Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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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...
For The Record An incredible season of baseball for the West Orange Stark Mustangs has come to an end. On Thurday the Mustangs lost their battle for the UIL Class 4A State Baseball Championship 7-3 to the Argyle Eagles at Disch-Falk Field in Austin. Jack Dallas got the start on the hill for the Mustangs but was relieved by Grant Anderson after the Eagles leaped ahead 5-0 in the top of the second inning. The Mustangs answered in the bottom of the frame as Chase Rutledge...
“What the heck are they using,” asked Oscar Vilma after spending the better part of an hour watching two young fishermen just wear the trout out. Obviously frustrated, he posed the question in slightly stronger words, but the message was clear.He had seen enough. While they were catching fish virtually every cast, Oscar was changing lures virtually every cast and we had four only keepers in the box when his wife, Tina, asked in a serious tone of voice, “Do you have any frozen shrimp?”It was still early in the day, but my...
The West Orange-Stark Mustang baseball team pulled out of Orange this morning headed to Austin for the State Semi-Finals round of the playoffs. Mustang fans crowded the school parking lot and surrounding roads to cheer the team on as the embarked on their journey. The team will play El Campo Wednesday, June 10 at 4:00 pm at the Disch-Faulk field on the campus of the University of Texas. All tickets must be purchased at the gate. Tickets for adults, per session, are $10 and...
During the spring and summer months when the weather gets nice and everybody gets the fishing fever, I get lots of families that like to fish without a whole lot of effort. Times like these mean drifting live bait and just having a good time. I personally would rather use artificial lures when I fish, but if it makes life easier and folks get to enjoy more about the sport of fishing I am all for it. While pre-fishing for some clients who would be bringing their children I decided to see what kind of program I could get going...
Commentary by Chuck Uzzle In his four years as head coach of the West Orange Stark baseball team Shea Landry has seen his program have their share of ups and downs. Early on in Landry’s tenure there were some growing pains as the entire baseball culture went through an extreme overhaul. Landry took his squad and decided to instill some old school attitude and work ethic in order to improve their results. At first it was tough, the cupboard was a little bare when it came to t...
For the second time in the past three years, the Lamar University softball team won the Red Cup, given to the Lamar sports team that logged the most community-service hours over the course of the academic calendar. The softball team logged 757 hours, which ranked among the leaders among all Southland Conference sports teams. “We try to teach our student-athletes to be all-around good people,” Lamar softball coach Holly Bruder said. “Community service is a part of that....
It is amazing what a couple of days of sunshine and a light north wind will do for your attitude if nothing else.It can’t stop the massive amount of water still running downhill from Toledo Bend, but it gave us an opportunity to fish parts of Sabine Lake that we haven’t been able to fish since the end of April. Depending on where you launch on the north end of the lake the ramps may still be underwater, but at least it wasn’t raining and the wind wasn’t a limiting factor....
Astros Earn “A” for First Two Months of 2015 Season One of the biggest surprises this spring is how the Houston Astros got out of the gate for the 2015 Major League Baseball season. Most of their early success came from solid starting pitching and a bullpen that has been virtually impenetrable. Then a few of the hitters caught fire and delivered when the chips were down and the outcome of the game was on the line. The result was the Astros reaching the 30-win plateau before any other major league team and also tying for hav...
Big Thicket National Preserve and the Big Thicket Association invite members of the public to be part of a immersive opportunity, as civilian scientists, to participate in fungal research and specimen collection. Fungi researcher David Lewis will lead a research trip in the Lance Rosier Unit of Big Thicket National Preserve on Saturday, June 13, to collect and document mushroom species. Participants should meet at the Big Thicket Field Research Station in Saratoga, at 10:00...
For the first time in 24 years the West Orange Stark Mustangs have reached the pinnacle of Region III baseball playoffs. This week the Mustangs take on Huffman-Hargrave for the regional championship and are now just one series away from the state baseball tournament. The Mustangs advance after knocking out Carthage last week in the semi-final round. WOS dropped game one 9-0 but coming back and mopping up with game two, 7-3, and winning the round, 4-0, in game three. Mustang...
