Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022 — It’s time to turn the heat back on in cooler parts of the country and the American Red Cross Texas Gulf Coast Region urges families to safely heat their home to avoid home fires. Heating equipment is the second leading causes of home fires, which typically rise during the colder months. The Red Cross Home Fire Campaign with community partners has saved at least 1,414 lives by educating families about fire safety, helping them create escape pla...
The site of the old Cove school is set to become a recreation area with a walking trail, play area, benches, shaded area, parking lot, and kiosk to tell the history of "Chemical Row," the famed highway lined with the petrochemical plants. City of Orange Planning Director Kelvin Knauf outlined the plans to the city council on Tuesday. He said Dow Chemical, which bought the original DuPont Sabine River Works plant, the first petrochemical plant, is helping with grants. Knauf sai...
On October 7, 2022, the Texas Municipal League (TML) and its 1,174 member cities announced that Bridge City Mayor David Rutledge is the new TML president. Rutledge has served on the TML Board of Directors since February 2019. He first served as a director representing a TML affiliate group, the Texas Association of Mayors, Councilmembers and Commissioners, and then as the director for TML Region 16, a 12-county area that includes Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Lufkin. “I am truly...
Orange will be having an even bigger Juneteenth Festival in 2023 as the Orange City Council approved awarding the Krewe de Onyx, sponsor of the event, $45,000. The group also has a donation from Father Jim Sichko for $15,000. He announced the donation on his Facebook page in June after giving the sermon for the Sunday worship service. The City Council last week allocated money from the city's Hotel Occupancy Tax after recommendations from Assistant City Manager Jay Trahan,...
Former Orange County commissioner Marcel Adams celebrated her 99th birthday on Tuesday with lots of bridge-playing friends. She attributes playing the strategic card game as one of her ways to keeping active. And keeping active is a key to her longevity, she said. Besides playing bridge, she regularly goes to church and church events. Plus, her little dog Noel keeps her company as she still lives by herself. Adams made county history in the mid-1980s when she won election to...
Local high school drama students will be spotlighted Saturday during the Heritage House Museum's Sixth Annual Historic Ghost Walk downtown Orange Saturday. This year, about 100 drama students from Bridge City, Little Cypress-Mauriceville, Orangefield, Vidor, and West Orange are participating to tell the true stories of Orange County. "We are happy that all our public schools can participate this year," said Adam Conrad, president of the Heritage House board of directors....
Orange County Judge John Gothia Tuesday morning issued a countywide burn ban on recommendation of the county's emergency management director because of the indices that show drought conditions could aid the spread of wildfires. At the Commissioners Court meeting Tuesday afternoon, Gothia said all the other counties around Orange County have burn bans and it was time for one here. He said rain is in the forecast this week, but we cannot be sure it will fall here. Adjacent...
Bridge City High School honored Michelle Price, left, and Cathy Riley, right, during last week's football game for their years of helping with the Strutters and Cardinal cheerleaders. The two teachers have more than half a century of teaching at Bridge City....
(ORANGE, TX October 18, 2022)- The Southeast & Deep East Chapter of the American Red Cross is recruiting volunteers to assist it in achieving its humanitarian mission to alleviate human suffering in times of personal and community crises. Since its founding by Clara Barton in 1881, the Red Cross has been a global leader in providing care, shelter and hope to individuals and communities in the face of emergencies. In addition to disaster preparedness and relief efforts, the...
Orange, TX-- This week, Senator Robert Nichols (R-Jacksonville) met with local superintendents from Orange County. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss education issues in preparation for the 88th Legislature which convenes in January. "The Legislature faces many challenges this session, and we cannot make good decisions unless we are listening closely to those we represent," said Nichols. "Education is and always will be one of the most important issues we face as a...
Anyone who talked to Van Jordan for a while went away feeling like they had been life-long friends, that's the kind of man he was, said J.W. Dalton. Jordan was a Christian minister, military veteran, and led the area motorcycle HOG, Harley-Davidson Owners Group. Jordan died last week at his Port Arthur home at the age of 56. In addition to being a motorcycle enthusiast, he owned a construction company in Port Arthur and was a minister. Dalton, who owns Top Deck in Mauriceville...
Like hundreds of girls across Texas during football season, Aamiyah Gradnigo walked the field in an evening gown for homecoming ceremonies. But instead of being escorted by her father, she walked arm-in-arm with a uniformed police officer. She asked Orange Police Sergeant Jason Laughlin to walk with her because of their close relationship that developed when he was the lead investigator into the home-break-in murder of her older sister and the sister's boyfriend. "I was just...
People can immerse themselves in fall this weekend by carving pumpkins, strolling through displays of pumpkins, and even immersing themselves face first into a pumpkin pie. The activities are all part of the Second Annual Orangetober sponsored by the city of Orange. Live entertainment will be included at the three-day festival, with the featured performer country star Kevin Fowler Saturday night. Food trucks, craft beer, soft drinks, family activities, craft vendors, games,...
he Bridge City ISD school board has approved the architectural drawings for the new middle school and high school career center, and the next steps are being made toward construction. The designs were released last week by Claycomb Associates, Architects, a Texas-based firm that specializes in school designs. The new middle school, which will replace the current one that was built in the mid-1960s, is estimated to cost $57.7 million. The CTE (Career and Technology Education)...
Dow Chemical and the Orange County United Way are once again sponsoring "Together Thursdays" in October with two free family-friendly live concerts at the Orange Riverfront Pavilion off Simmons Drive. The first one will be this Thursday, October 6, at 6:30 p.m. featuring the band The Cheez Weez. Maureen McAllister, president of the United Way, said The Cheez Weez is a cover band that plays a lot of pop and rock songs from the 1980s and 1990s. She said the band is similar to...
For the first time in five years, Orange County will be starting a new budget year with a surplus. County Judge John Gothia said no recent disasters and reimbursement payments from FEMA have created the financial success. Orange County Commissioners Court unanimously approved the 2022-23 budget of $52.7 million. This year the county will begin the new fiscal year October 1 with $8.3 million in reserves. The savings will allow the county to buy new equipment that had been...
A two-state search is being conducted for 48-year-old Michelle Reynolds of Alvin, a former Orange resident with relatives here. Her husband reported her missing this weekend to the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office after she disappeared on Thursday, September 22. She told her husband she was going to get something to eat. During the weekend, her gray Lexus RX 300 was traced to a parking garage in New Orleans, nearly 400 miles away. New Orleans police have also been trying to...
Dr. Mike Kelly has a rare chance this school year to learn new skills and find out what other public school districts are doing in Texas, three other states and Puerto Rico. The superintendent for the Bridge City ISD was chosen this year for the Thompson Executive Leadership Institution through the Region 13 Education Service Center in Austin. The leadership program uses references to invite school leaders to apply for the program, but not everyone invited to apply is chosen....
West Orange-Stark High is celebrating homecoming this week with activities including a parade and community pep rally on Wednesday, September 28. The homecoming game on Friday will be against Liberty with kickoff at 7:30 p.m. The Wednesday evening parade will begin at 6 p.m. at West Orange City Hall on Western Avenue. The parade will then travel westbound on Western and then turn south on Newton Avenue. The parade will end at the high school football stadium with the...
Orange County voters will have local elections during the November 8 general election as a new state law requires the members of the boards for special emergency services districts to be elected instead of appointed. Orange County has four emergency services districts. In the past, Orange County Commissioners Court has appointed the members of the boards for the districts. The Emergency Services District in Orange County provide fire and rescue service. Some of them have paid...
AUSTIN – The Thompson Executive Leadership Institute (TELI) in Austin, Texas has announced that Mike Kelly, Superintendent at Bridge City ISD, is the recipient of an academic scholarship to attend the 30th annual Superintendent Academy sponsored by the Thompson Executive Leadership Institute at Education Service Center (ESC) Region 13 in Austin, Texas. The TELI Superintendent Academy is a nationally known advanced leadership development program for school superintendents from...
Drivers traveling in the Waterwood subdivision outside of Bridge City will need to pay attention to the intersections soon. Orange County will be installing stop signs at five of the intersections. In addition, a stop sign will be going up in the Wexford Park subdivision outside of Vidor at the intersection of Waterford Way and Leitrum Drive. Orange County Commissioners Court Tuesday unanimously approved the new stop signs after conducting a public hearing on them before the...
The Orange County Sheriff's Drug Interdiction Unit on Interstate 10 scored again by stopping an Italian vehicle that deputies said had 99 pounds of pot in plastic totes and suitcases. According to a press release from the Sheriff's Office, the drug interdiction on September 15 stopped a 2019 Alfa Romeo on "several traffic violations." The release did not say where the stop was made or the time of the stop. The release said the Drug Interdiction Unit detectives saw marijuana...
Sales taxes remained strong across Orange County during July, but some entities were not collecting enough to keep up with the increase in consumer prices. The cities of Pinehurst and Vidor had decreases in collections compared to last year. Orange County was the only entity with a sales tax that had above the July 2022 Consumer Price Index. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics put the consumer price index for July 2022 at 8.5 percent more than the CPI for July 2021. The Texas...
