Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Shodi and Jay Jocobson, from Sour Lake, attended the What's it Worth? appraisal event Saturday held at the Orange County Convention and Expo Center. Jay purchased the picture he's holding for $5 at a garage sale when he was 18 years old and found out it was worth $200. Shodi is holding itty bitty dolls from Germany. One of them that is about half an inch tall is worth $65-80. Plans are already in the works to hold the event again next year. RECORD PHOTO: Penny...
The Texas Municipal League reports that David Rutledge is the acting city manager of Bridge City. He also serves as mayor. The information on the group's website of incorporated cities in the state. Word from numerous sources is that the man who served as the city's new manager for only seven months resigned. The Bridge City City Council meeting on the night of August 20 had an agenda item listed as a closed-door executive session to "deliberate the employment, evaluation, sep...
Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan today named Mike Toomey as Chief of Staff, effective August 26, 2024. Today's announcement follows the departure of Speaker Phelan's current chief of staff, Enrique Marquez, effective August 23, 2024. "Today I am thrilled to welcome Mike Toomey as the next Chief of Staff in the Office of the Speaker-his leadership will greatly benefit the state, my office and the entire Texas House," said Speaker Phelan. "Mike is a storied titan of Texas...
On July 1, 2024, the Orange County Sheriff's Office was made aware of an alleged criminal offense concerning Deputy Ken Bost who was assigned to the patrol division at the time of the complaint. The Orange County Criminal Investigations Division immediately began an investigation, subsequently contacting the Texas Ranger's Beaumont Office. Once the investigation was complete, the findings were submitted to the Orange County District Attorney's Office. The case was presented to...
Orange County Judge John Gothia is proposing a property tax rate slightly lower than the current rate. During a tax rate hearing Tuesday morning, he suggested a rate of 51 cents per $100 valuation, down from 52.2 cents per $100 valuation. Commissioners Court is set to vote on the new tax rate along with a general operations budget of $53.56 million during a meeting September 10. The new budget will begin on October 1 and the new property taxes will be due at the end of...
Transcript Sam Marie Hermitte – Asst. Deputy Executive Administrator, TWDB Water Science & Conservation So, in 2015, there was a really significant flood around, on Memorial Day in the Wimberley area. And when that flood occurred, there was no gauge upstream. So, the weather service could not accurately predict and warn in terms of the wave of water that was coming down into that community. And it resulted in loss of life, which is terrible. And, as a result of that, it was at the end of the legislative session in 2015, t...
Sales tax revenues for June were up from last year for most of the local entities. However, the county had a decrease in monthly sales, though it still has collected more for the year to date compared to last year. The city of Orange continues to see a steep drop in sales tax collections during the past few months, and is down nearly 24 percent in revenues for the first eight months of the year in comparison to the same time last year. The sales tax information comes from the...
Orangefield High School 'Ready, Set, Teach!' students are ready to get started! They will be interns at the other campuses. Interns will demonstrate professional standards/employability skills, explore the teaching and training profession, understand the learner and the learning process, interact effectively in the role of an educator, plan and develop effective instruction, and have the opportunity to earn an Educational Aide I Certification upon successful completion of the...
Bridge City High graduate Chase Shugart moved up to Major League Baseball this week as the Boston Red Sox promoted him from their AAA team the Worcester Red Sox. Local fans may get to see him soon as the Red Sox will be playing in Houston next week against the Astros. Games are set for 7:10 p.m. Monday, August 20, and Tuesday, August 21, then at 1:10 p.m. Wednesday, August 21, all at Minute Maid Park. Shugart, 27, is a right-handed pitcher and for the past three years has...
Annette Payne lives in the Cove neighborhood of Orange and went to the old Cove school there. For years, she watched as the abandoned, sprawling school buildings deteriorated with broken windows. But that decay is gone and Monday, she helped the city of Orange and local industries celebrate the rebirth of neighborhood with a sprawling park and recreation area on the land where the school once stood. "We had a lot of people here that went to school here, that still live here, l...
The Texas Historical Commission has approved two new local historical markers, one for the City of West Orange, and the other for the Orange Paper Company, founded in the early 1901 that operated more than 90 years. Meritta Kennedy, who is on the West Orange City Council and a member of the Orange County Historical Commission, did the research and wrote the application for the marker for West Orange. Ken Steppe, a retired paper mill executive who helped open the...
Bridge City can expect more traffic problems this week as the Texas Department of Transportation plans to close one lane of the Rainbow Bridge on Thursday and one lane of the Veterans Memorial Bridge on Friday. TxDOT warns to expect delays in travel time and to be cautious of road crews. The closures are for contract inspectors to check the bridges. The Rainbow Bridge lane closure will be from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 15, with the lane closure on the Veterans Me...
The Bridge City school district this year is letting all students at the elementary and intermediate school have a free breakfast and lunch each day, thanks to a program f rom the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the community eligibility program. Students at the middle school and high school will need to apply and meet family income or special needs like being in foster care to qualify for free or reduced-price meals. BCISD Food Service Director Maggie Joubert said in a...
Cut: Michelle Moore, Texas A&M Forest Service Forester (left) received the Smokey Bear award from Scott Phillips, National Association of State Foresters President (right), in Washington, D.C. Michelle Moore, Texas A&M Forest Service Forester, received a bronze Smokey Bear award last week in recognition of her efforts to create a first-of-its-kind wildfire prevention resource guide. The Introduction to Fire Prevention virtual resource guide created by Moore is a...
It’s that time of year again in which the Orange County Commissioners’ Court certified property tax values and determined early voting locations, dates and times. Here are the property tax figures that were presented in commissioners' court on Tuesday morning. Octavia Guzman, interim tax assessor-collector, said at the meeting the 2024 Orange County taxable value is $8,769,549,099; up $506,933,866 from last year’s taxable value. The 2024 Orange County No New Revenue rate...
It was standing room only at the screening of the freshly made entries for the Boomtown Film and Music Festival Music Video Competition Monday night at the Logon Café in Beaumont. Some people were standing outside, looking in the windows. Kudos to this year's festival director Stephanie Orta. The competition was part of July's "Halfway to Boomtown" event. On July 26, they held a concert event with three music acts and had the music video challenge kickoff in-between acts....
Dry weather is helping move the construction along on the new Bridge City Middle School. The project, started last year, is part of the 2022 bond election voters approved. A new, 160,000 square foot building to accommodate 900 students is going up on the site where the former middle school, built as the high school 60 years ago, once stood. The contractor is G&G Enterprises of Orange County with Claycomb Associates as the architect....
Brush up your dance steps and show off your shag. You might win money. A shag dancing contest with a $100 prize is part of Blues Fest on Saturday, August 10, at the Orange Boat Ramp's Riverside Pavilion. The dance contest will be part of a day and evening of music featuring local musicians and professional blues bands. The headliner is LJ Echols, known for his blues and Southern Soul. He grew up in a small town in Mississippi in a musical family and started a gospel group....
After noticing an abundance of new businesses opening in Bridge City recently, The Record decided to check in with Mandy Lyda, executive director of Bridge City Chamber of Commerce to see just how many businesses have opened since the first of the year. “It’s exciting to see all the new businesses in Bridge City,” said Lyda. She went through the membership list to see how many have joined the chamber since January. Brooke and Catherine Lending Company (aka: FBC Mortg...
Teachers at Orange County public schools are back to work for the 2024-25 school year with students to begin classes next week. West Orange-Cove students will start on Monday, August 12, with the other districts, Bridge City, Little Cypress-Mauriceville, Orangefield, and Vidor getting students on Wednesday, August 14. On Tuesday for the first time, teachers and administrators from all five school districts gathered for a convocation at West Orange-Stark High School's new...
Bill Nickum and Dr David Olson recently received recognition from the Bridge City/Orangefield Rotary Club on their 50th Anniversaries as charter members of the Rotary Club....
H.B. Neild Construction expanded its reach in Southeast Texas and beyond by welcoming the community to the grand opening of its Orange County location. The new facility sits on nearly 2 acres and includes an 8,000-square-feet main office and warehouse. There is also a 2,100-square-feet equipment bay and secondary warehouse. At capacity, the location is going to employ a dozen professionals and serve as an Orange County hub for H.B. Neild services within its construction,...
Karen Fisher jokes that she even hates herself when she writes her self a check to pay for her property taxes. "I hate that Karen Fisher," she jokes. Fisher has been the elected Orange County Tax Assessor-Collector for nearly eight years and Wednesday is her last day after working in the office for 32 years. It's been a tradition for decades for checks to pay property taxes and the vehicle registrations collected in the office to be written to the personal name of the tax...
The OCARC Fishing Tournament provides more than a chance for local amateur anglers to win money for their catches. The supports clients at the sheltered workshop and brings people together to celebrate the special adults. The tournament is always held on the first Friday and Saturday of August and this Saturday will be the 36th. Thanks to local businesses, prize money this year is going up with $500 for the top prize in the four major categories, bass, speckled trout,...
