Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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(AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today announced his agency has selected data company LightBox to develop the state’s broadband availability map. The map will help the Comptroller’s Broadband Development Office (BDO) determine where to invest public funding in areas most in need of broadband connectivity as it implements the Texas Broadband Plan. “We are excited to partner with LightBox for the important task of connecting Texans in unserved and underserved parts o...
Competitors from all over the World showed up for the Grappling Industries Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament in Houston, TX this past weekend. Nine competitors from Mooney Boys Jiu Jitsu represented Orange County accompanied by head coach Marshall Mooney and assistant coaches Noah Flynn, Erin Ayers, and Justin Lambert. The Mooney Boys team competed in 40 total matches bringing home 3 gold, 7 silver, and 8 bronze medals. The Competitors ages ranged from 10-19 years old, with...
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce has announced that Milano's Italian Grill has been named Business of the Month for August. Bashkim and Kadie Makolli was presented the award, sponsored by Energy Country Ford, by Life Time Ambassador Dave Derosier at the monthly Networking Coffee hosted by Brick Oven. Pictured are: Bashkim Makolli, Kadie Makolli, Raley Broussard, Dasha Wardlow, Jarett Rice, Lendrit Makolli and Dave Derosier. Our business of the month is Milano's Italian...
The OCARC conducted its 34th fishing tournament this past weekend. It was another successful event for the association. There were 230 participants that entered the OCARC Fishing Tournament in the waters around Orange County with 71 of the participants being younger than 16 years old. "That's what we always like to have is a lot of kids out here so they'll be fishing in the future," John Thomas the Director of OCARC announced. This year's tournament was done in remembrance of...
SABINE PASS — The Texas General Land Office (GLO) and multiple partners are set to begin work on the restoration of approximately 17 miles of the McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) shoreline in Jefferson and Chambers counties. The restoration project will span from High Island to Sea Rim State Park and will improve the shoreline by widening its beaches to better accommodate recreation, stabilizing the shoreline against further erosion by planting native species and constr...
At Bridge City High School, a time-consuming job on concrete in the hot August sun is a special right of passage. The seniors with cars get reserved parking spots and paint them in colorful designs. The senior painters were out painting Monday, a sure sign that a new school year is ready to begin. The Bridge City, West Orange-Cove, Orangefield, and Vidor public school districts start classes on Wednesday, August 10. Schools in the Little Cypress-Mauriceville district start on...
The godmother of a 5-year-old girl will spend the rest of her life in prison after a jury in Orange County last week found her guilty of capital murder. The trial of Brenika Lott, 34, of Orange was the third, and final, pending trial of child killers in Orange County. The murders of children are rare here, but in a 16-month span from February 2019 to June 2020, the county had three young children, two of them toddlers, killed by their caretakers. The godmother, the father of...
ORANGE, TX – Lamar State College Orange received official word this week that the Texas Higher Educating Coordinating Board (THECB) has awarded the college a $530,000 Texas Reskilling and Upskilling through Education (TRUE) Grant. The funds will benefit LSCO’s Electro Mechanical, Process Operating, Instrumentation, and Maritime Programs. The grant will enable LSCO to purchase full-size pumps, valves, motors, and controls that simulate a local plant environment, along with ret...
Notice of Non-Discrimination Little Cypress-Mauriceville Consolidated Independent School District offers career and technical education programs in Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Construction, Cosmetology, Culinary Arts, AV and Communications, Business and Finance, Education, Health Science, Manufacturing/Welding, Process Operations, Engineering, and Computer Science. Admission to these programs is based on interest, aptitude, course prerequisites and age. It is the...
For the first time in local history residents in the four Orange County emergency services districts will vote for their own boards of directors. On Tuesday, Orange County Commissioners Court officially called the November 8th general election and will include the emergency services districts. In the past, Commissioners Court appointed the board members, usually on the recommendation of the county commissioner in the precinct where each district is located. However, the...
Debbie Pletcher is excited to be directing the Broadway musical "Newsies" for the Port Arthur Little Theater (PALT) which debuts this weekend. The story centers around "Newsies" aka paper boys that sold newspapers on street corners and their fight to battle price hikes in 1899 with Joseph Pulitzer and other publishers. "This is my bucket list show," said Pletcher. "It has been a dream for me since the movie came out in the 80s with Christian Bale." There are several Orange...
Last week, a gaggle of grads from the old Stark High School gathered in Orange to visit and swap tales. And yes, there was some horn tooting--on a vintage bugle from the legendary Bengal Guards Girls Drum and Bugle Corps. Bruce Beneke, Joel (Joey) Robins, David Bruce, and Chuck Dean from the Classes of 1965 and '66 were joined by Robins' kid sister, Becky Robins Smith, who still lives in Orange. One of their stops was at Heritage House Museum. While there, Bruce Beneke...
(AUSTIN) – Texas State University System Chancellor Brian McCall has selected Sidney E. Valentine, Ph.D., as sole finalist in the Lamar Institute of Technology presidential search. Dr. Valentine currently serves as vice president for academic affairs and student services at South Florida State College. He was selected following a national search. "Lamar Institute of Technology is one of the fastest-growing two-year institutions in the nation, offering high-quality programs tha...
U.S. Representatives Brian Babin and Randy Weber, both Republicans, voted last week against protecting the right to birth control. Babin represents Texas District 36, which includes Orange County. Weber represents Texas District 14. The Texas Legislature moved Orange County to Weber's 14th District last year. Orange County will be in the 14th District in January. Democrats in the House of Representatives passed a bill to make the availability of birth control methods legal in...
Sheriff Lane Mooney and the Orange County Sheriff's Office were honored by the H.O.G Chapter # 4974 in appreciation of their amazing support of the "500 for Life" Rally. The Orange County Sheriff's Office did a tremendous job assisting with the ride to raise awareness. It is important to remember there is plenty of room for both vehicles motorist and motorcycle operators on the roads. "While it is important for motorcycle operators to use safety gear and ride defensively, we...
(AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar is reminding shoppers they can save money on clothes and school supplies during the state’s sales tax holiday on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 5-7. State law exempts sales tax on qualified items — such as clothing, footwear, school supplies and backpacks — priced below $100, saving shoppers about $8 on every $100 they spend. The dates of the sales tax holiday and list of tax-exempt items are set by the Texas Legislature. “Most T...
The City of Pinehurst is looking for a new city administrator. Jerry Hood submitted his letter of resignation as the city administrator on July 12, and it was accepted by the Pinehurst City Council. A two-person committee was appointed by the City Council on July 20 to review the twelve applications received to fill the position and make a recommendation for selecting the new city administrator. Mayor Sarah McClendon and Alderman Greg Willis will be the committee members, but...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas-The fire environment, characterized by critically to extremely dry vegetation and critical fire weather, will support wildfire activity this week. Areas of concern include the eastern Rolling Plains, Cross Timbers, Central Texas, North Texas near the Waco and Dallas-Fort Worth areas and south along the I-35 corridor near the Capital region. The risk for significant fires is also expanding east to include portions of East Texas, including areas near...
ORANGE, TX – The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) held a press conference today at Lamar State College Orange (LSCO) to announce the funding of a $208,741 Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) Grant for LSCO's Nursing and Health-related Programs. The JET Grant funds are supporting the training of over 250 students in the Registered Nursing, Emergency Medical Technician, and Licensed Vocational Nursing Programs with industry-standard equipment, affording LSCO graduates to join a...
Citizens and property owners interested in a proposed crude oil pipeline across Bessie Heights Marsh and under Sabine Lake will be able to discuss the project during a public meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 21. The meeting is sponsored by environmental groups and will be at the Bridge City Senior Citizens Center, 670 West Roundbunch Road. The Record Newspapers reported this month the project by Blue Marlin Pipeline will go from Nederland under the Neches River and then...
U.S. Representative Brian Babin, who has Orange County in his Congressional district, was mentioned last week in the January 6 Committee investigating the attack on the capitol. Babin is a Republican dentist from Woodville and represents the Texas 36th District. His name was listed as being on the White House visitors log on December 21, 2020, when then-President Donald Trump called some Republican congress members to discuss disputing the presidential election. According to...
A West Orange woman died Sunday evening after apparently jumping off the Rainbow Bridge, according to the Port Arthur Police Department. The department in a media release called the death a "suicide." The death came the day after the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline began providing counselors for mental health support by simply calling 988 on a phone. The new hotline number is easier to remember than the previous 1-800-273-8255 toll free line, which is still in use. Port...
Construction of a possible recreational vehicle park in West Orange is on hold for now. It took over thirty minutes of discussion and three votes of the West Orange City Council before the request for construction of the RV park was tabled on Monday, July 18, until further review. Vice President Austin Mellen of Dal Sasso Enterprises submitted the request to construct a 54-space RV park at 605 Foreman Road to West Orange City Secretary Theresa Van Meter on July 12. Mellen aske...
(Texas Gulf Coast Regional, July 19, 2022) -- Charles K. Blake, Jr., who has more than four decades of disaster response experience, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer for the Texas Gulf Coast Region of the American Red Cross. As we start getting into the heart of Hurricane season, there is no better person to lead the Texas Gulf Coast Region through this time. Blake has extensive experience with disaster. He was part of the National Leadership team who deployed into H...
COVID-19 numbers are steadily rising in Orange County, though hospitalizations are low. Joel Ardoin, emergency management coordinator for the county, told Commissioners Court Tuesday that Orange County had recorded 234 new cases of COVID-19. Of those, 24 were confirmed and 210 probable, with six patients hospitalized. Five of those had been vaccinated. At the Commissioners’ last meeting, June 28, Ardoin reported 112 new cases, 19 of which were confirmed, with three h...
