The Orange Branch NAACP’s Black History Month Parade will start at 11 a.m. Feb. 27 in front of Greater St. Paul Christian Fellowship Church, corner of Link Avenue and North 14th Street.

[Last in a series about the history of the Port of Orange]

As the Port of Orange entered the second decade of the 21st century, Director Gene Bouillion described 2009 as a record year, adding, “We’re set up to have another good year.”

Part 4 of 5.
by Nina Harden

On December 27, 1915, pacts were made with both local unions of the International Longshoremen's Association, and the Gulfport, Mississippi basis and wage scale were adopted for the Port of Orange.

Part 2 of a 2 part story
When in 1899 and 1900 the matter of dredging this channel was again agitated, the question of route was once more a cause of much discussion.

This is part one of a two part story reprint on the Port of Orange, to be followed by a three part story.

Nina Harden
for the record

"The Port of Orange did not just happen. Though endowed with a myriad of natural facilities that can, at best, be set forth but briefly in this article, her addition to the list of deep-sea ports of the Gulf and of the world has a history that ranges back for more than 30 years, when a group of sturdy pioneers headed by Henry J. Lutcher, began the campaign for deep water that has just now been brought to final fruition."

All area Industries closed for the funeral of Mrs. Frances Ann Lutcher in 1924. 

All businesses in Orange were closed as well. 

Deweyville swing bridge nomination also successful

She is an electric powered World War II era swing bridge crossing Cow Bayou on Texas 87. Christened the Cow Bayou Bridge in 1941 dedication ceremonies, she was an engineering marvel of the time. She mothered a community and was a routine part of life for more than three decades in early Bridge City.

It was a Tuesday.

In Orange County, the sun was out. 

Most residents were just getting to work when they heard the World Trade Center and Pentagon had been struck by aircraft.

Former operators recall old times

“Tuxedo” wasn’t just a formal outfit. 

Back then it was the Orange telephone extension.

by Nina Harden

The year that the Orange Port became a deep-water port leading citizens proudly contributed to the publication of the history of the district and the industries that backed it.

by Tim Knight
Harry Choate was the total and complete musician and entertainer. All of this life he ate, drank and slept music. It is sometimes very difficult to unravel the facts and myths surrounding the life and times of the man who wrote what has been called the Cajun national anthem, "Jolie Blon." What Jimmy Rogers was to country music, Harry Choate was to French music.

Corky Harmon was selling newspapers. Pearl Burgess Stanfield was at a service station. Virginia Cox had a brother there at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. 

Yet another upcoming event that didn’t take place last year because of Hurricane Ike is the Heritage  House Museum family celebration Past Times, set for Saturday from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at 905 Division Ave. on the museum grounds.

As part of its 100-year celebration during the first week of October, Lamar State College-Port Arthur will present an Oct. 2 concert of oldies music featuring well-known recording artists The Dixie Cups, Johnny Preston, Troy Shondell and Jivin’ Gene Bourgeois.

The human condition leaves each person in a perpetual quandary – fight or flight it’s called. For one brave group of men, July of 1969 gave the opportunity to experience both.

Gray remembered after 35 years

Capt. Danny Gray got what he wished for, but not what was coming to him.

When he was killed 35 years ago this week, he had just fulfilled a dream.