Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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PHOTO: Orangefield Bobcat lineman Aaron Galitz slams the sled as Coach Jared Gary leads the workout in preparation for scrimmage action against the Vidor Pirates on Friday. RECORD PHOTO: Mark Dunn Staff Report- For The Record The second week of football practices now moves into scrimmage sessions as Orange County teams go live against area opponents on Friday. Last Friday was the first day Texas high school teams could suit-up in pads and make contact. By Tuesday the...
Jennifer Clarke - For The Record "I'm nobody special," says Coach Josh Smalley, Athletic Director, at Orangefield ISD. He even claims that in his youth he was not a terribly nice guy. One might suggest that if you have met Coach Smalley, one would have a difficult time believing that claim. "At 22, I was as far away from where I am today, as I could be." He credits his turnaround to his family and his faith. Coach Smalley has always wanted to win, but "after growing up,...
Sabryn Crain will bring plenty to the table as a varsity player for the Orangefield Lady Bobcats. Jeff Fults - For The Record Area Volleyball kicked off two a days this past Monday along with football. Although temperatures are high that does not seem to matter to the Lady Cardinals working out on the track during mid day. Getting into shape is always one of BC Head Coach Becca Peveto's highest priorities. With the loss of hard hitting Alexus Henry, Kaitlin Thayer will be...
Local Fishing - Capt. Dickie Colburn There are those that would write it off as simply a coincidence, but Trey Smith called me last week and reminded me that the tough fishing in the river and Sabine Lake was almost over.“The bite turns around every year, regardless of conditions, as soon as the OCARC tournament is in the books.” Fortunately, for the 275 fishermen that fished the event last weekend, the bite actually turned around the day before the tournament.We were ble...
Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bear Head Coach Randy Crouch lines out the offense during practice this week. RECORD PHOTO: Lawrence Trimm *** Staff Report- For The Record The 2015 high school football season is underway as practices began for Orange County teams on Monday with full contact set to start on Friday. The Bridge City Cardinals, Orangefield Bobcats, Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears, West Orange Stark-Mustangs and Vidor Pirates all hit the field early before temperatur...
Jennifer Clarke - For The Record Bridge City High School is changing the face of its football program. After a statewide search for a football coach, Dwayne DuBois, previously of Hardin-Jefferson, is starting the new season invested in the kids and community. Coach DuBois coaches on and off the field, and he wants to see his athletes become good citizens. "I may not see the results of our work for fifteen to twenty years, but we teach the kids they have 365 chances to win....
Mark Dunn- For The Record Day One of the 2015 high school football season Monday morning found Orange County teams hustling in the Southeast Texas heat. The Bridge City Cardinals, Orangefield Bobcats, Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears, West Orange Stark-Mustangs and Vidor Pirates all hit the field early before temperatures climbed up to 90 in the annual ritual once known as “two-a-days.” In Bridge City the season kicked off at 6:45 a.m. to usher in a new era for the Car...
Cardinals fans have time remaining to get tickets for Baylor game Tickets for Lamar University’s football game at Baylor are available through the LU Ticket Office, but time is running out. The deadline to purchase tickets for the showdown in Waco, Texas is Thursday, Aug. 20, at noon. Tickets are $45, and are available for pickup at the LU Ticket Office located on the west side of the Montagne Center. Fans can order tickets for the game by calling (409) 880-1715, or by logging onto the athletics website at www. L...
Let the Games Begin The water clarity in Sabine Lake is still on the dingy side for this time of the year, but it is improving on a daily basis.The river is in very good shape and we are now seeing more shad and finger mullet in the bayous than we have seen in months.Add to that the fact that the wind has even backed off a little and area anglers just might catch a break with three tournaments coming up in the next two weeks! The Triangle Tail Chasers fished their final qualifying tournament last weekend and posted some very...
Cowboys Still Have Seahawks, Packers in Their Way in NFC The Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks all came within one play of not losing their final game of the 2014 National Football League season. The Cowboys had that controversial touchdown pass overturned which cost them the playoff game against Green Bay, the Packers had that fumbled on-side kick that helped them lose to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC championship game and the Seahawks called that devastating pass play on the goal line that New Eng...
About an hour from Orange on FM 420 north of Kountze is the Big Thicket Visitors Center. Inside the building are displays of animal and plant life in the unique Big Thicket National Park. There are models of insect eating plants, the four poisonous snakes in the region, a large hornets nest and a mounted black bear of the size that once roamed freely in the Thicket. There is also information on all of the different areas and sanctuaries within the national park. There is n...
Broomsticks and Buggy Whips I’m not sure what they call it but I know there is a name for it, the disease that plagues all fishermen and causes them to pick up every fishing rod they see and examine it as if they were searching for the sword of Excalibur. It’s always fun to walk through the rod aisle of your favorite tackle store and watch as anxious anglers put the rods on display through their own brand of testing. Shaking the rod in an exaggerated hook set or casting motion seems to be the most popular test that per...
The fact that I could see the foot of the troll motor after lowering it over the bow was a welcomed change.My grandson, Andrew, and I had just slowed down to check out a small group of terns and that was the first time that I had noticed that the water in Sabine Lake had cleared up a little bit. The terns were excitedly working over the top of some small trout so we quickly moved on after catching and releasing four or five fish.It wasn’t until we returned that evening that w...
Houston's Favored to Host High School State Football FInals Back in 2006 the University Interscholastic League began having predetermined locations for the state football playoff finals. This may bend Dallas Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones out of shape because he’d like for those 10 games to be played over three days at his AT&T Stadium in Arlington every year. But many high school football coaches feel that because of the huge number of high schools in the Metroplex Area, teams playing a championship football game against an opp...
The National Park Service (NPS) is turning 100 years old in August 2016! Throughout the Centennial year ahead, we are proudly celebrating our role in helping Americans make meaningful connections to nature, history, and culture. We encourage people of all ages to explore and discover their public lands in the hope of creating positive connections that will ensure support and enjoyment for generations to come. Our national parks are often referred to as “America’s best ide...
“This bass fishing at night is just killing my white perch fishing,” said James Hughes, “but I am not complaining as the bite has been addicting.”The seventy-six year old retired carpenter usually spends the entire summer contentedly catching crappie over his brush piles with friends and the Grandkids, but that all changed two weeks ago. “The crappie bite has improved recently, but I haven’t fished them since my oldest boy, Carl, got me to throwing that plastic frog a week or so ago,” stated Hughes.“The only problem is that...
Earl Thomas III, Super Bowl champion with the Seattle Seahawks, Texas Longhorn and West Orange-Stark High alumnus, will offer his 2015 Free Football Skill Camp from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 26-27 at West Orange-Stark High School field, 1400 Newton St. The camp is for ages 8-18. All campers should be dropped off and picked up at the school. T-shirts may be picked up at 7:30 a.m. on Friday. Camp starts at 8 a.m. All campers should wear their camp T-shirt which will be provided and black shorts. Thomas wrote all football...
Orangefield Football season ticket sales for current ticket holders will be July 27 - Aug. 7 from 8:00 am-11:00am and 12:30 pm-3:00 pm Monday thru Friday at the field house. New season ticket sales will begin Aug. 10- Aug. 21 from 8:00 am-11:00 am and 12:30 pm-3:00 pm Monday through Friday at the field house. If you have any questions, please call Melanee Scales at 735-4504....
Big Thicket National Preserve and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service of Hardin County would like to invite interested landowners and the general public from the Big Thicket area to learn more about Feral Hogs, in a one-day workshop. This free public program will be held on Wednesday, August 5, from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm at the Big Thicket National Preserve Visitor Center, located at 6102 FM 420, Kountze, TX 77625. This free program will provide a brief overview of feral hogs...
Due to the fact that Mother Nature continues to rain on Sabine Lake anglers’ parade, the usual day to day banter in local tackle shops concerning the CCA S.T.A.R tournament has been nonexistent. Not a single fisherman that I questioned earlier this week knew what was leading the trout division on the upper coast and that included everyone from the sales personnel in Academy to the folks running the local tackle shops! We are talking about a tournament that lasts the entire s...
All last weekend golf fans were deluged with such terms as fescue, backstop, vertigo and Stimpmeter by the Fox-TV announcers who were covering the 115th U.S. Open Golf Tournament that was played at Chambers Bay just outside Tacoma, Wash. This was the first attempt by the United States Golf Association to have a major golf tourney in the Northwestern area of the country. Apparently it’s a big deal for the U.S. Open to be held at specific golf courses in the United States, although the only benefit I can see from landing the m...
The big center console finally drifts to a stop in the early morning darkness as the anchor rope comes tight. Solitary figures equipped with the latest gear that would make a NAVY Seal jealous slide over the gunnels into the warm still water and begin casting in all directions, probing the shallow flat for the fish of their dreams. These anglers have achieved their goal of being at that special place when the fish begin to feed, the scene is picture perfect and the plan has no flaws. One hefty fish after another crushes the...
A stiff and consistent 15 mile per hour wind escalated to 25 to 30 miles per hour in less time than it took to re-tie a lure.It was a “Gotcha” move on Mother Nature’s part and I speculated aloud that the approaching tropical depression may have arrived sooner than predicted. “How can you tell,” snapped Brett Melancon while chasing his cap across the floor of the boat, “It rains and blows like hell at some point every day….doesn’t it?”Like everyone else that has caught trout with any consistency over the past month, we we...
For the first time all four of The Record’s area baseball teams competed in the same district. The Bridge City Cardinals, the West Orange-Stark Mustangs, the Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears and Orangefield Bobcats all became part of the newly formed Dist. 24-4A. When baseball practice began way back in cold, wet January no one could have foreseen the amazing and surprising outcome of the 2015 baseball season. It was expected that the LCM Bears, the traditional baseball p...
Whenever a team gets the season started on the right foot, there comes a time when a lull in the victories comes along. That lull happened to the Houston Astros the first two weeks in June when they were shackled with a seven-game losing streak and saw their comfortable foothold on first place in the American League West Division slowly disintegrate. Six of those seven losses occurred on their recent road trip to Toronto and a series against the Chicago White Sox, but their return home last weekend to take on the Seattle...
