Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Out of an abundance of caution and in response to the uncertainty of the latest weather forecast from the National Weather Service, West Orange-Cove CISD will be closed for the remainder of the week. All planned campus events will be rescheduled. Classes will resume on Monday, May 24th....
Orange County officials are monitoring the flood levels on both the east and west sides of Orange County in the low lying areas. Currently County Officials are recommending a voluntary evacuation for Lake View area including Four Oaks Ranch Road, Loving Acres, Connelly Road and all other low lying areas on the Neches River in Orange County. To monitor the lake, river and flood stage levels for the Neches and Sabine Rivers go to http://www.setexasrain.org/ There are many...
Dr. Thomas Johnson, President at Lamar State College Orange, never misses a chance to express how important the role of a two-year college can be. And at the school's Spring 2021 Commencement, he saw over and over the proof. A spring semester record 175 students graduated and received their associate's degrees, or certificates of completion in two ceremonies held Saturday in the Carl Parker Center in Port Arthur. Among the graduates were the first LSCO Early College High Schoo...
Orange County officials joined Newton County Judge Ken Weeks in calling Tuesday afternoon for voluntary evacuations because of heavy rains expected to add to already flooded areas. Though sunshine was abundant Tuesday evening, another stormfront was expected Wednesday. "Based on what we've been told, [Wednesday] is supposed to be the worst," said Joel Ardoin, Orange County Emergency Management Coordinator. "The it will start letting up." West Orange-Cove CISD canceled school...
Bridge City alum Kassidy Wilbur was named Southland Conference Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year after leading Stephen F. Austin’s softball team to the conference title. She went into this week’s play with the most wins – 29 – of any pitcher in NCAA Division I. A junior who led BC to four straight district championships and was a three-time District 24-4A Most Valuable Player, Wilbur etched her name in the SFA record books in 2021. She posted a 29-4 record across...
So you've always wanted to live in a $200,000 home. Or a half-million dollar home. This could be your lucky year. You'd love to sell it for top dollar when it's time. But, meanwhile, that value is way over what you want to pay taxes on. Tax values are up across the state of Texas this year and Orange County is no exception. Scott Overton, Chief Appraiser for the Orange County Appraisal District, said preliminary tax values were up an average of 16 percent over last year. But...
Orange is set to host a couple hundred college bass fishing teams July 8-10 in the Texas B.A.S.S. Nation Sabine River fishing tournament. County Commissioners approved a $15,000 payment from the Hotel Occupancy Tax fund to pay the host fee. The tournament, based at Orange Boat Ramp, is a last-chance qualifier for the Carhartt BASSmaster National Championship in August. Jessica Hill, Executive Director of the Orange County Economic Development Corporation, said the event could...
Students in Bridge City High School’s floral design classes stay busy year-round. “We do all the flowers for school,” instructor Debbie Gregg said. “Any time there’s a big dance, we do the presentational flowers. “It starts in the fall with homecoming flowers and we finish up with graduation.” But for the last couple of weeks, Gregg’s students have been tending to a new project – one for some, that’s sadly all too meaningful. The 60 students in BC’s four floral design classes...
A recount Friday morning, May 7, confirmed David Bailey's win over two-term Orange City Council member Pat Pullen. The result was exactly the same as reported in "unofficial final results" announced Saturday night. Bailey won by seven votes, 145-138, the right to represent Orange District 1, which includes the west side of the city from Cow Bayou near Bridge City to the south, north along the boundaries of West Orange, the Chevron Phillips Chemical property and Pinehurst and...
Two-term Orange City Council member Patrick Pullen will get a recount of results of the May 1 election. It will be conducted beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, with results expected by noon, Orange County's Election Administration announced. Pullen, an Orange policeman for 32 years before retiring with the rank of Captain, finished seven votes shy of challenger David C. Bailey in the final ballot count, 145-138, for Orange District 1 representative. In his first election to city coun...
Orange County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a resolution supporting a bill in the Texas Legislature that is expected to make the long-discussed “Ike Dike” a reality. “I’d say this is probably the most important event I’ve been around in 20 years dealing with Orange County and its cities,” said Commissioner Kirk Roccaforte, who was mayor of Bridge City in 2006-16, helping the city recover from Hurricanes Rita and Ike. “For all the 20 years I’ve been her...
Two-term Orange City Councilman Patrick A. Pullen said Tuesday afternoon he hadn't decided if he would seek a recount after losing his seat by seven votes Saturday. Final election results were announced Tuesday after the May 3 deadline for receiving mail-in votes postmarked by election day. A total of six new votes were added to Saturday's total, one each in six races. None affected the outcome of any race. David C. Bailey, a former Orange County Sheriff's Office Chief...
Two-way selection Emma Humplik is among four softball teammates and their coach from Orangefield leading the way among Orange County picks to the All-Star games set for June 16-18. The Southeast Texas Coaching Association announced the players and dates and times for the Sixth Annual CHRISTUS All-Star Classic at a news conference Monday. CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Sports Medicine and Beaumont Bone and Joint Institute are the title sponsors. Rebekah Ragsdale, Orangefield High...
Each May, National Foster Care Month, we take the time to raise awareness of the children and families involved in the foster care system and the need for more people to step up to support them. Last year there were 47,913 children in the Texas foster care system, 699 of whom were in our service area of Orange, Hardin, Tyler, Jasper, Newton and Sabine Counties. "There are 699 children in foster care right here in our communities, in our neighborhoods," said Codie Vasquez,...
Summertime, and the county's wallet is thin. It's getting to be an annual refrain in Orange County thanks to an onslaught of weather and health disasters that keep draining the Rainy Day Fund. This year looks like no exception. Orange County's hurricane history was few and far between prior to 2017's Harvey but in the aftermath of Hurricanes Rita and Ike in 2005 and 2008, County Commissioners had to borrow money to keep things running until disaster assistance arrived from...
Randy Branch will be Mayor of West Orange after capturing 68.7% of the vote against Jim Whittington in the Spring 2021 election that ended Saturday evening. Misty Songe and Ronnie Herrera face a runoff for the position of Mayor in Vidor, after finishing 1-2 in a three-way race in which no candidate received 50% plus one of the total votes cast. Branch, pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church, will take the place of longtime West Orange mayor Roy McDonald, who earlier this...
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is currently working a missing person’s investigation involving Luis Martinez Gonzalez H/M DOB 02/28/1992. Mr. Martinez was last seen on April 28, 2021 in Lumberton, Texas. On April 29, 2021 Mr. Martinez’s vehicle was located in Bridge City, Texas at the end of Bailey’s Road. The Sheriff’s Office is asking for help with any information to help locate Mr. Martinez. If anyone has any information they are asked to contact the Sheriff’s...
In 46-year-old Cody McGuire, Bridge City's school district hired its new head football coach/athletic director from the staff of Texas' back-to-back Class 6A Division I state champion, Austin Westlake. After Monday night's unanimous vote by the BCISD board members at the recommendation of new Superintendent Dr. Mike Kelly, McGuire admitted via Google Meet he hadn't known a lot about Bridge City when he was encouraged to apply for what will be his first head football coaching...
As early voting for the Saturday, May 1, 2021 city and school board elections kept the Orange County Elections Office busy the past few weeks, two men filed to run for county office in September of 2022. Former Orange County Precinct 3 Constable Mark Philpott and Mauriceville gun store employee Tim McCarver both turned in paperwork to designate campaign treasurers. Philpott, while naming his wife Babette his treasurer on the form dated April 20, did not fill in the blank that...
Patrick Pullen, Orange council member seeking reelection in District 1 in Saturday’s election, says he’s had a yearning to serve fellow man since enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1975. And uncertainty over whether he could physically continue to do the job for another three-year term kept the retired Orange Police captain from registering to run until the Valentine’s Day deadline. Former Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy David C. Bailey is running against Pullen. He filed while P...
What is today the Nelda and Lutcher Stark Foundation began in Orange nearly 150 years with the opening of the Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company in 1877. But among the many interests of the extended family in throughout the years since, automobiles ranked high. "The Stark Family was an early adopter of the automobile," Joshua Cole, Education and Program Manager, said Tuesday during a special preview of "Rolling Art: Vehicles from the Permanent Collection" at the Stark Museum of...
Bridge City's four qualifiers for the State Girls Powerlifting Meet were honored at Monday night's board meeting. Randi Dunigan, right, was honored as Bridge City ISD Bus Driver of the Year by the school board at its meeting Monday. Presenting the award are Transportation Coordinator Ronda Hale, left, and Joseph Reese, BCISD Director of Operations....
Bridge City's school district held its first monthly board meeting with new superintendent Mike Kelly Monday night. Kelly announced the May 28 high school graduation ceremony will have no limits on tickets for graduates' families and no mask requirement. The event will be live streamed for those unable to attend....
A $15,000 cash "Team of the Year" payout is there for the taking in the 2021 Sabine Redfish Series, four monthly fishing tournaments based out of the High Tides restaurant on Cow Bayou. The first tournament is Saturday and the deadline to register for the Team of the Year prize is Thursday at the Captain's Meeting being held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at High Tides. Subsequent tournaments will be held May 15, June 26 and July 31. Saturday afternoon weigh-ins will take place at...
Commuters between Bridge City and Orange have probably noticed a lot of activity on the pasture land between Texas 87 and Foreman Road. The owner of the 1,700-acre property located across Farm to Market 1006 from the original Chemical Row, is, of course, Chevron Phillips Chemical. The petrochemical giant based in the Houston suburbs began acquiring the land in 2018 and announced in early 2019 that it was considering building a $5.6 billion multi-unit ethylene plant expected...
