It took only a year for the Special Angels Rodeo to spread across the area. On Saturday, hundreds of people attended the second annual event to let special needs adults and children experience rodeo-style events. Groups and individuals with their families attended the rodeo at the T2 Arena on Old Peveto Road. Dozens of volunteers helped and other members of the community came out to enjoy the fun. Activities included roping, mock-bull riding, and stick horse racing. Food was free for the special needs friends. The Harris family, which owns Farmers Mercantile in Orange, started the event at the … [Read more...] about Special Rodeo Held Saturday

For 78 years the living legend Huey Buxton has been playing music and entertaining people. Buxton was a guest Wednesday during the Britt Godwin show on KOGT, and talked about how his music career started. Buxton remembered how his sister got a mandolin one Christmas because his dad could not afford a piano. She taught Huey a three-chord song “Little Brown Jug” and that’s how his playing music started. Buxton may have started playing music on the mandolin, but he is famous for being a fiddler which he attributes to his dad who also played the fiddle. Buxton related how his family was … [Read more...] about Buxton Still Entertaining

The rousing piano sounds of the Boogie Woogie Train Blues filled the Orange County Expo Center Thursday night. But the non-profit group Friends of the Orange Depot wasn't feeling the blues. More than 300 people attended the second annual gala to raise money to restore the century old Southern Pacific Depot in downtown Orange. Ezra Charles of Houston, an expert in the boogie woogie style, entertained on the baby grand and gave short history lessons in boogie woogie, which evolved in East Texas. The non-profit group hoped to raise more than $50,000. A final figure is not available because the … [Read more...] about Gala For Depot