Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Raema Lyda, escorted by her father, Chris, was crowned 2023 Homecoming Queen for Bridge City High during ceremonies this past Friday on Moe Litton Field. Other seniors in the court were Ashley Hale, Carson Fall, and Holly Silveira. Hallie Bearden and Emily Black served as junior class representatives on the court, while Marleigh Boyd and Hudsyn Davis were the juniors. Freshmen were Clair Danks and Kenzie Fontenot....
Members of the Honey Bears dance team along with football players from Little Cypress-Mauriceville High volunteered to help the local dog rescue group sponsored by Traci James to entice adopters for pups in the Pinehurst Animal Shelter. Retired West Orange-Stark High teacher Lacey Gunn Hale donates her photography skills for James to show off shelter dogs. All the cities in the county have full shelters of grown dogs and puppies....
The city of West Orange is preparing for the 22nd Annual Holiday in the Park and a few vendor spaces are still available. The event this year will be Saturday, November 4, at Seal-Alford Plaza next to city hall on Western Avenue. This will be the second year the festival will have a classic car show so people can look at restored vintage cars. Holiday in the Park features lots of vendors selling food, home decor, arts and crafts, and gifts. A lot of the items can help people...
People living in the Orangefield area may be deciding whether to keep the non-profit Orangefield Water Supply Corporation or become a state water district. A town hall meeting was held Tuesday evening for discussion and a presentation on the differences. Water districts in the county are operated in West Orange, the Vidor area, and Mauriceville. Some rural areas are serviced by private water companies or individual wells. The state of Texas has separate rules and regulations...
Dear Orange County residents, It's been an honor serving as your Sheriff for the past four years, and I want to express my heartfelt gratitude for your unwavering support. Today, I stand before you to humbly ask for your vote once again, as we continue to build upon the progress we've made together. Throughout my tenure, we have achieved significant milestones and implemented positive changes that have transformed the Orange County Sheriff's Office like never before. Allow me...
The Bridge City High School Alumni Association has chosen two alumni as Distinguished Alumni for 2023. Danny Jaynes, a Bridge City High School graduate in 1971 along with Dr. Nina Scales Leifeste, a 1979 BCHS graduate. They will be honored during ceremonies prior to the homecoming game on Friday, September 22 and again at The Classic Cardinal Reunion on Saturday, September 23 at the BCHS cafeteria beginning at 5:00 p.m. Danny Jaynes' parents, Turner, and Francis Jaynes, moved...
Casie Graves was playing with her baby daughter Friday and was so enamored with the child that she posted a video of the little cutie for her friends to see. Sometime between the time of the video post and Saturday afternoon, Casie Graves was murdered and her body dumped along a road to an industrial site. Now, the Orange County Sheriff's Office is hoping the public can help find her killer, or killers. The sheriff's office was called at 5:20 Saturday afternoon when someone...
The local economy is growing, but not everyone has a high-paying job. Even families with two working parents are finding it harder to pay bills as food and gas prices go up along with utilities and insurance. Some people across the county are skipping meals. "There's a lot of people still struggling to pay their bills," said Melissa Isaacs, executive director of the Bridge City-Orangefield Ministerial Alliance. The Ministerial Alliance and other groups with food pantries acros...
In Texas, the high school homecoming football week is a memorable experience for the community, and this week, Bridge City High is having unforgettable events. It will end Friday night at Larry Ward Stadium-Moe Litton Field when the Cardinals take on Hamshire-Fannett. The team is now 2-2 for the season after a loss last week to Lumberton. The homecoming queen will be crowned during the ceremonies and new inductees will be presented for the Bridge City High School alumni hall...
Fifty-five minutes travel time between Orange and Bridge City. The growing pains are blooming and people are grumbling. Traffic between Orange and Bridge City has become a cluster mess in recent months as construction moves ahead at the new $8.5 billion Golden Triangle Polymers plant on Texas Highway 87. This week, all southbound traffic on Highway 87 will be closed during certain hours. Southbound lanes are the ones traveling from Orange to Bridge City. Beginning on Tuesday,...
It is with much pride and humility that I announce my intention to run for Judge of the County Court at Law #2 in the March 2024 Republican Primary and the November 2024 General Election. Having spent almost 24 years in the courtroom, I have the experience necessary to serve as judge for the County Court at Law #2. As a lawyer in private practice, I have stood beside both plaintiffs and defendants in over a thousand civil, criminal and family law cases. I have handled cases...
On Saturday, September 16, 2023, around 5:21pm., the Orange County Sheriff’s Office was called to a local business, International Paper, in reference to the discovery of a body at the truck entrance. The body was located near the train tracks on the south side. The victim has been identified as Casie Lynn Graves, a 38 year old white female. The preliminary autopsy report indicates Ms. Graves was the victim of a homicide. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Inv...
Orange County Commissioners Court approved a lower property tax rate compared to last year, but because of an overall increase in property values, taxpayers may be paying an average of 17 percent more in their county property taxes. The court Tuesday approved the tax rate, along with a budget of $59 million. The budget is for the 2023-24 fiscal year, which starts on October 1. The tax rate will go with the new budget, though the due date for property taxes to be paid is the en...
A Sunday afternoon wildfire that started in a wooded area off Gist Road quickly spread through the dry and dying leaves leading to homes being evacuated. No lives or buildings were lost. By late Tuesday afternoon, the Texas Forest Service and Orange County Emergency Management reported the fire had burned 417 acres and was 75 percent contained. Jets and helicopters were used to dump water or fire retardants. Still, earlier on Tuesday, a resident living across the street from...
Kirk Roccaforte was Bridge City mayor on September 13, 2008. He and his emergency team from the city were quartered with other county first responders and officials at Mauriceville Elementary School in the north part of the county waiting for Hurricane Ike to come ashore. Though the worse part of the storm hit Galveston as a Category 2 hurricane, no one here could have predicted what happened in Orange County. Ike was the "perfect storm" that sent a storm surge straight from...
The W.H. Stark House invites the community to First Floor Friday on September 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Guests will have the opportunity to view the first floor of the historic home, as well as visit "Brilliant: Cut Glass from The W.H. Stark House" located in the Carriage House. Admission to The W.H. Stark House is free of charge. "This is a great opportunity to view the House and our latest exhibition in the Carriage House," said Tabitha Henderson, education and programming...
Lamar State College Orange announced today that a record number of 763 degrees and certificates were awarded during the 2022-2023 academic year. This represents a 20% increase in the number of degrees and certificates awarded from the 2021-2022 academic year. The previous record was set in the 2019-2020 academic year when a total of 665 degrees and certificates were conferred. “I’m so proud of our students and their accomplishments here at LSCO,” President Tom Johnson said....
On Wednesday, September 6, 2023, at about 8:20 P.M., the City of Orange Police Department Criminal Investigations Division was notified of a threat made via social media (Instagram) toward members of the West Orange ISD faculty. The Criminal Investigation Division deemed the threat serious and credible. The division immediately utilized investigators to begin the investigation into the threat. During the investigation, Detectives were able to identify and locate a juvenile...
The 1940 high school football season here was supposed to be a great one with a fancy new stadium for Orange High, but it ended up a strange one. After two games, the coach was gone and so was the director of the famous girls drum and bugle corps. And all events came about because of the late H.J. Lutcher Stark, patron of Orange High School and the University of Texas. Stark, a native of Orange and an heir to the great Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company, was a local leader and...
Heat readings for the summer of 2023 have reached a record high, with the Orange County Airport gauges recording 32 days of 100 degrees or hotter for June through August. Two more 100 degree days have already happened in September. And as Orange County continues to sizzle with only scattered rain, smoke from marsh fires and grass fires fills the dry air. "People are scared, and rightly so," said Captain Joey Jacobs of the Orange County Sheriff's Office. He is licensed to pilot...
Veteran law enforcement officer Joey Jacobs will be running in the March Republican primary for constable of Precinct 4, which covers the Vidor area. He has worked in law enforcement for 27 years, including 24 with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, where he has earned his way from patrol deputy to captain of detectives, overseeing the Criminal Investigations Division. He grew up in Vidor, where he graduated from high school, and he now lives there with his wife and two...
Members of the Bridge City Police Department and the Bridge City Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department worked together to collect more than 4,000 items to donate to the Southeast Texas Food Bank, which helps local charity groups supply food items for needy individuals and families. The police department also gave the fire department a "Thin Blue Line" flag to display....
The new Orange Recreation Center has set its September schedule that includes a youth 3-on-3 co-ed basketball tournament at the end of the month. The center on Orange Avenue at the site of the old natatorium, is open Tuesdays through Saturdays. Because of high school football season, the center will be closing early, at 5 p.m., on Fridays for the games. In the mornings from 8:30 to 10:30 on Tuesdays through Saturdays, senior citizen walking is scheduled. Senior citizens,...
Orange County continues on the path for more industrial growth as two projects have been approved for possible tax abatements from the state and local entities. Orange County Commissioners Court Tuesday approved a resolution approving a Reinvestment Zone a 435.4 acres outside of Bridge City. County Economic Development Director Megan Layne said the area is known as Humble Island. Its a tract of land that on the banks of the Neches River that sticks out near the Veterans Memori...
Texas has 774 new state laws starting on September 1 that will affect different aspects from criminal laws to regulations for businesses that get state licensing. The Texas Legislature meets in odd-numbered years and passes a myriad of laws and regulations that usually begin on the first day of September after the legislative session. The newest laws and regulations were set by the 88th Texas Legislature that met earlier this year. Orange County's State Representative Dade Phe...
