Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
Hometown News For Orange County, Texas
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For some strange reason I feel like I’m stuck keep repeating the same week over and over. We continue to have extreme heat, no rain, plenty of southwest wind and more of the same nonsense from those engaged in the witch hunt of our former president. It’s just more of the same stuff we can’t control but unfortunately have to live with but good things are on the horizon. It doesn’t make any difference if you’re a hunter or a fisherman because this time of the year has something...
Little Cypress Mauriceville has a new volleyball coach this year. Jonathan Snipes comes to LCM with lots of experience coaching at other area schools before moving here. Snipes spent ten years at Hamshire-Fannett as an assistant coach, transferred to East Chambers where he was the head track coach for seven years, and moved his family to the Little Cypress Mauriceville school district in 2021. When the volleyball coaching position became open Snipes applied for it and got the...
The high school volleyball season began this month for Orangefield. The Lady Bobcats will be playing in tournaments for the most part until the district games start in early September. Head Coach Ashlee Peevey of Orangefield said the Lady Bobcats had a successful season last year. "We played in a pretty tough district with Hardin and East Chambers which accounted for our three losses in district action. The Lady Bobcats made it to the second round of the playoffs before being...
The weather was good and the wind picked up to make the temperatures feel a little cooler during the first Friday and Saturday in August. The result was another great OCARC fishing tournament in Orange. OCARC Director John Thomas was thrilled with the 246 entrees in the 35th Annual OCARC Fishing Tournament and of those participants who weighed in a fish 73 of them were under the age of 16 years old. "The tournament had a great turn out. The weigh-in at the Riverside Pavilion...
After its strong run in the playoffs two years ago, last season was a little disappointing for Little Cypress Mauriceville in football. The Bears finished third in their competitive district and were eliminated in the first round of the state playoffs by Kilgore. Head Coach Eric Peevey of LCM called last year a positive season. "We had a winning record at 6-5 which was only the third time in school history the Bears have had back-to-back winning seasons. I think our...
There is a new head football coach in Bridge City with a familiar name. Chad Landry has been with the baseball program at Bridge City for 15 years and was named the top man for the Cardinals in football during this past off season. Landry steps into the Cardinals' head coaching position a season after they went 1-9 without a win in district. "We're kind of in a building phase coming off of last year when we were riddled with injuries. It was a tough spot for our guys, but we...
Last year was not a typical season in football for West Orange-Stark. The Mustangs made the playoffs but were eliminated in the first round of the post season by the Bellville Brahmas. West Orange-Stark was led by Hiawatha Hickman who was promoted to be the athletic director and the new head football coach with the retirement of longtime Mustang coach Cornel Thompson. The season had its ups and downs as WOS finished at 5-6 for a rare losing record by the winningest team in...
The Orangefield Bobcats are three weeks away from kicking off a new football season and are hoping for a repeat of last year for themselves. The Bobcats were district champions for the first time in over three decades and won a playoff game. Head Coach Josh Smalley was obviously pleased with his 9-3 Bobcats in 2022. "It was a good season for us. We had a running back that set the single season rushing record with 2400 yards, we had a lot of positives, and we had a couple kids...
The Biden administration announced recently that schools who teach programs like Hunters Education, archery, or any sort of competitive shooting will have their federal funds from the ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) blocked by using a loophole in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. The Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona, moved to block funding citing such programs violate the BSCA by providing training in the use of “dangerous weapons”. Several Senators, inc...
Hopefully, the fish will be biting when the 35th annual OCARC Fishing Tournament is held the first weekend of August in Orange County. The tournament will give 32 fishermen cash prizes while also helping the clients of the OCARC. The tournament will include door prizes for participants and cash awards for those anglers catching the largest fish in twelve different types. The OCARC Fishing Tournament starts Friday, August 4, with the weigh in at 5:00 PM on Saturday, August 5,...
Local high school athletes started their summer workouts for football with their coaches on Monday, July 31. The first games for most schools during the 2023 high school football season will be the week of Friday, August 25. During the last week of July the coaches at Little Cypress Mauriceville and Orangefield held their summer football camps for their younger student athletes. Both camps had great turnouts for pre-high school aged students. The future is bright for the LCM...
The first day of preseason practices for high school football teams was Monday, July 31, in Orange County. The summer heat was intense with the temperature around one hundred degrees in the late afternoon. The Little Cypress Mauriceville Bears practiced in the morning and then again in the late afternoon into the evening. The workouts were regulated to insure the players and coaches did not get overheated and experience any trauma because of the hot weather. The head trainer...
A select team of twelve girls from the local area played during the third week of July as the GT Shockers in the FASA (Fastpitch America Softball Association) World Series held at Branson, Missouri. The GT Shockers took home the championship trophy on Saturday, July 22, rallying after dropping into the losers bracket and advancing all the way to win the tournament. The opposing teams were all elite competition of select teams from around the nation for the girls from...
The Parks brothers of last year's outstanding Orangefield High School golf team received further honors in July. Xander and Lincoln Parks were both named to the Class 3A 2023 Texas High School All-State Boys Golf Team. Xander and Lincoln were chosen as part of the ten-member select statewide golf team for Class 3A. Topping the list of ten golfers was Xander with Lincoln in the eighth position. Xander graduated from Orangefield at the end of May. Lincoln will be a junior this...
The fire that started on June 29 outside the newly constructed press box at Dan R. Hooks Stadium caused significant damage to the stadium and the neighboring West Orange-Cove Event Center. The damage will cause the event center to be closed for at least four months according to a press release from the West Orange-Cove Consolidated Independent School District (WOCCISD). The press release stated the cause of the fire has been investigated thoroughly. It was determined that the...
Harley-Davidson Motorcycle celebrated its 120th anniversary the second week of July. The four day festival July 12-16 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin the hometown of Harley-Davidson saw hundreds of thousands of people come there from around the world to join the celebration that featured live music performances, fun activities, and entertainment for motorcycle enthusiasts of all ages. The Harley Owners Group or HOG Chapter 5298 known as Teddy Morse Cowboy Harley from the Golden...
Hands down, without a doubt, one of the top 3 most asked questions I get from local and out of town anglers alike is “how do you read the tide chart for this area?”Most any fisherman who spends time on our local waters has a theory about how the tides work and where they need to be to catch fish during those tides.Surprisingly enough there are plenty of people who don’t understand how important the tides really are, or for that matter what a tide is. According to Webster’s dic...
A special challenge chess tournament was held in Orange on Saturday, July 15, between clubs from Beaumont and Sulphur. The tournament at the First Presbyterian Church of Orange was very close and came down to the last couple of games to determine which team was the winner. The Casa de Ajedrez, Spanish for House of Chess, from Sulphur played the Beaumont Chess Club in four rounds with eight games in each round format. Eight club members represented their respective club in the...
Two Bridge City Cardinal baseball players signed scholarships on Monday, July 10, to play at the college level. JS Bearden III and Brice Swanton signed their scholarships in the competition gymnasium at Bridge City High School. Bearden played outfield and was a middle relief pitcher for the Cardinals. JS will still be wearing Cardinal red next season when he joins the Lamar University baseball team. Swanton was the shortstop for the Cardinals his four years on the varsity...
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...
The mercury in the thermometer shows temperatures creeping towards triple digits and everybody you look at appears to have just emerged from a swimming pool. The heat waves along the road and the hood of my truck cannot dampen my enthusiasm as I raise my binoculars to get a better look at a few mottled ducks along a secluded marsh pond. The very sight of ducks right now coupled with the fact that we just flipped another calendar page is enough to put a smile on my face. A few...
This has been a great year for softball at Orangefield with the Lady Bobcats winning the district championship and advancing in the state playoffs their furthest in the school's history. Another accolade was achieved this month with assistant softball coach Sarah Nash being selected the Assistant Coach of the Year in Class 3A for Region 5. The selection as the assistant coach of the year surprised Coach Nash. "I was honestly so shocked. My sister actually nominated me. It...
A familiar hand will be guiding the Bridge City softball program in the coming school year. Kylie Bradley has been chosen as the new head coach for the Lady Cardinals after serving as an assistant coach last season. The head softball coach at Bridge City is a goal Bradley has had on her mind. "It may be a little sooner than I thought might come, but that's been the goal to be in Bridge City and to help build a program whether I was assisting or I was the head coach, Bradley...
For more than four decades the West Orange-Stark Mustangs have thrilled their fans with winning football teams. Now one of their longtime coaches is writing a history of the winningest high school football program in the state of Texas. Cornel Thompson was the linebacker coach in the first few seasons of West Orange-Stark (WOS), was promoted to defensive coordinator where he served for almost three decades, and concluded his coaching career as the head coach of the Mustangs....
A fire outside the new press box under construction at Dan R. Hooks Stadium adjacent to West Orange-Stark High School was extinguished Thursday, June 29, with no injuries reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation. A citizen driving past the stadium noticed the fire about four o'clock Thursday afternoon and called in the emergency. The West Orange Volunteer Fire Department responded to the stadium shortly after the fire was reported. According to Tyler Roberts...
