Orange Police Reports
A man told Orange police he was attacked with a knife by someone he knows early Sunday morning. Officers report the man had an injury but did not report that he sought medical help. Police went to a...
View ArticlePrivate Contractor Taking Over Orange Water
The Orange City Council will be turning over operations and maintenance of the city’s sewer plant to a private contractor. The city will pay $876,000 for the first year to Inframark LLC under the...
View ArticleInterstate Service Road Bridges Discussed
Orange County will be asking the Texas Department of Transportation to address the service road bridges of Interstate 10 over Adams Bayou. The Commissioners Court Tuesday approved a resolution...
View ArticleOrange Council Tables Items
Joyce Seaton, who lives in a garden home sold by Woodrow Dorman, protests Dorman’s request for a zone change to make a strip of land behind her house commercial. The Orange City Council tabled the...
View ArticleEconomic Development vs. Homeowners
The Orange City Council is now dealing with a question pitting economic development, with jobs and taxes, against protecting homeowners who invested in their community. Etheridge Electric based in...
View ArticleBassmaster Event Cancelled Next Week
Citing recent heavy rains and high water in the Sabine River watershed, B.A.S.S. has decided to postpone the Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Elite presented by Econo Lodge that had been scheduled to begin in...
View ArticleGates Lowered To Three Feet
At 12:30 the Sabine River Authority dropped the dam gates from 4 ft to 3 ft. Toledo Bend currently sits at 172.9 and falling. The flood warning continues for Deweyville… * At 10:45 AM Saturday the...
View ArticleNewton Co Sheriffs Report
by Sheriff Billy Rowles Hope everyone had a great Easter. We had a great sunrise service. For the third year in a row the donkey across the highway started braying at sunrise- let’s see what’s been...
View ArticleRobbery Suspect Arrested
On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at around 7:00a.m. Orange County Deputies responded to OJ’s Mobile Mart, located at 9508 Highway 12 in Orange County in reference to a robbery that just occurred. The...
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Busy Full Moon Weekend For Police
With a full blue moon weekend, Orange police were busy Thursday through Sunday with a variety of complaints, including a foul crime in which someone kicked holes in the drywall of a house being...
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BC Flushing Water Lines
FLUSHING OF WATER LINES IN AREA #1 OF MAP BELOW THURSDAY NIGHT, APRIL 5, 2018 Bridge City Water Department will be flushing scheduled distribution lines in Area #1 of MAP BELOW. We will have crews...
View ArticleCommissioners Spend Money Tuesday
Despite a lengthy 31-item agenda on Tuesday the Commissioners Court handled its business in about an hour. The Commissioners approved the purchase of four Konica copiers for different departments at...
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City Discusses Possible Improvements
Orange city officials had an architect design plans with cost estimates for a new park with splash pad, improvements at Memorial Field, and a community center. Jim Clark of Architectural Alliance...
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Boil Water Notice in Newton Co.
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View ArticleDeath Ruled “Undetermined”
A justice of the peace has ruled the manner of death as “undetermined” for a 26-year-old employee who was killed at a West Orange industrial plant on February 8. Isaiah Sias was pronounced dead at the...
View ArticleOPD Reports Include Assault With Fence Post
A young Orangefield man was injured Tuesday afternoon when he lost control of the motorcycle he was driving on an Interstate 10 access road near FM 1136. Orange police report 21-year-old George William...
View ArticleElites Rescheduled for June 7-10
Bassmaster Elite At The Sabine River Rescheduled For June 7-10 The Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Elite at Sabine River presented by Econo Lodge, which was postponed last week because of heavy rains and...
View ArticleGates Start Closing At Toledo Bend
The Sabine River Authority Thursday afternoon shut six spillway gates at Toledo Bend Reservoir. Five remain open at one foot each. On Wednesday, 11 gates were open at two feet each and Thursday morning...
View ArticleName that thief
If you can identify the theif in this video, please contact the Orange Police Department Detective Division at 409-883-1095. This theft occurred in the Roselawn neighborhood on Camellia. The post Name...
View ArticleBus Stops Go Both Ways
A school bus with warning lights stops on a residential street and all the drivers on the roadway know to stop. A school bus with warning lights stops on the southbound side of 16th Street, and the...
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