Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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West Orange officials want residents to take advantage of the city's annual spring cleanup by taking their cast-off furniture, appliances, and other items to the free dumpster service on Friday and Saturday. Mayor Randy Branch said the cleanup event is part of the city council's on-going effort to removed trash and improve the appearance of neighborhoods. The city is sponsoring the event with the dumpsters being set up behind the West Orange Volunteer Fire Department, on...
Life jackets helped save four adults and two children the evening of Easter Sunday when their boat capsized after taking on water in the Sabine River by Pavell Island. The U.S. Coast Guard's Houston-Galveston region issued a press release saying a rescue boat from the Sabine station picked the family up after being notified by the Orange County Sheriff's Office of a 9-1-1 call. The call to the sheriff's office came at 7:54 p.m. Sheriff's Chief Deputy Mark Dubois said deputies...
Bridge City Police Chief Tod McDowell recently gave the oath of office to three new police officers, the first hired and trained under the city's cadet program. The new officers are J. Broussard, N. Noyola, and A. Lawson. They graduated from the Regional Police Academy at Lamar Institute of Technology in Beaumont....
Orange County saw strong sales in January, leading to a 16.5 percent sales tax payment this year, compared to last year. The state comptroller's office in March sent the sales tax payments to the entities with the monthly returns covering January. The year-to-date collections includes the amount of money sent for the calendar year. The county has a half-cent per dollar sales tax that was approved by voters to off-set some of the property taxes. For January this year, the...
Perfect spring weather is in the forecast for the Easter holidays this week, and once again the city of Orange is expecting hundreds of children and their families for the annual Easter Egg Hunt on Good Friday. The free hunt and activities will be at the Riverside Pavilion at the City Boat Ramp off Simmons Drive. Gates will be open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the egg hunt will start promptly at 10 a.m. Children ages 11 and younger should bring baskets to collect the candy eggs. The...
Orange County's most famous landmark is set to get its first facelift in nearly 30 years and the project will require a major traffic change. The Rainbow Bridge will be getting "extensive maintenance" beginning in the late summer or early fall, the Texas Department of Transportation has announced. Traffic on the bridge from Bridge City to Port Arthur will be closed during the project, which is estimated to take 18 months. During that time, the Veterans Memorial Bridge, which...
The West Orange-Cove school district has plans to build a new North Early Learning Center near the elementary school if voters in May approve a $72 million bond proposal. The bulk of the bond money will go toward building the new school to replace the current one on Cordrey Avenue in Orange that was built in 1964. The school district has already acquired 27 acres of land behind West Orange-Stark Elementary School on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Pinehurst. The elementary...
The Bridge City City Council is asking for the Texas Department of Transportation to redesign a traffic detour at the Rainbow Bridge when the landmark will be closed for maintenance later this year. The council in the letter says a plan to install "S" turns for diverting Rainbow Bridge traffic on and off the Veterans Bridge "will lead to an unnecessary and totally avoidable potential for accidents and traffic congestion." TxDOT's plans call for closing the Rainbow Bridge and t...
The Heritage House of Orange County will present Cemetery Walk at Jett Cemetery at 4249 W Park Ave, Orange, TX 77630 on Sunday, April 21, 2024 from 1:00PM to 4:00PM, donation only. The Heritage House Museum is excited to bring back our Cemetery Walk. This year we will highlight graves from Jett Cemetery. Come learn cemetery etiquette while hearing about some of the interesting facts and histories of people that are interred here. This is an outdoor event, be weather aware and...
Codie Vasquez and Halee Watkins from the regional CASA accepted a proclamation from Orange County Commissioners Court declaring April as Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month. The group for volunteers to help abused children go through the legal system during the process to separate them from abusive family, has its regional offices in Orange. County sets free junk boat turn-in for April Orange County's free vessel turn-in program to take in junked boats is set this year...
Fourteen years ago, a grave marker carved with a Fender guitar was placed at the grave site of Grammy-winning singer and musician Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, who is buried in Orange's Hollywood Cemetery. But flood waters continually damaged the marker, which included his quote engraved "I won't limit myself to one type of music. There's a lot of universe out there, and what is the universe? Music." Now, a fan and family friend has started an online fundraiser for money for a...
Crazy hats will be the fashion for the next designer purse bingo party sponsored by the Bridge City Chamber of Commerce and tickets went on sale this week. The fundraiser offers food, drinks and fun, plus a chance to win an expensive designer purse during bingo games. The upcoming one will be Thursday, April 18, at 5:30 p.m. with the theme Mad Hatter, Alice in Wonderland. Each ticket includes dinner, two drink tickets, one bingo card for each round, plus one raffle chance....
Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center invites the public to escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life and partake in their new health-focused program, Wellness Wednesdays. This unique wellness experience provides visitors with an opportunity to start their day with a rejuvenating combination of physical activity and nature. The gardens will open at 7 a.m. every Wednesday through October. Admission to Shangri La Botanical Gardens is free of charge. "Lace up your...
The Explore Orange Convention and Visitors Bureau is excited to announce the 22nd Annual Art in the Park and 5th Annual Car Show on Saturday, April 6th at Stark Park in downtown Orange. This annual celebration showcases the kaleidoscope of talents of local artists alongside the timeless allure of vintage and custom automobiles. With Art in the Park at its traditional location at Stark Park and the impressive Car Show lineup on Front Avenue, these two events will be within...
Rodney Christman, left. was named Bridge City ISD Bus Driver of the Year through the Property Casualty Alliance of Texas (PCAT), a consortium of public school districts. The award is for his outstanding service to the students and staff....
Everyone has heard of the El Nino and La Nina weather patterns. The new pattern is "El Carnivale." It's guaranteed to bring on rain. That's the latest joke from the Orange Lions Club as the community crosses its fingers for good weather during the last four days of this year's charity carnival. But yikes. Rain is in the forecast. The 83rd annual Lions Charity Carnival in Orange will open this Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at Lions Park in Orange. For years, the...
Bridge City Farmers Market to begin on March 23 from 8-11 AM at 101 Parkside in Bridge City. We will have a FULL line up of vendors including locally produced beef, pork, and chicken, a coffee bar, a BBQ food truck, live music, jams/jellies, sourdough baked goods, sweets and treats (yes, even for your dog), skin care products and so much more. There will be limited fresh produce and we are also having a plant sale and seed swap. You are not going to want to miss out on this...
Orange County with the General Land Office and Texas Parks and Wildlife will have a vessel turn in program at the Orange County Citizen Collection Station, 11265 FM 1442 Orange Texas 77630 from 10 am to 6 pm on April 6th, 9th, 11th and 13th. The Vessel Turn In Program provides owners with a free and voluntary method to dispose of their vessels and boats. The GLO sponsors the removal of all fuel, oil and batteries; TPWD verifies ownership and clears the vessels for disposal;...
Will it or won't it rain? That is the question these days any time the Lions Club Carnival is ready to open. The 83rd annual event with rides, food, games, and lots of local volunteers is set to open on Wednesday, March 14, and run Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Then it will begin again on Wednesday, March 21, and that week's Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Right now the National Weather Service in Lake Charles is forecasting some rain later in the week, however the bulk of...
In the Gilded Age, Green Avenue in Orange was lined with mansions and grand houses. The biggest and most elaborate of the mansions was built by J.W. Link, a lawyer who owned a lumber mill. Link also served as mayor of Orange, but a few years later, moved to Houston, where he became a major land developer and founded the Montrose subdivision. His mansion in Houston, similar to his one in Orange, still stands today and serves as administrative offices for St. Thomas University...
The battle for Texas House of Representatives District 21 is now in a runoff and will depend on how many people get out and vote in the Republican primary runoff on May 28. According to the Orange County Elections Administration, the county has 54,871 voters and a little more than 41,000 did not cast a ballot in last week's primary race. Of those voting, 12,834 voted in the Republican primary and only 981 in the Democratic primary. Anyone who did not vote in a primary race...
Guest speakers from Christus Orange and the Port Arthur Fire Department visited with Orangefield High School Health Science classes on Monday. Angela Webb, RN, and Jeremy Kaskos, PAFD Captain, shared information on heart function and statistics on CPR survival rates. Students got hands-on practice of both adult and infant chest compressions, as well as the opportunity to learn about a new technology that is currently beginning to be used in our area. The PAFD has a device...
OHS Patient Care Technician students were able to get an in depth look at the Lamar University Nursing Department and campus this week. Along with learning about the in's and out's of the nursing program and application process, students also got a tour of the building which included a stop at their state of the art simulation lab. Students were able to get hands-on practice, listening to breath sounds and palpating pulses, as well as view a simulation in progress. Thank you...
Retired Texas Ranger Bobby Smith pulled an unusual political win by beating incumbent Sheriff Jimmy Lane Mooney and two others in the Republican primary with a margin wide enough that no runoff will be needed. Also, in a race drawing national attention, David Covey of Mauriceville had a large margin over Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelen for the District 21 state representative. However, the fraction of votes for Alicia Davis of Jasper County appear to have thrown the...
Quilts have long been a way for women to display artistic skills, but do not expect to see any of the "quilts" at the Stark Museum of Art on a bed. These quilts were mean to be hung and displayed as they show the history of African-Americans in the West. The museum now has on display the first of its kind showing of quilting artists who have made simple "paintings" to collages of materials to tell history stories. The exhibit is Black Pioneers: Legacy in the American West. Sta...
