Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Photo: Orange County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint John Gothia as County Judge to replace the retiring Carl Thibodeaux. Gothia’s term expires in December 2020 and elections for 2021 terms begin with party primaries next March. Dave Rogers For The Record The decision was hardly a secret, so the Orange County Commissioners set a record Tuesday for the shortest closed meeting. It took only a couple of minutes to reopen the doors to the Commissioners’ Cou...
Local screenwriter/filmmaker Penny LeLeux is raising additional funds for production and postproduction costs for her short film “Shhh” which is scheduled to start shooting in August. The fundraiser campaign is 40% funded. The film is a spy/romantic comedy that will showcase Orange locations great for future filming and also showcase area singer/songwriters in the soundtrack for the film. This is going to be a fun little film that should do well in the festival circuit, sho...
Photo: Lois Smith of Orange shows a 1944 photo of the loading of the US Navy ship USS LST 496. Her great uncle, Doug Goodman, of Orange, was killed when the ship struck a German mine just off Omaha Beach during the Allied Invasion of Normandy in June 1944. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record For more than 75 years, Orange’s Lois Smith has waited for her uncle Doug Goodman to come home from the D-Day invasion. Smith, 82, is expecting that the sailor’s body wil...
Dorothy (Dot) Jane McDaniel Gooch, 91, of Hemphill, Texas passed away Thursday, July 11, 2019 at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont, Texas. Dot was born February 5, 1928 in Fairmont, Texas to Bro. Alexander H. (Bro. Hamp) McDaniel and Sarah Catherine Smith McDaniel and moved to Hemphill at an early. She graduated from Hemphill High School in 1945. She married Robert F Gooch in 1951. After Robert’s military service in the Army, they lived in Orange County, Texas for 3...
My husband, our two sons, and my mother all lived in our home in the Pensacola area of Florida for three years when my husband began working at Westlake Petro Chemical in Pace, FL. We lived in a subdivision called Ashmore Place, where we were some of the few civilians, since most of our neighbors were Top Gun pilots or Coast Guard personnel! It was such a fun place to live, even with its own Bunco group. One of the Navy wives once made this salad for Bunco, and my mom and I went crazy for it! This is so healthy and...
Instapot directions: Pinto Beans with Chicken and Sausage in an Instapot, along with Summer Salad Garnish, Courtesy of Payne's Pantry: Ingredients for one Instapot: 1-lb dry pinto beans, 1/4 lb yellow split peas, 3 meaty chicken legs and 3 large chicken thighs, 1lb Zummo links, 4 small new potatoes, 2 cups cooked rice 1 cucumber, 1 tomato, 1 chopped white or green onion, Pepperonchinnis or chopped jalepeno with vinegar, As desired, shakes of garlic powder, onion powder, (Cajun seasoning, if spicy desired) Salt, as desired...
Mary Ann McKay Girlinghouse, 89, of Orange, Texas, passed away on July 11, 2019. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Monday, July 15, 2019, at First Baptist Church in Mauriceville. Officiating will be Pastor Kevin Brown. Burial will follow the service at Jett Cemetery in Orange. Visitation will be from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Sunday, at Claybar Funeral Home in Orange. Born in Orange, Texas, on June 9, 1930, she was the daughter of Erwin Manuel Brewer and Annie (Linsco...
Dave Rogers / For The Record Kirk Roccaforte, who led Bridge City as mayor through recovery from the September 2008 devastation of Hurricane Ike, was named Precinct 3 Commissioner for Orange County at Wednesday’s weekly meeting of the Commissioners’ Court. He will serve the remainder of a term begun by John Gothia, which runs through the end of next year. Gothia resigned a week ago to be eligible for the county judge’s job after County Judge Carl Thibodeaux opened last week’s...
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce has announced that Seth Martin, of Brick Oven Pizza, has been named July Employee of the Month. Seth accepted his award from Lifetime Ambassador Dave Derosier, owner of OhainWEB.com, at the chamber’s July Networking Coffee hosted by Merle Norman and Milli Kids Boutique. Seth is a 2017 graduate of Bridge City High School. He is currently a sophomore at Lamar University where he is majoring in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. Seth r...
Dave Rogers For The Record The finish line is in sight, but it’s been pushed back again. An official with the Texas Department of Transportation said Tuesday that the historic swing bridge on East Roundbunch Road isn’t expected to reopen until the end of August. The previously stated timeline for the $11.4 million project was for a mid-July completion. And before that, it was in early 2019. And before that, mid-2018. The bridge has been closed since March of 2017 for str...
Dave Rogers For The Record After six years on the City of Bridge City’s buildings and standards committee, Danny Harrington let it be known around City Hall that he would welcome a new challenge. “I told them if they had a position with a little more involved, I might be interested,” he said, “but I never thought it would be on the city council. “I’m honored and thankful they chose me for this honor.” Mayor David Rutledge said “several people expressed interest” in th...
Photo: Orange native, Gerald Mathews, coached his tennis team all the way to the CIF Southern Section Division 2 Championship in California. Photo courtesy of Velenta Mathews. Penny LeLeux For The Record Gerald Mathews had great athletic ability in high school, but he was too small for team sports. He never let that hold him back. Today Mathews is a tennis coach in California and his team recently captured the CIF Southern Section Division 2 championship at the Claremont Club...
Photo: Jacksonville, Texas, the self-proclaimed “Tomato Capital of Texas,” has decorated its downtown businesses and neighborhoods with large tomato sculptures for a decade. Dave Rogers For The Record They don’t call it Orange for nothing and the future is looking bright and orange with big and heavy oranges. The Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce rolled out its “The Orange Grove” project Tuesday, selling 650-pound, 30-inches-across concrete oranges “to promote pri...
Photo: State champion golfer Jack Burke of Little Cypress-Mauriceville, right, is recognized by Orange Mayor Larry Spears as city council declared it Jack Burke Day in Orange at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Dave Rogers For The Record The Texas Legislature’s vote earlier this year to help Texas property owners avoid skyrocketing taxes in the future could cause them some pain come New Year’s Eve. With more than a year until property tax reforming Senate Bill 2 goes into...
Orange County Judge Carl Thibodeaux and Precinct 3 Commissioner John Gothia announced their resignations, effective July 10, at Tuesday’s weekly meeting of Orange County Commissioners’ Court. Gothia announced he planned to seek the appointment as new county judge. Before a new county judge can be appointed by commissioners' court, Thibodeaux must fill the vacancy left by Gothia. Thibodeaux, who was county judge for 20 years, from 1995 through 2014, returned as the county's top administrator in late March, following the sud...
Dave Rogers For The Record The musical chairs have begun again in Orange County. Orange County Judge Carl Thibodeaux and Precinct 3 Commissioner John Gothia announced their resignations, effective July 10, at Tuesday’s weekly meeting of Orange County Commissioners’ Court. Gothia announced he planned to seek the appointment as new county judge. Before a new county judge can be appointed by commissioners' court, Thibodeaux must fill the vacancy left by Gothia. Kirk Roccaforte, former mayor and current city councilman for Bri...
Photo: Bruce and Donna Self are retiring after owning Burgertown for 24 years. Burgertown reopens July 9 under new management. RECORD PHOTO: Penny LeLeux Penny LeLeux For The Record Fireworks, music, hot dogs and apple pie are what the 4th of July is all about…and burgers. While everyone is enjoying Independence Day activities, there is a changing of the guard underway in Orangefield. After 24 years of running Burgertown, Bruce and Donna Self spent one last day, Friday, in t...
Dave Rogers For The Record Eric Andrus’ fifth term as member of Bridge City’s City Council won’t expire in 2020 as planned. The Place 4 representative announced Tuesday night he is leaving City Council because his family has moved into a home just outside the city limits. “Being able to represent our city has been one of the greatest and most important things I’ve ever done,” said the owner of Central Office Supplies. Andrus was named Citizen of the Year at the last Bridge...
Photo: The grave site of Dannariah Finley at Magnolia Memorial Garden cemetery in Orange. RECORD FILE PHOTO: Mark Dunn Dave Rogers For The Record The annual phone calls are coming in to the Orange Police Department. Thursday marks another anniversary – the 17th – of the disappearance of 4-year-old Dannarriah Finley from her Orange home. Her tiny body was found four days later on Pleasure Island. The unsolved murder is hardly a “cold case,” though. “It’s an active, working cas...
Photo: Developer Penny Wheeler stands in front of the century-old home on 10th Street that she plans to use as a centerpiece for Greens Bluff, a block of shopping spots in Orange’s Historic District. Dave Rogers For The Record Putting some life back into Historic Orange is what Penny Wheeler has up her sleeve. She and her husband Doyle have purchased a block of homes and vacant land near the Orange Train Depot and are starting to convert it into Greens Bluff, a new d...
(ORANGE, TX) – Southern Live Oaks (Quercus virginiana) are among the most majestic and stately trees found in the southern U.S. While they grow in the forests and landscapes of the low country from southern Virginia to Gulf Coast Texas, the epicenter of champion Southern Live Oak trees are the southern Parishes of Louisiana. The oldest and most extraordinary species are more than 1,000 years old with canopies well over 100 feet wide! Most importantly, though, these trees h...
(ORANGE, TX) – The Stark Museum of Art is bringing the great outdoors inside with Conservation Art: Federal Duck Stamps & Prints. The exhibition opens July 13, 2019 and continues through January 4, 2020. This exhibition celebrates the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, popularly known as the Duck Stamp. A set of stamps and prints, from the beginning in 1934-1935 through 2000-2001, is on view. In addition to viewing the stamps and prints, visitors can go o...
Dave Rogers For The Record Before you know it, it will time to stand up and be counted. The U.S. Constitution requires that each decade we take a count of America’s population and the goal of the 2020 U.S. Census is to count everyone once, only once, and in the right place. “In our area, we know we’ve lost residents after [Tropical Storm] Harvey,” Bob Dickinson of the Southeast Texas Regional Planning Council said. “It’s important to get the highest participation in the 2020...
Photo: Workers for Vidor’s Marsh Waterproofing install framework around new windows on the front of the Orange County Courthouse Tuesday. Work on the courthouse entrance is set for to be finished by mid-July. Dave Rogers For The Record Orange County’s new outside auditors, Weaver and Tidwell of Conroe, ranked the county’s bookkeeping “the highest level you can receive” Tuesday. The five-member panel in the high chairs of the County Commissioners’ Court was all smiles. “It...
Photo: Day five of Cowboy Church’s new children’s church by Baptist Church Builders of Texas. Photos courtesy of Pam Honeycutt. Penny LeLeux For The Record Cowboy Church of Orange County is the beneficiary of a program where families spend their summer vacation building churches. Each third full week in June Baptist Church Builders of Texas volunteers travel at their own expense to somewhere in the United States. They help churches with their building projects. Theresa Agn...
