Lark Street Sewers
Lark Street in Pinehurst is getting new sewers and the project is nearing completion. Simco Enterprises was awarded the contract for the sewer project under a grant from the Texas Department of...
View ArticleOrange Police Weekend Briefs
A thief took advantage of a man defrosting his wife’s SUV Friday morning in Greenway Park. Officer Logan Holland with the Orange Police Department reported the man had left the keys in a 2003 blue Ford...
View ArticleWest Orange Calls Election
The City of West Orange will hold its municipal election May 7 in a joint election with the West Orange-Cove School District. Both polling locations will be in the West Orange Community Center on...
View ArticleCommissioners To Meet In Vidor
The Orange County Commissioners Court will change venues for the second time in two years next week. Tuesday the Court approved holding its meeting next Tuesday at the Vidor City Hall instead of the...
View ArticleOrange City Council Meets
Businessman David Meaux Tuesday morning asked Orange City Council to put the city’s nativity scene on a meeting agenda and have a public vote to keep the Christian symbol at city hall. Also during the...
View ArticleOC Sheriff’s Calls Feb. 2-8
Orange County Sheriff’s Office calls February 2-8 Theft, 7:55 a.m. February 2, 200 block Carla Street in Vidor. Possession of methamphetamine, 1:49 p.m. February 2. Sheriff’s narcotics offices bought...
View ArticleAnderson Not Running
The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to have the motto In God We Trust placed on all City of Pinehurst vehicles. Alderman T. W. Permenter brought up the suggestion for the motto to be on...
View ArticleEDC Interviews
There are three candidates for the position of executive director for the Orange County Economic Development Corporation. The Board of Directors for the Economic Development Corporation met Wednesday...
View ArticleBC Discusses Housing
The council chamber at City Hall was a full house for a workshop Tuesday to discuss the possibility of an affordable housing project coming to Bridge City. Arx Advantage from Austin and the Park...
View ArticleTwo Collisions in Orange
A Bridge City teenager told Orange police he was talking on his cell phone when he ran a stop sign and collided with an SUV. The collision at 10th and Main streets caused the SUV to hit a fire hydrant....
View ArticleESD 3 Wants New Building
The Little Cypress Fire and Rescue Department will keep operating as usual even though big sales tax payments will be ending. Bobby Manshack, a board member of Orange County Emergency Services District...
View ArticleTwo Arrested For Meth
Narcotics officers from the Orange Police Department and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men for possession of methamphetamine after a traffic stop Tuesday afternoon. Orange Police...
View ArticleWayside Horns At Green Ave.
Union Pacific Railroad has installed the Green Avenue wayside horns that have been needed before Orange gets a “quiet zone” to stop trains from blowing at every crossing. But the quiet zone will not...
View ArticlePinehurst Polycarts
Republic Trash Service collects the garbage in Pinehurst. City Administrator Robbie Hood said that beginning next week Republic will only pick up garbage in the large plastic containers they have...
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$4.8 Mill Bust
On Thursday February 11, 2016, around 11:30AM, Orange County Sheriff’s Office Deputies observed a white Volvo Tractor Trailer truck travelling eastbound failing to drive in a single lane. Deputies...
View ArticleFather Jim Meets The Pope
Orange native Father Jim Sichko was among 100 priests chosen to live alongside Pope Francis at his residence in Rome for an extended amount of time. “The experience was out of this world,” he said. “I...
View ArticleFire Truck Workshop
The Orange City Council will have a special meeting to “discuss the design, specifications and purchase of fire trucks.” The public meeting will be at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, February 22, in the training...
View ArticleEarly Voting Begins Tuesday
Early voting for the Republican and Democratic primary races starts Tuesday and runs through February 26. The dates and hours in Orange County will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, February 16,...
View ArticleHouse fire in Mauriceville
A house was destroyed by fire Friday night in Mauriceville but the family was not home at the time. Firefighters from the Orange County Emergency Services District No. 4 went to the 4300 block of...
View ArticleWeekend Police Reports
An 18-year-old from Nederland was injured Sunday afternoon after he lost control of the motorcycle he was driving on MacArthur Drive. Orange police report the accident was caused by a red Mustang...
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