Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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The Orange Recreation Center is hosting the annual Youth Summer Sports Camp! Starting May 28th, camp will be held for five weeks from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Tuesdays through Fridays until June 28th. This staff-supervised, co-ed sports camp for ages 7-12 offers fundamentals and skills of a new sport each week, including basketball, volleyball, pickleball, and flag football! Weekly Schedule: • Week 1 (May 28 – May 31): Basketball • Week 2 (June 4 – 7): Pickleball • Week 3 (June 11...
The Stark Foundation is pleased to announce Jennifer Dickinson has been named executive director of Stark Art and History, which includes the Stark Museum of Art and the Eunice R. Benckenstein Library and Archive. Dickinson, who has been with the Stark Museum of Art since 2013, previously served as director of education and most recently as interim director. Dickinson holds an associate degree, as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in studio art from the University of Montevallo...
The Elvis and Marilyn sculptures are still standing in the storefront window on Tenth Street at Main in downtown Orange. Maybe if you look closely, they are shedding tears, too, like many real people across Orange County. Local business icon Harry Stephens, who owned Harry's Appliances for 61 years died on Sunday at the age of 82. He was the epitome of a small-town business owner who offered old-fashioned personal service and advocated for supporting all local businesses. Roy...
Glenda Dyer, an educated chemist who developed an affinity for the ink of newspapers, including nearly every paper in Orange County, died at her family farm in Tennessee, where she had moved nearly 20 years ago with her husband, Paul. Her newspaper career began in the 1970s when the now-deceased editor of the Orange Leader gave her a job. She went on to become the first woman editor of the Leader in 1998. In the 1980s, she owned, published and edited her own weekly paper, The...
Sales taxes for the largest entities were down for the month of February, but Bridge City, Vidor, and Pinehurst had increases. Orange County, which has a 0.5 percent sales tax, collected $482,265 for the month, a drop of nearly $103,000, or a decrease of 17.56 percent from February 2023. The county is slightly down for sales tax collections for the year to date, collecting $2.46 million for the first four months of the year, a drop of about $30,000, or a decrease of 1.45...
Most cities and school districts in Orange County were able to cancel their May 4 elections because of no contested races, but the races and issues on ballots are drawing out voters. The current election is not the same as the May 28 Republican primary run-off for state representative. As of Tuesday evening, the second day of early voting, A total of 326 people in the county voted in person, with another 238 from mail-in ballots for a total of 564. The votes casts at the four...
The Texas Association of School Boards had a Legislative Advisory Council meeting during the weekend with two representatives from Orange County attending. The group discussed the TASB priorities for the 2025 Texas legislative session. Representing Region 5 were, center, WO-C Board President Linda Platt-Bryant, and right, Bridge City Board Vice President Paul Zoch. The other regional representative was Andrew Brooks, left, from Hardin-Jefferson school board...
My name is David Rutledge, and for the past 8 years it has been my privilege to serve as your Bridge City Mayor. My family moved to Bridge City in 1960, I attended school here and graduated from BCHS in 1971. In 1973 I married my high school sweetheart, Rebecca (“Bear” Hall), and we raised our family here. Our three daughters all graduated from BCHS and have blessed us with five grandchildren. You could say we all bleed Cardinal red. I graduated from Lamar University with a d...
The OneStar Foundation, the official non-profit for the state, has announced that the Orange County Disaster Rebuild is one of the recipients of the Governor's Volunteer Awards. The group is one of 11 individuals and organizations receiving the award. It was cited under the category of the Rebuild Texas Disaster Impact Award. The awards were announced by Texas First Lady Cecelia Abbott. Orange County Commissioners created the disaster rebuild group in May 2018, months after Hu...
Events in Texas 188 years ago moved quickly toward Texas becoming an independent nation, and what is now Orange County had a prominent role. One resident signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and another fought at the battle of San Jacinto. The Battle of San Jacinto anniversary is marked every April 21. The short, 18-minute battle led by General Sam Houston, led to the surrender of the Mexican president and leader Santa Anna. Soon, prisoner Santa Anna was led to the...
A mother-daughter road trip to follow the sun and the solar eclipse turned into a discovery of longtime family history in Orange County. We are descendants of the Pevoto, Bland, and Harmon families, original settlers. My daughter, Kate Robards, a writer and performer in New York City, flew in to travel with me to see the total eclipse. We invited ourselves to stay with my paternal cousin Judith Garrett Segura and her husband, Avelino, at their home in Lantana, a community in...
The Salvation Army of Orange County is once again looking for food donations to stock their pantry so local individuals and families can get help so they are not hungry. Board President Katie Durio said businesses and clubs are welcomed to hold food drives to help. Individual donations are also needed and may be taken to the local Salvation Army at 1950 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Orange. The office opens weekday mornings at 9 a.m. Foods donated should not be past their...
Orangefield High School's UIL entry in the One-Act Play competition last weekend won its latest round and is advancing to the regional competition at Blinn College on April 26. It is the first time an Orangefield drama department has advanced that far. Angelique Catt is the drama teacher. Catalina Lawley and Rylie Kethan were named to the all-star cast and Kimber Carpenter received the Outstanding Tech Award....
Precinct 1 Commissioner Johnny Trahan warned boaters to be on the lookout for logs and other debris washing down the Sabine River after flooding last week in Newton and Jasper counties, north of Orange. The flooding has also led to the Sabine River Authority opening flood gates at Toledo Bend Reservoir as the level got above the legal maximum. Trahan said he was called last week to Texas Highway 12 in Deweyville north of his precinct to look at the log jam at the Sabine River...
The Mauriceville Heritage Association proudly announces the successful hosting of the 43rd annual pageant, in conjunction with the highly anticipated 2024 Crawfish Bash, scheduled to take place from May 3rd to May 4th. For over four decades, our association has curated an unforgettable experience not just as a pageant, but as a cherished tradition that resonates in the hearts and minds of local young women, leaving a lasting legacy for generations to come. The Miss Orange...
The eclipse wasn’t the only strange sighting in Orange County over the last few days. Saturday, pictures started showing up of local residents with four-time heavyweight boxing champ Evander Holyfield at K-Dan’s in Orangefield. The champ was eating breakfast with his good friend Craig Stilley. He had flown in overnight to attend the retirement party later that night honoring Stilley’s father, Dan Stilley. Retirement party isn’t really accurate, because the older Stilley...
Sometimes in life, a person ends up where they were meant to be. Krispen Walker is one of those people. The West Orange-Stark High graduate on January 1 will become the new district attorney for Orange County, replacing John Kimbrough, who is retiring after 32 years. She will be the first woman district attorney in county history. Being a criminal prosecutor had not been in her original plans. She took a job with a private law firm after graduating from law school, taking on...
People in Bridge City will see another construction traffic problem this week as the new Entergy Orange County Advanced Power Station has night work. Crews will be working from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. on April 7 through April 14. The current phase of work will involve laying concrete foundations to support the new power plant. Entergy said residents near the project zone should prepare for increased truck traffic during the next few weeks. People traveling in the area should be...
Bridge City Mayor David Rutledge was recently recognized as a "Certified Municipal Official" by the Texas Municipal League (TML) and the Texas Association of Mayors, Councilmembers and Commissioners (TAMCC). This recognition is given annually to public officials who have completed at least 72 continuing education units (CEU's) in city governance, communications, federal and state legislation affecting cities, economic development, revenue and taxation issues, and other topics...
Coach H.N. "Moe" Litton, who worked more 30 years for Bridge City High School as a coach and athletic trainer, is legendary in the thoughts of his former students. His family keeps his legacy alive by supporting a college scholarship each year to a graduating Bridge City senior. The H.N. Litton Scholarship Golf Tournament is the annual fundraiser for the scholarship and this year it will be April 27 at Babe Zaharias Golf Course. The deadline to register is April 13. The...
Bridge City, TX – Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation announced the award of a $22,043.80 grant to Orange County ESD #2/Bridge City Fire & Rescue to ensure first responders have the necessary equipment to keep community members and themselves safe. The grant will be used to purchase Autopulse External Defibrillator fulfilling a critical need within the department. “On behalf of the department and its members, I want to thank the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation and...
Utility reminds everyone to contact 811 before digging – including gardening, building a fence or installing a mailbox – to keep our communities safe. CenterPoint Energy is collaborating with the Common Ground Alliance to observe April as National Safe Digging Month and encourage customers to follow safe digging practices. Anyone planning a project that requires digging should contact 811 at least two days prior to their work starting to have underground utilities located at...
My name is Carl Harbert and I would like to announce that I am running for Mayor of Bridge City. I have lived in Bridge City for the last 39 years. My wife Theresa and I raised our children here. We are members of First Baptist Church-Bridge City. I am a retired Plant Manager/Operations Manager of a fertilizer plant in Beaumont. I recently served four years on the Bridge City City Council. While serving on City Council, I focused on getting drainage problems resolved and...
Orange County Sheriff's deputies will be getting a pay raise thanks to a rural law enforcement grant of $500,000. Commissioners Court Tuesday voted to accept the grant from the Texas State Comptroller's Office. County Judge John Gothia said Sheriff Jimmy Lane Mooney decided to use the money to divide between the 114 eligible employees in his office. The county is supposed to get another $500,000 grant again next year. Precinct 2 Commissioner Chris Sowell said the grant is "to...
Light up Saturday, September 14, on the calendars because the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce hopes to illuminate the dark that night with a hot air balloon festival. Chamber Director Mandy Lyda said plans have not been finished, yet, but the event is set for that date at the Bridge City Elementary-Intermediate school area off West Roundbunch Road. The event will allow the public to see hot air balloons lit and glowing in the night. The festival will include vendors with arts...
