A 40-year-old pickup truck driver was taken by ambulance to Baptist Hospital Orange emergency room after an SUV hit the driver's side on FM 105 Saturday morning. Orange Police Officer C.J. Foreman reported that 40-year-old Leah Aven Carpenter was traveling westbound in the 7600 block of FM 105 at Beadle Road. A Ford Expedition was traveling behind Carpenter's pickup and tried to pass as the pickup turned left onto Beadle. Three passengers in the pickup truck were not injured. Officer Foreman issued a citation to the driver of the SUV, 35-year-old Rebecca Ann Best, for passing in a no passing … [Read more...] about OPD Works Weekend Accidents

County EDC A week after voting to cut funding to the Orange County Economic Development Corporation (EDC), County Judge Brint Carlton declared it is not dead. At Commissioners Court Monday Judge Carlton said the county is looking into alternative ways to bring economic development to the county. Carlton stated the county is working to come up with an alternative which includes still using the EDC perhaps in a restructured format since it is funded through the end of the fiscal year until October 1. Some options Judge Carlton mentioned were either getting a new executive director, looking at … [Read more...] about Carlton Talks EDC, Hospital Study

Radio Tower grant                                                                        August 3, 2015 Orange County will receive a grant from the Department of Homeland Security to build a radio tower which should help fill a gap in radio coverage for emergency responders. County Judge Brint Carlton gives credit to the county’s new Emergency Management Director Ryan Peabody for the county receiving the grant. The $1.4 million dollar grant will be used to build a 450-foot tower near the Vidor Police Department. Signals from the tower will extend to Pine Forest, to Bridge City, and to … [Read more...] about Tower Grant, Bridge Fee

46-year-old Shannon Lewandowski of Orange was seriously injured Monday morning about 9 in a head-on crash on FM 1006 by the DuPont plant entrance. The Texas Department of Public Safety reports she had to be extricated and was then taken by medical helicopter to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont. Trooper Stephanie Davis said that on Monday afternoon Lewandowski was undergoing surgery. Trooper Davis said Lewandowski was traveling northbound in a Ford pickup truck and for some reason crossed the dividing line and hit a Chevrolet pickup truck traveling in the opposite direction. The driver … [Read more...] about UPDATE: Morning Accident on Chem Row

As the United States was pushing a space program to get to the moon, a lesser known project was pursued to study the core of the ocean floor. The information gathered by the Ocean Drilling Project proved the tectonic plate and continental drift theories of geology. The core samples gathered in the exploration are still being used today. And the worldwide science community wouldn't have the information without the blue collar workers in Orange. Levingston Shipbuilding Company construction the legendary Glomar Challenger. Pieces of the vessel are now in the collection of the Smithsonian … [Read more...] about Orange Built Glomar Challenger

A man lost control of his motorcycle Saturday afternoon around 5pm as he was turning from Sunset to 16th St. in Orange and laid it down.  Fortunately he was not struck by another car.  Although he was standing on his own when Acadian ambulance arrived, he was transported to the hospital for observation. … [Read more...] about Motorcycle Wreck