Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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Congratulations to BCE's Cardinals of Character for the 1st marking period. Pre-k - Jacob Curl, Vivaan Lala, Jax Ernst, and Jaretzy Venegas. Kinder students- Mason McMurray, Luke Bland, Kayden Lee, Parker Wall, Lauryn McDaniel, Lyna Snell, Peyton Lapeyrolerie, Breeanna Ramos, Mayleigh Wright, Addison Meaux, Lucas Sizemore and Mayreli Barriga. 1st Grade students- Brendan Menges, Kenzie Brown, Jais Williams, Brianna Davila, Weslee Brown, Addyson Jones, Rylan Meaux, Nash Chambless, Ava Swanzy, Maysa Johnson, Sophi Dillon, Tyr...
It took 16 long years and three seasons of100-plus losses, but the Houston Astros have finally won the American League West Division championship. The last time the Astros were division winners, they were members of the National League Central Division. At exactly 4:01 p.m. Sunday, after beating the Seattle Mariners 7-1 for the sixth straight time, the Houston Astros had eliminated their magic numbers and were the undisputed champs of the AL West. The corks on the champagne bottles that were being iced down in the clubhouse...
Texting is a frustrating exercise for me at best and I don’t do Facebook at all, but I got an up close look at the power of both over the past week or so.We evacuated after partially winning the battle with the rapidly rising water and my daughter’s family joined the exodus with the knowledge that five feet of water was already flowing through their house.They returned to sadly confirm that they had indeed lost everything but their cars. As soon as the water was shallow enough, we made that heartbreaking wade through a lif...
Now that the “real” National Football League season is under way, I kind of felt sorry for the season-ticket holders who had to endure a month of pre-season exhibition games which was part of the deal. Many of the players they were forced to watch are back at the car wash or slinging hash somewhere after their bubble of becoming an NFL player burst. But the 2017 season started off with a huge surprise as the world champion New England Patriots looked like butter under a hot knife as the Kansas City Chiefs beat them in eve...
Lamar University stands strong with Southeast Texans. The University is offering free general admission tickets to Southeast Texas families with children for Saturday’s home-opening contest against Texas-Permian Basin. Saturday’s game will mark the first time these two teams have met on the gridiron. The game against the Falcons will kick off at 7 p.m. from Provost Umphrey Stadium. “The impact of Harvey on the Golden Triangle will be felt for months as families now begin the process of putting their lives back toget...
Thanks to a hurricane named Harvey (which turned out to be a real “wall-banger”) most Southeast Texans heeded the warning of the National Weather Service and spent last weekend hunkered down at home and became quite attached to their television sets. Yours truly was no exception and made my program of choice the final round of the Little League World Series, which has been played annually in Williamsport, Pa. since 1939. This year was somewhat special as Lufkin—which is a two-hour drive from Orange and is the residence of my...
TICISM If anyone read Sunday’s edition of the Houston Chronicle’s sport section, they would have seen two articles involving National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell and another story near the back of the section about Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred.Although both of these CEOs receive much more criticism than compliments, after reading both of these articles, I have to agree that several points supporting the gist of these stories have much merit.The piece about Goodell begins, “No one should hold...
It seems that over the past two months, be it local, state or national, some group has hosted a tournament on Sabine Lake every weekend.If your favorite spot has any merit all, don’t count on getting on it on a Saturday morning. If, however, you are more into learning than catching, these are wonderful opportunities to observe and learn everything from how to best fish productive structure to fishing different lures and techniques.If you keep your distance and rely on your troll motor to quietly move around rather than y...
I don’t know how an organization as well known as the IFA can host a Redfish Tournament right here in Orange and for all practical purposes, come and go with little or no fanfare.The heat possibly discouraged some potential spectators at the weigh-in and that was understandable, but I have since talked with lots of folks that knew nothing about the event! All week long I saw tower boats running all over the lake so it was apparent that they were pre-fishing for a tournament somewhere on Saturday.Even after Albert Bates c...
For The Record You can call it swagger if you like, a way of letting the world know you know you’ve accomplished something of value. “Swagger, or confidence, I don’t have any problem with that,” Bridge City’s third-year head football coach, Dwayne DuBois, said when describing the been-there, done-that air of some of his more veteran players. “In the third year in a program, they should have more confidence,” the coach said. The Cardinals made the playoffs in 2015, the coa...
For the Record Capt. Dickie Colburn The first of two big summer fishing events in Orange is now on the books with the second scheduled for Thursday night.While she made it difficult at times for the fishermen, Mother Nature did little more than cool things off at the weigh-in for the 30^th annual OCARC fishing tournament Saturday afternoon. As predicted, every category was not only filled, but also well represented. Easily the fish of the day was Taylor Guidry’s 6.81 pound bass! Guidry said that he caught his winning fish a...
It’s a familiar scene that is played out all along the gulf coast from Texas to Florida, anglers armed with light tackle weapons probe the shallow shorelines for the bullies of the marsh. The whole encounter is a sensory overload from the get go, it is always visually stimulating to see cruising redfish roam the banks and wreak havoc like only they can. Your ears are often treated to the sounds of vicious strikes as these heavyweights flex their muscles on mullet or crabs with equal zest. Yes, it is a moment like no other as...
It’s not very often the state of Texas has three historical events that happen on the same day.Sunday was one of those rare occasions when Houston Astros slugger Jeff Bagwell became the second true Astros player inducted in Baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N. Y., Texas Rangers’ third baseman Adrian Beltre banged out his 3,000th major league hit and former Texas Longhorn golfer Jhonattan Vegas successfully defended his title in the PGA Tour Canadian Open.Bagwell, along with teammate Craig Biggio who was inducted two y...
The Little Cypress Junior High School cheerleaders and mascots attended the National Cheerleaders Association (NCA) camp, July 18 through July 21, at Moody Gardens in Galveston. The group won the Top Team Game Day Division trophy, the coveted spirit stick to take home, Superior Ribbons for daily evaluations, and the Herkie award. Those nominated for All-American Cheerleader were Blake Clingaman, Conner Trawhon, and Halle Lewis. Congratulations to Conner Trawhon for being selected to the All-American Team. The Cub mascots, Mon...
Well…..here we are for the 30th consecutive year getting our boats and fishing tackle ready for this weekend’s annual OCARC fishing tournament.It is the main fund raiser for John Thomas and the folks at the Center located on 8^th and Park and they look forward to you and your family joining them. Lots of phone calls, lots of miles on the truck and an unspoken pact with Mother Nature are all necessary elements of hosting yet another successful event.While the OCARC is ble...
Wife Susan came tearing out of our computer room and announced that if I wanted to go to Las Vegas, she saw the perfect deal on Expedia. She gave me the details—which sounded really great—but added we must do something soon because the deal will disappear quickly. The package included round-trip air fare, shuttle service to and from the airport and five days/four nights at a 5A hotel (Bellagio) on the Las Vegas strip. The third week of July seemed to work for both of us, so she booked it after selecting two shows we wou...
For The Record The 30th annual OCARC Fishing Tournament, Friday, Aug. 4 and Saturday, Aug. 5, is open to anglers of all ages. But forgive John Thomas if he sees Orange County’s longest running rod and reel rodeo as more Opie Taylor than Todd Faircloth. “My tournament is more of a kids’ tournament,” said the director of OCARC, who has been with that organization for 43 years. “I’ve got some kids who fished in my tournament who are bringing their kids now. I usually have 30 to...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School cheerleaders and mascots went to Universal Cheerleaders Association (UCA) camp, June 6 through June 9, at Texas A&M University. The group received Gold Superior Crowd Leading Cheer, Gold Superior X-treme Routine, Spirit Stick each night and Reese Cricchio and Saylor Dronett were in the jump off finals. Reese Cricchio won the jump off for the 9th/JV division, Skylar Henry and Saylor Dronett received the "Pin it Forward" award, Skylar...
The timing for the AustynStrong Benefit tournament could not have been any better.Not only did they raise a whopping $50,000, but the twenty five teams also weighed in some very solid catches in spite of little or no help on Mother Nature’s part. Bubba Sparrow and a dedicated group of volunteers quickly pulled together a group of equally dedicated fishermen and sponsors eager to make this fund raising event a reality.“Austyn’s smile and determination made this a heartfelt work of love for all involved!” The fact that the pop...
KAZ’S KORNER Although major league baseball claims that last night’s annual All-Star game was at the halfway point in the season, both NFL and college football players are getting their bodies prepared for the upcoming training camps, which begin in only a couple of weeks. The NFL camps begin in two weeks, while the collegians start sweating through drills the first part of August. In both cases, there are more players trying to make their respective teams than the limited number of roster spots will allow. So the players are...
I have no idea how many times I have been asked by good friends that I occasionally fish with, “When are you going to put all of the crazy things that have happened on past guide trips on paper.”My pat answer has always been, “What happens in the boat stays in the boat.” The incidents most re-visited over the years range from, “You’ve got to be kidding?” to downright amusing and all are best left for whiling away otherwise boring periods of very little fish catching.Last week, one of the guests of a client I have fished f...
The Bassmaster Elite Series will be coming to Orange and the Sabine River fishery for the third time in six years, B.A.S.S. announced Monday as it revealed its schedule of 2018 events. The Orange stop is April 6-9. The city previously played host to Bassmaster Elite events in 2013 and 2015. Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Central Open was held in Orange in June, 2017. The lineup includes stops at traditional venues like the Sabine River in Orange, Texas, and the St. Lawrence River in Waddington, N.Y., where crowds for past Elite...
Orange’s Sunset Grove Country Club has been one of the city’s top spots for social gatherings since it was built by timber baron Lutcher Stark and opened during the Roaring Twenties. For The Record Cousins Lutcher Stark and Edgar Brown Jr. turned their grandfather’s vision into unforeseen progress for Orange during the middle of the 20th Century. Even a family feud worked out for city fathers, leading as it did to the founding of Orange’s Sunset Grove Country Club. “The wh...
Despite not being able to put all phases of the game together for several seasons, the Houston Astros picked up the players they thought they needed and started the 2017 major league season like a runaway freight train. And there doesn’t seem to be any stopping it as the season reached the halfway point last weekend with the Astros sporting MLB firsts in many categories. First they have the best record in baseball with their 56-27 (.675) worksheet going into yesterday’s (Tuesday’s) action at Atlanta. Houston leads the Ameri...
While the headline for last week’s column read, “Old Dogs Can Still Hunt”, I feel the need to point out that it was in reference to a lure rather than the two anglers.Any lure worth its salt will hunt long after John and I have made our last casts and in that column I was truly talking about the Lunker Lure. I mention this only because of the inordinate number of emails I received from compassionate readers trying to convince me that seventy is the new fifty. While my passion for fishing has not waned, eight hours on the wate...
