Pinehurst Sales Tax On The Rise
The City Council in Pinehurst approved a rerate agreement with the Texas Municipal League (TML) Tuesday evening. Liz McKee with TK Health Insurance gave a presentation about insurance coverage for...
View ArticleLightning Strikes Tree
On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 4 PM lightning struck a tree in the 4100 block of Swallow Street in Pinehurst. The Pinehurst Volunteer Fire Department quickly responded and extinguished the tree, which...
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Accident Slows Traffic On Rainbow Bridge
At approximately 2:15p.m. Wednesday, the Texas Department of Public Safety received a report of a motor vehicle crash on the Rainbow Bridge in Orange County. Initial reports indicate that a Kia Sedona...
View ArticleChristopher Confesses To Robberies
On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Orange Police Department stopped a silver Kia that was a suspect vehicle in recent armed robberies. The driver was identified as 29 year old Jerome Christopher...
View ArticleCounty and Union Talk
There have not been any collective bargaining talks for over a month between Orange County and the Sheriff’s Office Employees Association. The two parties have been meeting though in closed sessions...
View ArticleSales Tax Receipts
The Texas Comptroller’s office sent cities and counties their sales tax allocations for the month of June this week. Orange County and several local cities also showed an increase in sales tax...
View ArticlePinehurst Addressing Flooding
Over six inches of rain fell in a very short period of time two weeks ago in Orange County. The heavy downpours caused street flooding in areas that had not seen high water in many years. Pinehurst...
View ArticleLeak Repaired at Claiborne Park
A month-long project to prevent an environmental disaster came to a successful conclusion on Thursday. County workers from multiple departments responded quickly and effectively to prevent a...
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MacArthur Shopping Center Once Thrived, Now Coming Down
Parking for 1,500 cars wasn’t enough. Cars parked along both sides of MacArthur back in 1960 when Orange’s first shopping center opened. The $2.5 million project ($21.1 million in 2017) drew everyone’s...
View ArticleAccident Sends One To Be Treated
An 83 year old Orange woman was sent to the hospital Thursday night after an accident at the intersection of Bob Hall Rd. and the east bound feeder road. Just before 11pm, the woman, driving a maroon...
View ArticleOrange Police Reports
– Friday a two car accident occurred at the intersection of Hwy. 62 and FM 105. Wesley McClelland, 26, of Orange, was trying to turn onto 105 from 62 in his GMC pickup when he failed to yield the...
View ArticleNewton Co. Sheriffs Report
NEWTON COUNTY SHERIFFS REPORT JULY 17,2017 Reported by Sheriff Billy Rowles – HOPE EVERYONE HAD A GREAT WEEK WE HAVE BEEN BOWED UP AROUND HERE.LETS SEE WHATS BEEN GOING ON IN THE COUNTY. TUESDAY DEPUTY...
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Man Loses Life Sunday Afternoon
Newton Co. Sheriff Billy Rowles says a 40 year old Orange man died Sunday afternoon after an outing at Backwoods Beach near Trout Creek in Newton County. Thomas Arby Butler was pronounced dead at the...
View ArticlePinehurst Starts With 35th Street
The City of Pinehurst began working Monday to alleviate drainage problems in the city which caused severe street flooding on June 29 when the area was inundated with over six inches of rain. City...
View ArticleWellness Option Approved At CC
The recommendation of the Orange County Health and Retiree Insurance Committee was approved Tuesday by the Commissioners Court of the wellness program for county employees. The committee was...
View ArticlePhelan Calls For Election Of Appraisal Board.
State Representative Dade Phelan re-filed House Bill 495 from the 85th Regular Session, that would call for the election of a County’s Appraisal District Board of Directors. Currently, a District’s...
View ArticleSanchez Sentenced To 45 Years
A man will serve 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder for strangling and beating the mother of his two children. 41-year-old Jorge Elizalde Sanchez pleaded guilty Friday before 260th...
View ArticleCollins Pleads Guilty
Travis O’Brian Collins has pleaded guilty to two counts of intoxication manslaughter and will let a jury next week decide his punishment. Collins was driving a pickup truck that was speeding on Park...
View ArticleDixon New Municipal Judge in BC
Retired longtime Bridge City school teacher Bill Dixon was appointed as the Municipal Judge of Bridge City by the City Council Tuesday night. Dixon taught 33 years in the Bridge City school district,...
View ArticleShangriLa, Museum Now Admission Free
Beginning Wednesday, July 19, 2017, all visitors will be admitted to Stark Museum of Art and Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center free of charge. Since 1961, the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher...
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