Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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SANTA’S VISIT TO THE MEADOWS REVEALS CHRISTMAS GIFTS For The Record- Joe Kazmar The month of November is one I would really like to forget, because I spent it all either in Beaumont Baptist Hospital or rehabbing at The Meadows in Orange. Time was very confusing to me for much of the time. Things began to clear for me when I transferred to The Meadows. Thanksgiving came and went and the next day the huge Christmas tree was put up and decorated in the lobby. As an added surprise Santa made a visit to the patients and even p...
WOS Mustang running back Jeremiah Shaw dives in for a touchdown as the Mustangs defeat Sweetwater 24-6 to win the state football championship. RECORD PHOTO: Tony Gunn For The Record- Meri Elen Jacobs As quarterback Jack Dallas lined up to take the last snap from center Ryan Ragsdale, tears poured down his face. In fact, the tears had been falling for several minutes. It wasn’t just the realization that they had beaten the Sweetwater Mustangs, 24-6, to win their second straight...
WOS Mustang lineman Joseph Morris, seen above carrying the 2016 state football championship trophy, has been selected as Div. II 12-4A Most Valuable Player For The Record West Orange-Stark’s “Chain Gang” defense dominated Class 4A Division II football in the state of Texas and the same was true for the All-District team for 12-4A Division II. Morris Joseph, a two-way tackle for the back-to-back state champions, was named as District Most Valuable Player on the honor squad...
For The Record - By Chuck Uzzle December and January, two months that for a long time were rarely associated with fishing of any kind in this area, have now become almost like any other good month to wet a hook. New techniques that were brought up from the lower coast of Texas have transformed the dismal winter months into a saltwater fisherman’s paradise. Trophy trout of epic proportions have now become synonymous with Sabine Lake, if you don’t believe me just ask around places like Houston and Galveston. Our small little ho...
PHOTO: WOS head football coach Cornell Thompson is surrounded by victorious Mustangs after defeating Stafford. The state championship victory over Sweetwater is testament to the team's winning formula. Dave Rogers-For The Record Steve McCarty remembers when West Orange-Stark High made its first trip to the playoffs. “I never will forget,” the first Mustangs head coach said of that long-ago Class 4A bi-district game. It took place back in 1979, when 4A was as high as you cou...
Photo: WOS Mustang quarterback Jack Dallas poses for a photo with his father Tony Dallas after the Mustangs defeat Sweetwater 24-6 in the state football championship on Friday. Dallas was also named Most Valuable Player Offense. RECORD PHOTO: Tony Gunn Larry Johnson - For The Record West Orange-Stark’s football team, ranked No. 1 in the state all-season, capped its first 16-win season with a 24-6 win over Sweetwater Friday in the UIL Class 4A Division II championship game a...
AFC SOUTH CHAMPION SHOULD BE TEXANS OR OLD HOUSTON TEAM For The Record- By Joe Kazmar The Houston Texans’ Super Bowl game could have very well been at Indianapolis Sunday--a place where they lost the first 13 games before winning one last year—because a loss would have virtually eliminated them from any post-season action. The Texans entered Sundays crucial American Football Conference South Division bedraggled after consecutive losses to Oakland, San Diego and Green Bay, but still in a three-way tie with Indianapolis and...
For The Record- By Capt. Dickie Colburn Determined not to waste the entire day due to a mid-day meeting, I decided to make a conscious effort to stream line a burgeoning collection of soft plastic lures stowed away in my boat.I try to do this once a year and it usually takes place when the winter trout bite kicks off as I will be throwing only three baits, a Corky Fat Boy, Maniac Mullet or Softdine XL most of the time. The largest of Sabine Lake’s big trout population will readily track down one of these slow moving mullet i...
For The Record - Meri Elen Jacobs The Mustangs stormed into NRG Stadium Friday night and left no doubt in anyones’ mind as to who was moving on to the state championship game to be played in “Jerry’s World” this Friday at noon. WO-S will face the Sweetwater Mustangs, who beat Gilmer, 48-35 last week. “We have 48 minutes left in our season,” Head Coach Cornel Thompson said. “This is the game that everyone has been waiting for but we tell the kids that this is a business trip...
The WOS vs. Sweetwater, State Football game will be played on Friday, December 16 at 12:00pm at ATT Stadium, Dallas, Tx. Tickets will be on sale in the WOS Athletic office the following days: Tuesday, December 13th from 9-12 and 1-3pm Wednesday, December 14th from 9-12pm only Ticket prices are $14 for Adults and $10 for students. All tickets at the gate are $15. Important info: • Age 1 and up must have a ticket. • Limit 6 adults and 4 student tickets per person • Gates open 1.5 hours prior to game time • You can purchas...
ASTROS TRY TO FIX BIGGEST WEAKNESS EARLY For The Record- By Joe Kazmar The Houston Astros found out early in the 2016 major league baseball season that they had a huge deficiency in their regular batting order. More than half of the starting lineup had batting averages around or under the .200 mark and with plenty of strikeouts to boot. The front office kept jockeying players from their Class AAA affiliate to the majors, but with little success. Most of the elevated players came to the majors with glaring weaknesses, which...
6 yr old Halen Maxwell is all smiles as he proudly shows off his first ducks. For The Record- By Chuck Uzzle After a 12 day layoff the Texas duck season is set to resume once again on December 10th and it happens to fall just perfect after the coldest weather of the year. The weather man appears to have cooperated as forecasts call for freezing and near freezing temps for several days leading up to Saturday’s opener. Reports from farther up the flyway suggest the biggest i...
For The Record- Meri Elen Jacobs Neither wind, nor rain, nor cold could keep the Mustangs from performing Friday night in the 48-5 win over the Giddings Buffaloes at Texan Drive Stadium in New Caney. Although things started off a little off kilter, once the Mustangs got going, they didn’t stop until the last seconds ticked off of the clock. The Mustangs will now face the Navarro Panthers this Friday night at 7:30 in NRG Stadium in the semi-final round. “After a shaky sta...
For The Record- By Capt. Dickie Colburn We were still treading water Monday following a month’s worth of rain in a single weekend. Boats would have been more appropriate than floats had they not postponed Friday night’s Christmas parade. When it comes to weather, we seem to never get a moderate change in conditions.It is either so hot and dry that a weed won’t grow or flooded streets and ditches overnight.We badly needed about a third of all of this rain for parched yards, but the other two thirds is quickly running off i...
For The Record Don’t look for the head coach of the Navarro Panthers to say anything crazy and wind up on the West Orange-Stark bulletin board this week. You could almost hear Les Goad genuflecting to Cornel Thompson and the Mustangs over the phone Tuesday afternoon. “Well, they’re just awfully talented and have been here multiple times,” Goad said about the Mustangs, his team’s opponents in a Class 4A Division II state semifinal game at 7:30 p.m. Friday at NRG Stadium i...
Elizabeth Tennison McClelland, 85, passed away Wednesday, November 30, 2016, after a short illness. She was a charter member of St. John’s Episcopal Church and Beta Sigma Phi sorority, an avid bridge player, and a frequent visitor to Silsbee’s Senior Citizen Center. Survivors include her daughter, Gail Hudson; son, Rick McClelland; five granddaughters; and two great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband of sixty-three years, Robert O. McClelland, Sr.; and her son, Robert O. McClelland, Jr. A gathering of Mrs...
For The Record- Chuck Uzzle The first half of duck season sputtered to a merciful end for most local Texas hunters and on this Sunday it closes for Louisiana hunters as well. Reports from all along the coast were almost mirror images of one another, the combination of few birds, high bluebird skies, and little wind was the kiss of death for most hunters. The lack of any “hunter friendly” weather was easily the biggest problem most waterfowlers faced, the steady stream of cold fronts promised by the weather folks bas...
For the Record When folks look back on the 2016 Bridge City Cardinals football team, they’ll see a group of players that refused to quit. The clock just ran out on them, as Stafford won the third-round Class 4A Division I playoff game 37-28 last Friday in Channelview. That after Bridge City rallied from a 31-14 deficit to get within three points. Only an unsuccessful onsides kickoff with 1:59 to go separated the never-say-die Cards from a tying field goal or winning t...
For The Record- By Meri Elen The Mustangs proved Friday night that they are definitely not a one dimensional team. The Bellville Brahmas were able to slow down the run but were unsuccessful at slowing down the pass as WO-S scored five touchdowns through the air to beat Bellville, 49-7. The win sets up a match-up with the Giddings Buffaloes this Friday at 7:30 pm in Texan Drive Stadium. “We are glad to be 13-0 and are looking to be 14-0,” Head Coach Cornel Thompson said. “Be...
For The Record- Capt. Dickie Colburn At that exact moment there was every indication that while Jack Valence and his son, Daryl and I may not be anchored in a great flounder spot, we were at the very least anchored in a popular one! I hadn’t fished for flounder with mud minnows since Foret’s Tackle closed, but they brought some with them and I wasn’t on a bite that held any more promise. The anchor rope was no sooner stretched tight than Daryl requested the net and his Dad s...
For The Record- Meri Elen Jacobs Although most of the teams that the Mustangs have faced this season have run the Slot T offense, the Chain Gang defense proved that they could handle whatever offense was thrown at them when they faced the Robinson Rockets, who run the Wing T. The high-powered Waco Robinson offense came into the game averaging 587 yards and 54 points a game, with the nationally ranked Dynamic Duo of Chase Allison and Braxton Ashcraft. However, the Mustang defen...
For The Record- Chuck Uzzle There are very few things in this world that are as beautiful to watch as a well trained dog, no matter what breed or what task they are bred to accomplish I love watching all of them. As a wide eyed 8 year old with shotgun in hand I watched a pair of exceptional English Pointers scour the east Texas and southwest Louisiana landscape in search of quail and woodcock on a routine basis. The pointers were the pride and joy of my grandfather, Olin...
For the Record The Bridge City Cardinals will realize a dream for every high school football player Thursday – to still be practicing on Thanksgiving Day. Of course, this year that means they’ve played themselves into the third round of the post-season, something the Cardinals hadn’t done since 2005. “I was excited for the kids,” coach Dwayne DuBois said of his team’s 39-19 win over Bay City last week. Friday, the 9-2 Cardinals take on Stafford at 7 p.m. at Channelview...
For The Record-Colburn I hate cell phones and computers.My phone invariably rings at the most inopportune time or makes that little dinging noise which occasionally necessitates another painful attempt at trying to return the text.And, our computer never seems to work correctly unless my wife is at home at the time! Now, that was a therapeutic rant.Social media was more bearable this past week as the majority of my incoming texts and emails featured pictures of big flounder...
For The Record- Meri Elen The third phase of the season for the West Orange-Stark Mustangs began like the other two did. With a stand full of fans…a lot of cheering…excited Mustangs….lots of points to no points. The Mustangs faced the Tarkington Longhorns for the first time ever and left a brand to the tune of 73-0.The victory advances WO-S to the second round to take on the Waco Robinson Rockets Friday night at 7:30 at Woodforest Bank Stadium in Shenandoah. “Congrats to the...
