to 18 went from 34 in the week ended Aug. 10 to 291 in the week ended Aug. 31. Bridge City High School had...
Nearly a half-million dollars in hotel-motel occupancy tax was in the process of being distributed to local non-profits Tuesday. Orange County designated $263,000 for 19 different upcoming events or destinations Tuesday afternoon while the City of Orange was looking to spend $185,000 on a dozen good causes. Orange County collects a 2 percent tax on overnight hotel and motel stays, while the City of Orange collects a 7 percent tax. From those funds, the county and city are...
A couple of parents pleaded for Orangefield's school district "to change with the times" Monday night. Ashley Petty and Scott Rollins want their sons allowed to wear earrings to classes, they said in the public forum portion of the October school board meeting. Currently, the school dress code for Orangefield Independent School District says earrings are prohibited for male students. "My 10-year-old little boy has his ears pierced," Petty told the board members. But the...
Donors ear-marking their funds for the March 2022 Republican Primary election in Orange County might want to double check their precinct lines first. The release earlier this year of the 2020 Census figures is causing, as they do every decade, a redrawing of precinct lines. The idea is to have each of the four precincts contain about 25 percent of the county's population, so that the county's resources are spent equitably. County Commissioners, Justices of the Peace and...
A new immunization clinic near Baptist Hospital Orange at 1502 Strickland Drive is opening later this week, county officials say. The clinic will be open daily, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and offer a selection of vaccines, not just COVID-19 immunizations, said Joel Ardoin, Emergency Management Coordinator for Orange County. "It will offer all of the immunizations people typically need, like school shots and flu vaccines," Ardoin said. "But you have to call to make an appointment."...
It's official. Columbanus Motor Sports cut the ribbon on their dealership at 3500 IH-10 West in Orange on Friday. The grand opening and ribbon cutting was followed by a blessing of the new facility by Reverend Daleo of Saint Mary Catholic Church in Orange and a weekend of fun, entertainment and festivities. The new dealership for motorcycles, utility vehicles, all-terrain vehicles, trailers, lawnmowers and generators is massive compared to owner Mark Frey's previous...
Texans have a chance to have their say on a couple of emotional issues for many that were created by government intervention to fight the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The eight propositions to be voted up or down in the Nov. 2 Texas Constitutional Amendment Election include one (No. 3) that will, if passed, keep the state or any lesser political entities – counties or cities – from limiting or prohibiting religious services. Another proposition (No. 6) establishes a rig...
The first-year Bridge City schools superintendent looks into the future and sees more and more young people. To make sure the schools have room for them, Dr. Mike Kelly is proposing a building program that will not require any new tax dollars. He wants to add six classrooms at Bridge City Elementary and a new career and technical education building at Bridge City High School. "None of these projects have anything to do with new taxes," Dr. Mike Kelly says. "They would all be...
For at least the third time this year, a business owned by a City Hall insider has been awarded a high-dollar Economic Development incentive by the City of Orange. Everyone involved says there's nothing wrong with it. "We run it by our lawyers. We do everything by the book," Orange City Manager Mike Kunst said. "They're business owners, and just like anybody, they're trying to take advantage of an opportunity for an incentive." Any current or potential Orange business can...
Quentin Tarantino doesn't have anything on Orange. He may have written "Pulp Fiction" but, Margaret Toal said, "Orange has Pulp History." Mark Twain said, "Truth is stranger than fiction," and Orange's colorful past is certainly that. Last year the Pandemic canceled the Heritage House Ghost Walk, but it returns this year 4:30-6:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 23 with all new tales of Orange's checkered past. "Margaret Toal who serves as one of our board members was the driving force...
Orange County will get a new representative in Congress, barring a huge shift in a redistricting plan put forth by a committee of Texas lawmakers. Under the plan, which still must be passed by the full Texas Legislature and signed by the governor, U.S. Rep. Randy Weber’s 14th District would include Orange County instead of the county being a part of Texas House District 36, represented by U.S. Rep. Brian Babin. Since 1842, Congress requires every state to draw single member d...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville's football team is sitting pretty as it enters District 10-4A Division I play this week. After slogging past Jasper 13-0 last week, Coach Eric Peevey has his first Battlin' Bears squad off to a 4-1 start. That's three wins more than LC-M garnered last year in a season affected by storms and the coronavirus pandemic. "The thing about sports is you can have an incredible preseason, but it can go down fast," Peevey said. "[Undefeated district foes]...
Gloria Marcelle Adams has had "a good life," though the last few weeks have not been what she planned. Since around Labor Day she has been in a rehab facility after a fall broke her hip. She fell in the garage, but luckily, she was discovered by her daughter she lovingly calls "Teesey," after only 30 minutes. "I'll be home for my birthday," she said excitedly. She turns 98 next week on Monday. Adams was born Oct. 11, 1923, at home in the East Texas Piney Woods. She later...
A second open meeting to hammer out a new work contract between Orange County's leaders and their sheriff's deputies is expected soon. Dustin Bock, president of the Orange County Sheriff's Office Employee Association which represents about 85 of the county's 120 deputies, said the lawmen were waiting to hear back from the county and settle on a meeting date and time. The first open meeting between the Orange County Sheriff's Office Employee Association and the county took...
