My five cents…
by Sen. Robert Nichols, Senate District 3 While the Legislature has officially passed the 70th day, the halfway point of the session, most of the work is done in this last half of a long marathon....
View Article13 YO Drives Into Home
Thursday Orange Police released information on a crash early Sunday morning in which a 13-year-old driver fleeing from police hit a parked pickup truck and a house on Norwood Drive. The house ended up...
View ArticleJanuary Sales Tax Numbers
January sales across Orange County fell from the same time in 2018 as people recover from Hurricane Harvey, according to sales tax returns. Sales spiked for more than a year after the August 2017...
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Gothia Explains CC Delay
The reactions were surprise and disappointment when the Commissioners Court announced this week it would not appoint a new County Judge until the last week of March at the earliest. The four...
View ArticlePhilmon Arrested
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office Friday afternoon announced that 32-year-old Raychyl D. Philmon, the mother of an 18-month-old toddler who died of suffocation, is now in the Orange County Jail on...
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Man Arrested For Black Tar Heroin
On Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 at approximately 2:38 PM, investigators with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Division observed a silver Toyota 4 Runner commit several traffic violations...
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Orange Building Permits For February
The building permits for February depict a change coming to Orange. The city received a permit for two “City Hall” signs at 812 16th Street. The city will be moving to the new address, the former...
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Man Shot Twice On Rein St.
On March 23 at 10:07 pm, a call was received by the Orange Police Department in regards to a gunshot victim at 6th and Rein St. Upon the arrival of officers at 10:08 pm, a 24 year old man from Orange...
View ArticleNewton Co. Sheriff’s Report
by Sheriff Billy Rowles Pretty good week around here last week. Let’s see what went on. Friday, we had a nine-hour man hunt. Officers got Larry Land stopped in the Liberty Community. We had felony...
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Two Assaulted In Separate Incidents
A female employee at the Waffle House on 27th Street was attacked and choked by two customers Saturday night. People seeing the assault outside the restaurant broke it up and the man and woman drove...
View ArticleWilliams A Member Of “Silent Service”
As citizens of Orange go about their daily lives, members of the U.S. Navy’s “Silent Service” work beneath the ocean’s waves, continuing a tradition that only a small fraction of military members will...
View ArticleCounty Meets With Corps
The Commissioners did not meet on Tuesday because they were attending a forum with the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Galveston. The Corps was giving a presentation on the proposed dike to...
View ArticleOrange Council Meets
After working for months on a new ordinance regulating tow trucks, the Orange City Council Tuesday tabled a vote to make the new rules official. The action came after Chad Gilbeaux and other drivers...
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Phelan Gives Update From Austin
The Texas Legislature is beginning the work of compiling a new budget to last two years and State Representative Dade Phelan said there are two different plans to give teachers extra pay. The Texas...
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Thibodeaux, Claybar Fill Seats
The Commissioners Court was looking for someone with experience to appoint to fill the position of County Judge, and they found it in the person that served longer in that position than anyone else in...
View ArticleAccident Sends One To Hospital
A collision at Front and Eighth streets Wednesday morning caused a pickup truck to hit a tree by the Orange police station and sent the driver to a hospital. 48-year-old Rory Lynn Toney of Orange was...
View ArticleOC Sheriff’s Calls Mar. 18-24
Orange County Sheriff’s Office Calls March 18-24 Cruelty to animals, 11:53 p.m. March 18, 600 block of Spoonmore Road in Vidor. Theft, 3:32 p.m. March 18, Burrus Street in Vidor. Theft, 5 p.m. March...
View ArticleOrange Grows A Little
The city of Orange is now 1.28 acres larger. On Tuesday, the city council passed the final reading of an annexation along Interstate 10 that is adjacent to the current western city limits. The owner...
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Swearing In Held Friday
Oaths of Office were given to the new County Judge and the new Constable of Precinct One on Friday. The Ceremony took place in the 128th District Courtroom at the Orange County Courthouse. Carl...
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Camphor Trees Have History
Gardeners pulling three-inch, waxy-leafed seedling trees out of beds likely don’t know those baby trees are remnants of a 19th Century economic development project. Camphor trees shade many spots in...
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