Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Hurricane season along the Atlantic Ocean is expected to be more active than usual this year, with a higher probability that major storms will make landfall in Texas and other areas along the eastern coast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday. The Atlantic hurricane season officially starts June 1, and the national agency's findings are consistent with other scientific organizations' predictions. According to NOAA, there is a 65% chance the...
Orange County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to establish a Reinvestment Zone south of Rose City that could lead to a $6 billion investment by Enterprise Products Co. The county's action on the 1,800-acre property on the Orange County side of the Neches River should help convince the Barbers Hill company to build two projects on the site: a $5.25-billion ethane cracker and a $975-million export terminal able to process fully refrigerated ethane onto ships. The...
Bridge City was the only major taxing entity in the county to see an increase in sales tax payments from March compared to March of 2021. The Texas Comptroller's Office last week sent out payments with Bridge City collecting about $20,000 more for the month this year. Other cities, plus the county, were down slightly for the month, but most still have increases for the year to date. Pinehurst and Vidor are down for the month and year. The decreases in sales from last year...
Thomas A. Howell may be the most influential man in Orange that people haven't heard about. No streets are named after him. He hasn't been featured in local history books. However, the Orange High School Tigers in the 1930s played football in Howell Stadium. Howell was an architect and builder. His work today can be seen on a drive in the Old Orange Historic District when you pass houses he designed and built. His projects include one of the most elaborate construction and...
The Orange County Economic Development Corporation has its eye on a collaborative approach to logistics, distribution and warehousing that includes recruiting companies specializing in the storage and movement of consumer and manufacturing goods. “Orange County has seen tremendous opportunity in recent years,” said Jessica Hill, OCEDC executive director. “This strategy will allow us to continue in a growth trajectory, capitalize on existing developments and create oppor...
In 2008, Hurricane Ike and a high tide combined to push 38 inches of storm surge up from the marsh and into Carl and Sherry LeBlanc's Bridge City home. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey parked itself over Orange County for four days and 13 inches of floodwater again pushed the LeBlancs from the home they built in 1982, where they raised two sons. Carl LeBlanc was one of the first to sign up after the federal government announced the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program in 2018 to buy out...
Lamar State College Orange hosted its Spring 2022 Graduation this past Friday, May 13, 2022. The graduation was held at the Frances Ann Lutcher Theater for Performing Arts. President Tom Johnson served as the commencement speaker. Seventy-eight% of the graduates were first-generation college graduates. The graduates are listed below, starting with the honor graduates. HONOR GRADUATES Summa Cum Laude (3.8 - 4.00 GPA) Kendall Pate Arena Garrett Ryan Ashworth Chesani Ann Askew...
When Melinda Smith takes care of business, Orange County gets better and better. And her business has been very, very good for her employers and clients recently. Smith, Executive Vice President & Director of Program Development for Traylor & Associates of Tyler, is a grant administrator retained by Orange County and its cities to help navigate the thorny path to federal and state disaster funds. So far, her fingerprints are on total awards of $137.3 million for Orange County...
The current Orange City Council is taking an idea from the past and making it new again. The new recreation center set to open this summer will have two basketball courts and activities, but it won't compare with the Orange Youth Center, built from a remodeled World War II hospital. The Youth Center opened in June 1958, with its glory days through the 1960s and 1970s, when it named the Thomen Center in honor of Mayor Martin Thomen Sr., whose son and grandson also served on the...
Getting the perfect degree of spicy in your crawfish is not a feat for the weak. Luckily, Bridge City Automotive had plenty of muscle stirring up its Cajun Hot brand at Saturday's Mauriceville Crawfish Bash....
Bridge City school taxpayers agreed by about a two-thirds majority to pass two bond propositions totaling $72.4 million in an election that ended Saturday. The propositions would tear down a middle school building that has served the district for nearly 60 years and build a modern replacement across the street, at a price tag of $57.7 million; and build a new high school career technology education center, for $14.7 million. Bridge City voters rejected bond issues in 2014 and...
Dan Harris, left, receives a proclamation presented by Orange Mayor Larry Spears, Jr., as the city council proclaimed Tuesday, May 10 "Dan Harris Day," to honor the Orange rancher and longtime rodeo performer after he was recently inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame....
As the temperatures rose this week, people across Orange County could bare their arms, their legs, and their faces. Covid 19 has almost disappeared. Orange County Emergency Management Director Joel Ardoin said on Tuesday that no confirmed cases were reported and only four unconfirmed cases marked during the past week. No new deaths have been added during the week. But Covid 19 is not a disease to be forgotten, especially in Orange County. which has a high per capita death...
Mike Shugart won his ninth straight election to the West Orange City Council Saturday while Jay Odom and Lanie Brown were first-time winners. Frances Droddy-Lopez, a former council member, finished fourth in the voting for three at-large seats. West Orange is the only Orange County city to conduct its own elections without help from the Orange County Elections Administration. At 9:30 p.m. Saturday, final results from the other seven jurisdictions were still not reported....
Incumbent members of Bridge City's school board and city council won their bids for reelections in results announced after the close of voting Saturday. Current Place 2 councilman Mike Reed defeated former councilman Carl Harbert 631 votes to 517 (55% to 45%) and Bridge City school board president Rebecca Hall Rutledge won 71.8% of the vote (1,525-600) over Peggy Prosperie in the only two contested BC races with a sitting incumbent. For Bridge City Council Place 4, former BCIS...
West Orange alderman Michael Shugart, Jr., is seeking his ninth straight election to his hometown's city council. This is the first time he's ever had an opponent. "Since 2006, I've been elected every two years, but I've never put a sign up until now," he said. "Every year, only three people ran for the three seats, so there really was no election." In all, 40 candidates are seeking 20 contested seats on Orange County city councils or school boards in the May 7 election....
Orange County small businesses are invited to learn more about the contracting process in support of work opportunities for the Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay projects in Freeport and Port Arthur next week. A separate Orange County event is planned at a later date to address specifically the Orange County project for potential vendors and subcontractors, but a date and location has not been set. A spokesman said everyone was welcome to attend next week’s meetings in Port Arthur...
It is a privilege to announce my candidacy to run for a fourth term on the West Orange-Cove CISD School Board and continue my commitment to our students, faculty, staff, and community. My enthusiasm and passion for service to this school district community is because I believe that collaboration between the teachers, parents, and administrators is vitally important in creating the best possible schools for our children. In WOCCISD, we have a "platform to excellence" for...
Construction of the flood protection system for Orange County will create 5,000 to 10,000 jobs with the project to include moving more than five million cubic feet of dirt, enough to fill the Astrodome three times. The money is now in place and construction is set to begin in 2024. The total project is expected to be finished in four years. Congress in 2018 approved federal money for the Orange County system, which will cost about $2.39 Billion. On Friday, the Gulf Coast...
The two largest building projects receiving permits in Orange for April have had help from city Economic Development Corporation grants. A commercial fire sprinkler system valued at $72,851 is going into the new medical center at Eagle Point. In January, a perm it for the $8.6 million Gisela Houseman Medical Campus was issued for the area off Interstate 10 at Highway 62. Also in April, Paul Dickerson with Orange Stationer, 701 W. Division in downtown, received a permit for $46...
The Bridge City Chamber of Commerce raised more than $20,000 with its fund-raising Purse Bingo Night at the Orange County Expo Center Thursday night April 28. A capacity crowd of 500 bought seats to play for purses and door prizes. The Chamber plans to hold another Purse Bingo Night Nov. 3,...
You can fly in, ride the (miniature) rails or just back up your pickup and find plenty to do this week in Orange County. Fly-In and Drive In takes place at the Orange County Airport, Depot Day Annual Community Festival is at the Orange Train Depot and Mauriceville Crawfish Bash at the Mauriceville Community Center all beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday. Crawfish Bash is at 7441 Cohenour Road under a new 6,000 square foot pavilion roof featuring free crawfish and Kids Zone games...
Lamar State College Orange held its second annual Career and Technical Education (CTE) Signing Day last night, awarding twenty-six students technical scholarships sponsored by local industry and foundation partners. The event, patterned after a high school student "signing" his/her intent to play college sports, featured technical program scholarship awards from Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, the Donald T. Boumans Foundation, Invista Orange, Cloeren Incorporated, the...
The construction of a 25-mile levee system around Orange County is now slated to begin in 2024 and be completed by 2028. Local residents are getting an update on the planning in three public open houses this week put on by the Army Corps of Engineers and the county's Drainage District. But the Corps' Galveston District Engineer and Commander, Col. Tim Vail, says it's not just the locals he's trying to impress. While Congress has approved $2.4 billion to build the Orange...
Almost all of the property with historic value that will be affected by the levee-seawall-pump station system are along, or near, the Sabine River in the city of Orange. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been working with the Texas Historical Commission to survey and preserve historic sites that will be affected by the flood prevention system to be built around the southern side of the county and up along part of the eastern side. In a survey completed last year, the...
