Early Voting Starts Monday
Early voting will start Monday for city councils, school boards and special districts having elections May 7. Early voting will end on Tuesday, May 3. Several entities were able to cancel elections...
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Abandoned Building Burns
The former convenience store at Hwy. 87 and Patillo Road burned down Saturday night. The building has been unoccupied for sometime. The post Abandoned Building Burns appeared first on KOGT.
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EcoFest Draws Big Crowd
Shangri La Botanical Gardens played host to Ecofest Saturday with the largest crowd ever. It culminated with the popular butterfly release. The post EcoFest Draws Big Crowd appeared first on KOGT.
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Local Group In Ecuador During Quake
Pastor Jason Fuller was planning to enjoy a meal at a metropolitan mall in Quito, Ecuador, Saturday night with his 11-year-old son and three others from First Baptist Church in Orange. As they sat in a...
View ArticleFormer Councilman Passes/EDC Meets
Former Orange City Council member Jeff Holland was found dead Saturday at his home in Houston. Holland, who was an engineer, also worked as the general manager for the Mauriceville Water and Utility...
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Weekend Reports Include Hwy. 87 Accident
A West Orange-Stark High School reunion ended as a smash hit, but not in a good way. Five cars were damaged outside the VFW Hall late Saturday night by a man in a pickup truck who lost control while...
View ArticleReinvestment Zone
The Commissioner Court Tuesday approved a reinvestment zone for a 13-acre tract of land in the extra-territorial jurisdiction of Bridge City. The reinvestment zone is necessary for the county to...
View ArticleBusiness Receives 60K from City
Business owner James Gilliam will be getting a $60,000 city of Orange economic development grant for renovating 707 W. Front Avenue into office spaces. City Council and the city Economic Development...
View ArticleHundreds Seeking Damages
A Beaumont law firm representing 239 people a lawsuit in Orange County seeking damages from the Sabine River Authority of Texas and Louisiana. The suit has been assigned to Judge Dennis Powell’s 163rd...
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Barras Offers Suggestions To City
A lawyer trying to stop the city of Orange from moving city hall out of the historic downtown commissioned an architect to do schematic designs to redo a vacant bank building for the city offices....
View ArticleFees Waived For Flood Damaged Properties
The Orange City Council Tuesday approved ways to help people who had flooded properties in March. The council unanimously agreed to waive building permit and tap fees for people fixing water-damaged...
View ArticleMan Killed By 18-Wheeler
On April 28, 2016 at about 4:45 pm the Orange Police Department responded to the report of an auto-pedestrian accident on the south IH-10 Service Road at the intersection with State Highway 62....
View ArticleSRA Board Member Resigns
A board member for the Sabine River Authority who made an email joke about the March Sabine River flood has submitted her resignation, the Longview News-Journal has reported. Kimberly Johnson Fish of...
View ArticlePolice Looking For Shooter
Orange police are looking for the driver of a tan Honda Accord who fired a gun at a pickup truck outside a convenience Wednesday morning. No one was hurt. Police at 7:40 a.m. went to the Star Stop at...
View ArticleFormer Chief Indicted
Grady Gray, a former chief for the Pinehurst Volunteer Fire Department, was indicted Wednesday on a felony charge of indecency with a child by touching. He was arrested and booked into the Orange...
View ArticlePolice Investigate Shooting
Early Friday morning Orange Police were called to the 100 block of Pine Ave. in downtown Orange. When they arrived they found two people with gunshot wounds. Both were taken to the hospital. The...
View ArticleMan Hit With Stray Bullet
A 59-year-old man sleeping on the couch in his apartment was shot in the arm early Friday by a stray bullet from a shooting outside. A younger man outside was hit by multiple gunshots. Both are in...
View ArticleOrange Releases Info On City Hall
MEDIA PRESS RELEASE Mayor’s Office First Financial Bank/City Hall Project During the past several years, city staff began exploring options to determine how to better serve the citizens and visitors to...
View ArticleFormer WOC Schools/Admin Sold
The West Orange-Cove school board has sold the old administration building, Oates Elementary and the former middle school on Western Avenue in West Orange. All three have been closed and unused. The...
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Man Drowns in Adams Bayou
Around 2:30pm Saturday authorities were alerted that a man had fallen overboard in his boat in Adams Bayou near the Orange Boat Club. Approximately three hours later a dive team found the young man...
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