Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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RECORD PHOTOS: Dave Rogers Photo: Mayor Larry Spears, Jr., and Carrie Woliver, leader of the effort to restore the Orange Depot, show off the proclamation declaring March 7 “Orange Depot Day.” Dave Rogers For The Record Orange Mayor Larry Spears, Jr., said citizens’ efforts to restore the Orange Southern Pacific Train Depot touched off a positive can-do vibe in the city. He said it last week during a ceremony celebrating the granting of a historical marker by the Texas Histo...
Dave Rogers For The Record The city of Orange passed an ordinance Tuesday authorizing the issuance of $8 million in tax and revenue certificates of obligation. The 20-year bonds, previously agreed upon by council members, would be used to pay for converting the Orange Natatorium into an indoor recreation complex, building a pavilion at the Orange Boat Ramp, for road repairs and streetscape improvements. According to Guy Goodson of Germer Law Firm, the bonds were purchased by The Baker Group of Oklahoma City with a net...
Photo: Morgan Taylor and Nancy Beward look over some of the paperwork concerning Orange County’s recovery from Hurricane Harvey Tuesday at the Orange County Convention and Expo Center. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record Since March of last year, Orange County has approved more than $5 million worth of paperwork assignments to grant management consultants Wendorf Beward & Partners of Houston. That has already resulted in the county paying the company more t...
St. Mary Student Council attended the Texas Association of Student Councils District 17 Spring Convention at the Beaumont Civic Center. Once again, our council received Sweepstakes status for being an Outstanding Student Council along with Outstanding Energy and Environment, Pride and Patriotism, Drugs, Alcohol, Safety, Health and Community Service. The council is under the direction of Angie Smith. Pictured are front (left to right) William Pitre, Abby Broussard, Grace...
(ORANGE, Texas) – Little Cypress – Mauriceville High School students Darby Watson and Jordan Alexander earned first place in Declamation and Interpretive Reading, respectively, at the school-level finals of the 115th Miriam Lutcher Stark Contest in Reading and Declamation, a scholarship program sponsored by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation. On Sunday, March 3, 2019, LCM High School students competed in the local-level contest, which was coordinated by Mel...
Students who plan to take Advanced Placement exams for the AP courses in which they are enrolled should sign up in the Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School counseling office between March 4 and March 28. For non-economically disadvantaged students, the cost will be $94 per exam. The subsidies for economically disadvantaged students have not yet been determined by the state. Economically disadvantaged students may still sign up now. Their payment will be collected when cost is determined (it is usually under $20 per exam)....
Photo: Nathan Miller, 13, will be returning to the Bridge City with his gecko,Leo. Nathan will read a book about the summer adventures of a boy taking care of the class pet. Debby Schamber For the Record The Bridge City Library has exciting events planned for the public of all ages. With spring right around the corner and as people start working in their yards, it is important to know what kind of dangers may be lurking around too. The Bridge City Library is hosting an event...
Capt. Dickie Colburn For the Record Catching fish is not simply a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Just ask Orange angler, Eddie Hudson! Not only is a little luck required, but more importantly, it is a matter of having your lure or bait at the right place at the right time.Last week Hudson did just that and officially owning the new Toledo Bend lake record for spotted bass is now little more than a formality. “I had fished virtually every lure in the box at every depth and hadn’t gotten the first str...
Bridge City school leaders and representatives of the baseball and softball teams cut the ribbon on the district’s revamped Baseball/Softball Complex Tuesday afternoon. The project added artificial turf infields and Bermuda grass outfields, new dugouts, bleachers, batting cages, concession stands and scoreboards. BCISD school board members cutting the ribbon on the new complex are (in red jackets) left to right: Rebecca Rutledge, Mark Anderson, Jerry McInnis, Thad Hill, J...
Photo: Tony Nguyen is set to open Reel Cajun Seafood and Bar at Orange's Sunset Grove Country Club this spring. The restaurant menu features a "mashup of Asian and Cajun" flavors, according to Nguyen. Dave Rogers For The Record An Orange dining and party destination since the Roaring 20s has gotten a new owner and overhaul and is poised to announce its grand opening this spring. Tony Nguyen, who formerly worked in the kitchen at Esther’s Seafood in Port Arthur, says he will a...
Photo by Tommy Mann Jr. Rock act 3 Doors Down brought its acoustic “Back Porch Jam” tour to the Golden Nugget Casino in Lake Charles, La., this past Saturday, March 2, 2019, and delivered a spectacular 17-song, 90-minute performance in front of a near-capacity crowd. The band performed hit songs “It’s Not My Time,” “Duck and Run,” “Loser,” “Be Like That,” “Kryptonite,” “Here Without You” and “When I’m Gone” and more, while surrounded by approximately a dozen fans who purc...
Dave Rogers For The Record While public officials speak periodically about losing a lot of experienced employees of the Baby Boomer generation to retirement, Orange County Sheriff Keith Merritt faced the reality from a unique perspective Tuesday. Two of the 10 action items on a 30-minute agenda for the weekly Orange County Commissioners’ Court meeting involved voting to allow retiring sheriff’s deputies to purchase their department-issued guns from the county. Merritt said that in retiring Investigator Gary Hinton and ret...
Dave Rogers For The Record Thanks to FEMA’s promise to replace infrastructure lost to the 2017 Tropical Storm Harvey, two Orange County buildings will be getting new addresses for new structures and a third will be getting a make-over. Commissioners voted recently to authorize construction of a new building adjacent to the County Convention & Expo Center on FM 1442 to house the Vidor Sheriff’s Office Substation and to purchase a new modular building to replace the Vidor office for Women and Infants Children [WIC] at 165 Eas...
Dave Rogers For The Record Orange Mayor Larry Spears, Jr., recognized Black History Month by calling a roll of past and present African-American leaders in his community. "We want to recognize African-American history month. To reflect on the past because we did not get here on our own. Somebody blazed the trail for us," Spears said. At the city’s only meeting during the month of February, on Tuesday, Feb. 26, he saluted: James Zay, Tessie Smith, Johnny Riggs, Essie Bellfield, Gladys and Johnny Turner, Theresa and Richard T...
The annual spelling bee, the main fundraiser for GOALS (Greater Orange Area Literacy Services), is set for Friday, March 22, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the Lamar State College-Orange Student Gym. The theme of the Spelling Bee this year is "Books and Storybook Characters." Master of Ceremonies will once again be KFDM-TV weather personality Dana Melancon. Teams of three spellers plus one cheer support person are encouraged to register at the GOALS office, 520 Decatur, Orange 77630, with Rhonda Powell, Director, at 409.886.4311....
Due to unfavorable weather conditions impacting the Orange area, the Orange Convention and Visitors Bureau has CANCELED the Orange Riverfront Car Show event. The car show was scheduled to be held from 9 A.M. to 2 P.M. on Saturday, March 2, at the Riverfront Boardwalk and Pavilion. For additional information, please contact the Orange Convention and Visitors Bureau at 409.883.1011 or 409.883.1010....
Orange city councilman Bill Mello, left is welcomed back by councilman Paul Burch and Kelvin Knauf, acting city manager, at Tuesday's city council meeting. Mello was diagnosed with brain cancer in late January. He cracked several welcome jokes at the meeting but said he still must undergo months of radiation and chemotherapy sessions. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers...
Photo by Tommy Mann Jr. Rockers 3 Doors Down return to the Golden Nugget Casino in Lake Charles, La., for the second time in 20 months as the band concludes its “Back Porch Jam” acoustic tour this Saturday, March 2. The Record A rock band which is no stranger to music fans in the region is returning this weekend. Rock act 3 Doors Down returns to Southwest Louisiana this Saturday, March 2, for a performance inside the Grand Event Center of the Golden Nugget Casino in Lake Cha...
"Change of date and time" On Wednesday, February 27, at 2:30 PM, members of the Orange County Master Gardeners will be planting 14 hearty rose bushes in the park adjacent the Orange Train Depot Museum as a generous donation to the Friends of the Orange Depot. This past Monday, Clyde Davis, a rosarian from the county, gave the Gardeners instructions on trimming and digging up the roses located in Cormier Park in Orangefield. According to member Sandra Hoke, also a volunteer for the FOOD organization, these roses were chosen...
The Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce visited Little Cypress-Mauriceville to recognize the Chamber’s Student and Employee of the Month on Tuesday, February 26. Nyah Patel was selected as the Student of the Month and Angie Eikenhorst was named Employee of the Month. Angie Eikenhorst was hired to teach kindergarten at Little Cypress Elementary in 1995, which she describes as a “dream come true.” She remained in kindergarten for 10 years and then had the opportunity to te...
The number "19" is as important to women receiving the right to vote as the number "13" was to the original colonies, or as the number "16" was to the territory of Oklahoma when it became a state on November 16, 1907. Why was this "19" so important? It was on July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York, that the first women's rights convention was held. Currently, it is the year 2019, the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving...
Dave Rogers For The Record “I go day to day thinking about baseball. My life revolves around baseball. I’m a baseball player and I play baseball.” Bridge City’s Chase Shugart is living his dream. The right-handed pitcher, a 12th-round draft pick last June out of the University of Texas, is beginning his first pro baseball spring training camp with the Boston Red Sox at Fort Myers, Florida. After agreeing to a $125,000 signing bonus, Shugart spent a couple of months in Fort Mye...
His brothers and sisters practicing Tiger Rock Martial Arts here in Bridge City know him as Mr. Line but his friends call him Chris. At the age of 75 years old, he has been training in martial arts at Tiger Rock Martial Arts of Bridge City since January 2015. Beginning his martial arts journey at the age of 72 years young. The question most people ask Chris is why? Why did he decide to train in martial arts? Well, he was retired and keeping himself busy on the computer and...
Photo: Roger Boehme, left, marvels at the energy of his mother, Gwen Boehme, a 98-year-old who utilizes a Lamar State Orange exercise class to stay young. RECORD PHOTO: Dave Rogers Dave Rogers For The Record Gwen Boehme has the recipe for lifelong fitness and, at 98 years of age, she knows a little bit about living. “I grew up in the country,” she said. “I had to pick stuff out of the garden. I took care of a lot of fruit. I helped pick it and can it.” That, she explain...
For the Record Following the death of two-year-old Savanna Roque by the hands of her father, Geo Roque, his family is still searching for answers as this was not the man they knew. Yohavnis "Geo" Roque and his brother, Lazaro Roque, grew up in Florida. According to their mother, the boys had it all. Each had their own room and Christmas was a spectacular event in the young boys lives. Geo had an interest in dinosaurs and outer space as a boy. His mother went to the library on...
