Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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West Orange now has its first Blessing Box for people in need to get food items. Businessman Al Granger and his Team Granger presented the Blessing Box Monday to West Orange First Baptist Church and church member Meritta Kennedy, who is a city councilor. Granger and Kennedy are to the right of the box. On the left are church members Kelly Riley, plus Michael and Meritta Norwood. Donors are free to add non-perishable food items to the box and hungry people are invited to take...
Orange County plus the cities of Orange, West Orange, and Vidor are showing increases in sales tax collections for the month of June, according to information from the Texas Comptroller's Office. The city of Orange was listed with a whopping nearly 80 percent increase in sales taxes with $1.11 million collected for sales during the month, compared to $632,405 in collected in 2022. That puts the city up 27.14 percent for the year to date with $6.41 million compared to $5.04 mil...
The City of Orange has initiated Stage 2 of the Drought Contingency Plan. Stage 2 water restrictions are MANDATORY, and expand the voluntary Stage 1 restrictions to include other non-essential water usage regarding: • Washing vehicles, except for commercial car washes and service stations • Filling swimming pools and operating ornamental fountains • Serving water at restaurants, except upon request • Power washing, wash downs, dust control, and flushing gutters City of Oran...
ORANGE, TX – Lamar State College Orange is proud to announce 25 students named to the Dean’s and President’s List for the Summer 2023 semester. Congratulations on all your hard work and dedication. Students named to the President’s list must be enrolled in at least 12 hours of courses and earn a 4.0 grade point average (GPA) for the semester. BEAUMONT, TX Brittany Banks, Massage Therapy; Aseel Rabah Bassa, Dental Assisting FRED, TX Lindsey Danielle Ratcliff, Pre-Voc...
Orange County came close Sunday for adding a wildfire to its growing list of recent disaster history. Forty acres of dense woods burned for hours Sunday afternoon in the Little Cypress area west of Highway 87 North as Orange County reached its record temperature of 106 degrees. Little Cypress Fire Chief Matt Manshack said for the first couple of hours, firefighters feared the fire could spread to the Country Squire subdivision. The Texas Forest Service was already on...
Joe Kazmar was born and raised in New York state and became a successful businessman in Orange. But though he made his mark in the car business, he will be long remembered for his sports knowledge. Kazmar died last week at the age of 81 after an illness. He moved to Orange in the late 1960s when he took a job as a sportswriter at the Orange Leader, when the newspaper was a daily and the offices were on Front Street in downtown, across the street from the shipyards. Like many a...
Mrs. Kimberly Spears is the Ready, Set, Teach, teacher at Orangefield High School. She has been in the education field for 19 years and has been a teacher at Orangefield High School for 16 years. Miss Farmer, as she was known in 2007, was asked to teach a class to Orangefield High School students, that would introduce them to the world of education. The class would be called, "Ready, Set, Teach". Fun Facts about the people in the picture: • Danielle (Graffagnino) Sheppard and...
Orangefield school district voters in November will decide on a $43 million bond issue for more classrooms at all three campuses, a new high school library and cafeteria, plus improvements at the elementary and junior high campuses. Board members say the projects improve school safety. The school board Monday night unanimously called for the bond issue decision to be held on November 7, general election day. The district said the amount will be $42.9 million. The bonds, if...
Bridge City High School had a public opening Monday afternoon to show off the cosmetology labs in the school's new CTE building. The $14.7 million Career and Technology Education building is a project of the district's 2022 bond issue. Jessica Jones is the director of the cosmetology department, which currently has 52 students preparing to earn state licenses. Dr. Mike Kelly is superintendent of the Bridge City ISD and Rebecca Rutledge is president of the board of...
WOCCISD is proud to announce the launch of its innovative and fully equipped mobile learning lab, a solution funded by the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Relief (ESSER) grant. Pioneered by Dr. Alicia Sigee, Director of Student Services at WOCCISD, the new mobile classroom is committed to providing an adaptable learning environment for various learning needs and community engagement. The mobile classroom redefines traditional learning methods. This state-of-the-art vehicle...
Emergency grant applications are now open for volunteer fire departments included in Governor Abbott's wildfire disaster declaration. “Volunteer firefighters are our first line of defense against wildfires in Texas,” said Wes Moorehead, Texas A&M Forest Service Fire Chief. “During this active summer season, these firefighters are responding to wildfires daily. They work in extreme conditions that not only challenge them physically but also cause their equipment to becom...
As Many of us know, here in in southeast Texas, August is the time we focus on the Gulf. Many of us have experienced hurricanes, floodings, tornados and industrial disasters and we are reminded by our county and city officials to have a plan in these cases. Materials are available online and packets are located at the Orange County Emergency Management at 11475 FM 1442, Orange, TX 77630 and have been distributed throughout the year but remember you may need to modify your plan...
City of Orange water customers are requested to voluntarily limit the irrigation of landscaped areas to Sundays and Thursdays for customers with a street address ending in an even number (0, 2, 4, 6 or 8), and Saturdays and Wednesdays for water customers with a street address ending in an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7 or 9), and to irrigate landscapes only between the hours of midnight and 10:00 am and 8:00 pm to midnight on designated watering days. This is voluntary and...
Maplecrest Baptist Church in Vidor will host a "Faith, Family, Freedom" conference featuring two speakers prominent in the Conservative Christian movement against homosexual and transgender rights, and promotion of laws to prohibit abortion. The conference will begin the evening of Friday, August 18, and then with all-day sessions on Saturday. The speakers will be Abraham Hamiliton III, a lawyer who serves as general counsel and public policy analyst for the American Family...
Heritage House Museum on Sunday, August 20, will have a special opening of a new exhibit entitled "Team Spirit" about local high school sports. The come-and-go opening is from 2 to 5 p.m. and will feature Joel Robins. Robins was an all-around Stark High athlete in the 1960s, starting as Tiger quarterback and getting a baseball scholarship to Texas A&M. After retiring as a chemical engineer, he began researching Orange sports history, tracking down the first Orange High teams...
Daniel McLemore knows he found his work home at LSCO. He only has to spend 15 minutes now to travel from his residence in Orangefield. As a veteran of marketing and advertising, he's not accustomed to being so close to his family. For years, he's had to travel 30 to 35 miles to his office. McLemore, an Orangefield resident, is the new LSCO director of marketing and communications. Before he lived in Orangefield, he lived in Bridge City. He and his wife, Chelsea, have a...
Brown leaves are falling off of trees and the grass is dry and brown. But now in Bridge City, residents are being asked to restrict their watering. The National Weather Service's gauges at the Orange County Airport on Tuesday afternoon reached 105, which could set a record for heat. The county remains under an excessive heat warning by the weather service. The service warns that "very dry conditions and accumulated heat increase the potential for heat-related illnesses and...
The students in the Bridge City High School Class of 2024 gathered early Tuesday morning for the school's traditional senior sunrise event to celebrate their final year at the school. Classes start on Wednesday, August 16, for all students in the Bridge City, Little Cypress-Mauriceville, and Deweyville school districts. Pictured: from left to right: Lexi Smith, Devin Cherry, Bailey McCauley, Avery Weidner...
Bridge City First Baptist Church is inviting the public to a gospel singing concert by The Hoppers, known as America's Favorite Gospel Group. The concert will begin at the church at 6 p.m. Saturday, August 19. Doors will open at 5 p.m. The church is at 200 West Roundbunch Road and the phone number is 409-735-3581. The Hoppers family singers began in 1955 in Madison, North Carolina, a rural farming community. Through the years, the changing family singers have performed in the...
The West Orange-Stark varsity Mustang cheerleaders for 2023-24 are, from left to right, front row: Makenzie Newberry, Re'yona Peeples, and Ja'Marion Brown. Back row: Meaira Gobert, Bre'Asia Hunt, Angel Cooper, Jestiny Bias, Aysia Perrault, Rheana Phillips, Tyleira Montgomery, Latessa Turner, and JaKaila Janice....
Amid an air of excitement and accomplishment, Lamar State College Orange hosted its much-anticipated summer graduation ceremony on August 12th at 10:00am at the West-Orange Stark High School Event Center. The event marked a momentous occasion, celebrating the hard work and dedication of graduating students, along with the unwavering support of their families, faculty, staff and the entire LSCO community. This summer's graduation was one of celebration and pride, capturing the...
The Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts announces individual show tickets will be on sale to the public Monday, August 21, beginning at 8:30 a.m. This marks the 44th season for the largest performing arts series from Houston, TX to New Orleans, LA. "Straight from Broadway in New York City to Main Avenue in Orange, Texas, this season at the Lutcher Theater is sure to be a crowd-pleaser," said Lynae Sanford, Lutcher Theater executive director. "We have a variety of incredibl...
Due to the extended drought conditions we are currently experiencing, we’re asking the citizens of Bridge City to voluntarily reduce their water usage. This action is called for in the Drought Contingency Plan adopted by the City in September of 2016 to help ensure we can maintain service to all our citizens. Per the Plan, we’re instituting our Stage 1 Response, which is a voluntary reduction in total usage. Some of the requirements of the Stage 1 Response include vol...
Piles of rubble stand along a block of the an old apartment complex, ready to be loaded into trailers to be hauled off for disposal. The rubble is from condemned buildings at the Sabine Park Apartments between First and Second Streets in the Old Orange Historic District. Last week the demolition began on the wood-frame one, and two-story buildings. The city is paying the Lark Group $145,000 to demolish nine of the complex's buildings. A lien for the amount will be added to...
Land is being cleared in spots all across Orange County as investors build parks for recreational vehicles that will be coming for the industrial boom created by the new Chevron Phillips chemical plant. And now, the county will have new regulations to put into effect. Beginning Monday, any land currently without an RV permit that is being developed will need to meet the new regulations. Existing RV parks, or those under construction with permits, will be "grandfathered" into t...
