Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Lamar State College Orange's first-year fishing team is No. 1 in the national Bass Pro Shops 2020-21 national rankings issued this week. The rankings are based on points awarded for high finishes. The Gators' high standing comes as a result of high finishes in two of the four tournaments held in July, the 2020 FLW Southern held at Fort Gibson Lake in Oklahoma and the 2020 FLW Northern on Lake Erie. "That's not just junior colleges. That's all the two- and four-year schools in...
Cutline: Dana Roberts of McLewis was one of eight residents to speak against a proposed tax rate hike for Orange County Tuesday afternoon. County Commissioners will finalize the rate next month. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers It was show and tell at the Orange County Tax Rate hearing Tuesday afternoon. Orange County Judge John Gothia showed a group of concerned taxpayers how he would spend the extra funds generated by a proposed tax rate increase of 4.5 cents per $100 value. Then e...
We are proud to announce the results of our 2020 Tiger Rock Martial Arts Heroes Championship. This event was hosted in Beaumont, TX on July 17th and 18th. Team Bridge City had a showing of 19 competitors! These competitors came out despite COVID-19; competed in masks and showed a high level of competitive spirit. They even competed in a new event called Heroes Sparring, which utilizes a power bag and specific targets to earn points in a timed event. These martial artists...
Readers of The Record have inquired about the scheduled re-opening of the East Roundbunch Swing Bridge. The answer is almost but not yet. East Roundbunch Road swing bridge is undergoing testing, the Texas Department of Transportation said Tuesday. No opening date has been announced for the unique bridge, which has been closed since state inspectors ruled it unsafe in March 2017. Last month, TxDOT said the bridge and the road, a well-used shortcut from Bridge City to Chemical...
Downtown Orange has had some added downtown attraction the past few weeks. Two locomotives, tank cars and a caboose have been parked on the railroad tracks on Front Avenue, between Eighth and Tenth Streets, beside the Orange Police Station. They are there courtesy of Gulf Coast Rail Service, which does train car repairs....
Orange Mayor Larry Spears Jr., a man of limitless positivity whose glass is always overflowing, reacted with great joy Tuesday morning when Cheryl Zeto, city finance director, reported that property tax values in the city had increased by $13.7 million this year. “It’s always a good thing to find out your values have increased, isn’t it?” he said. Is it? Depends on your glass. Rising property values mean taxing entities (county, city, schools, special districts) can lower t...
Deaths in Orange County from Covid-19 infections have increased from 5 to 21 in the past month. “Several of those people have been sick for awhile,” County Judge John Gothia said when asked about the recent fatalities. “Two of the people were a married couple that didn’t go to the doctor soon enough. That’s the ones we’re having trouble with. “If you have a number of underlying conditions, don’t try to wait it out.” Orange County rocketed past the 1,000 mark in confirmed Covi...
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce is announced that Jonie Trahan at Brent Walters Allstate in Bridge City, has been named July Employee of the Month. Jonie was presented her award, sponsored by Energy Ford, by Chamber President Candace Mulhollan, Ambassadors Rani Dillow, Stephanie Roberts and Eric Andrus. Jonie has been in the insurance business for over 15 years. She has returned to Brent Walters Agency in Bridge City three months ago. Elyse Thibodeaux of Tiger Rock...
Three faculty members from Lamar State College Port Arthur were recently honored with selection as recipients of the annual NISOD Excellence Awards. Honorees for 2020 include English professor Dr. Michelle Judice, Software Developer and Game Design Program Coordinator Sarita Medhekar and Surgical Technology instructor Truman Hare. The National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) presents its Excellence Awards to recognize men and women each year who have...
Property tax values on Orange County homes were up 4% on average as of Jan. 1, 2020 and if the tax rates set by local governments in August and September only stay the same as they were last year, the average homeowner will see their 2020 tax bill go up by the same 4%. A rise in property values and a raise in tax rates would put a double whammy on taxpayers. Orange County Commissioners voted 4-1 Tuesday to set their proposed tax rate at 58.648 cents per $100 of taxable...
TxDOT draws fire from Orange leaders Dave Rogers For The Record The Texas Department of Transportation has come under fire from both city and county officials in recent weeks. Orange City Councilman Pat Pullen, a retired police captain, took on the state agency in a recent news conference to make public his pleas for streetlights along MacArthur Drive. They are pleas that have so far met a brick wall. Orange County Commissioner Johnny Trahan reported in a statement to the...
John Gothia was not one of two politicians running for office in Orange County this year to raise more than $30,000. But he got close. And the man who won the County Judge election with about 75% of the votes is the only one to have saved $21,000 of his campaign dollars. Meanwhile, Rex Peveto, judge elect for the 163rd District Court, spent more than $60,000 to win a job that pays $158,000, almost never draws a re-election challenge and has an awesome retirement plan. All...
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases skyrocket in Orange County, the mysterious respiratory disease is affecting those under 30 years of age at a higher rate. It remains to be seen how the return of students to classrooms will move the numbers....
The Bridge City Cardinals are set to be Orange County's canaries in the coal mine as they head back to their classrooms Monday. The school district's Aug. 3 return to the classroom is nearly two weeks ahead of any of its neighbors and a brave venture, given this year's Covid-19 pandemic. "We are looking forward to the start of the 20-21 school year," was the word from Todd Lintzen, superintendent. While students in Texas have the option to start the school year on campus or...
Liar, liar, pants on fire. At least it wasn't a house. After Chief Shon Branham and seven other members of the Pinehurst Volunteer Fire Department resigned in a show for the TV cameras Monday, new City Administrator Jerry Hood held a press conference Tuesday and called Branham a liar and his department unqualified to administer medical services. "No, but you are," was essentially the chief's response. "Those are all blatant lies on me," Branham fired back Tuesday night. "I...
Cutline: Dr. Delena King, the Census Bureau's senior partnership specialist for Southeast Texas, is calling upon Orange County residents to return their questionnaires to create an accurate snapshot of the area. Answer the door. Answer the questions. Do your part for Orange County. The U.S. Census Bureau is sending mask-wearing people door-to-door to socially distance while helping fill in the blanks for those citizens who have so far not self-registered online or via mail....
More than 1,000 people were tested for COVID-19 during three days of testing offered in Orange County last week. Might the number of positive tests from Orange County also top 1,000 when the next official weekly information release comes later this week? Based on the ever-climbing upward curve of recent weeks, it wouldn't be a big reach. The number of lab-confirmed cases increased by 232 between July 8 (487) and July 15 (719). Active cases stood at 508, according to the July 1...
Almost paradise. Who could ask for more? Probably Orange County Precinct 2 Commissioner Theresa Beauchamp. But she seems too busy being tickled pink by the fact that her long-awaited office is almost ready to call home. "I'm just so happy," Beauchamp said during a Friday show-and-tell of the nearly complete rebuild of the office on Highway 62 that also will serve as a Sheriff's Office substation. It flooded during the country's wettest storm, Tropical Storm Harvey, in August...
Tired of paying big insurance premiums only to sit in a crowded waiting room to see a doctor for less than 10 minutes once or twice a year? Dr. Amy Townsend says she has a better way. Her Magnolia Direct Primary Care medical practice is located at 2845 Texas Ave, Suite 100, next to Orange County Building Materials in Bridge City. It doesn't run on insurance. "Insurance is why healthcare is so expensive," she says. "There's just this tremendous waste in healthcare. All of the...
For more than 50 years, his family business has been busy improving the looks of local properties. But Mark Frey of Orange is joining with Ed Van Huis, the owner and founder of industrial manufacturer Tubal-Cain Industries, to send folks off on the road to new horizons. Their Columbanus Motor Sports, located at 3500 Interstate 10, is set to open as the new Southeast Texas dealership for Indian Motorcycles next spring. The company is named after St. Columbanus, a sixth century...
The memories are great in quantity and quality for 92-year-old Essie Bellfield and last weekend's death of civil rights legend John Lewis carried her back to "Bloody Sunday." "They had billy clubs hitting us all over the head and everything," said Bellfield, who was Orange's first Black and first female mayor from 1997-2000. Lewis, a Congressman who represented Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S. House of Representatives for 43 years, was before that a contemporary of Rev. Martin...
Pinnacle Christian Preschool and Mother's Day Out opens this fall in Bridge City. The preschool provides faith-based education in a play-based learning environment. Directors for the Pinnacle Christian Preschool are David and Danielle Gonzales. "We're very excited about our new new preschool ministry at Pinnacle," said David Gonzales. "The purpose of the preschool is to provide happy group learning experiences where parents can be assured that their child is loved and well...
The Orangefield Independent School District would like to introduce two new administrators to the Bobcat family. Kevin Sensat – Junior High Assistant Principal Mr. Sensat comes to Orangefield ISD with 14 years of educational experience. His previous experience includes: teaching mathematics and physical education, boys’ athletic coordinator, and UIL coordinator. In addition to teaching, Mr. Sensat has filled in as an assistant principal at the junior high and high school lev...
Another week, another couple hundred positive COVID-19 tests in Orange County. Joel Ardoin, the county’s emergency management coordinator, reported Tuesday to county commissioners that as of Monday night, July 13, Orange County had totaled 694 positive tests for the respiratory virus that has so far killed 136,000 Americans. And now 7 of those deaths attributed to the new coronavirus are from Orange County. Since Memorial Day, the number of active cases in Texas’ most southeas...
Orange City Council voted Tuesday to spend $489,000 for the purchase and installation of a new playground at Lions Den Park. The old wooden playground, a community project built in 1999 with donated materials and volunteer labor, was declared unsafe in February and torn down in June. City fathers hope the new playground will be completed by the start of 2021. The new playground will include several ADA features a ramp, swingset seat, a Miracle Megatower play structure and a...
