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Charli XCX

Charli XCX

Live music schedule for April 7-13

April 7-13 Brick & Barley (Orange) Sat., April 9: Layne Allen Band Wed., April 13: Caylan Daughrity   Blue Martini (Golden Nugget) Fri., April 8: The Fuse Sat., April 9: The Fuse   Courville’s Thurs., April 7: Bob Schneider   Dylan’s (Port Arthur) Thurs., April 7: Rusty James Fri.
A child huddled while being bullied

A child huddled while being bullied

Sticks, stones, words and fists: A short list of a bully's arsenal

Never was there a time when she felt like she “belonged.” Living in poverty in Beaumont’s North End, she never owned a pair of Air Jordans, never had “pocket money” for book fairs, never dined on heaping pounds of crawfish or wore clothes that didn’t belong to someone else first.
Albert Nolen

Albert Nolen

Out & About with Albert April 7-13

Last Wednesday evening after a spring shower cooled our fair city, the sun shined bright at the downtown Event Centre for the arrival of Neches River Festival LXXIV King’s arrival.
Willie Ray Smith

Willie Ray Smith

Finalists announced for Willie Ray Smith Awards

Finalists for the 30th annual Willie Ray Smith Awards were announced April 4 at the MCM Eleganté in Beaumont. Dubbed the “Heisman Trophy of High School Football in Southeast Texas,” the finalists included four offensive and four defensive players.
King Neches LXXIV Mark Andrew Fertitta

King Neches LXXIV Mark Andrew Fertitta

Neches River Festival street party

Neches River Festival organizers invite the community to celebrate the 74th iteration of the annual event with a Street Party on Crockett Street from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 8.
Amy Champagne

Amy Champagne

Nederland ISD honors Reaud Awards winners

Amy Champagne, a 4th grade teacher at Highland Park Elementary; Shirley DeLaCruz, a 9th grade teacher at Nederland High School; and Bill Williamson, an 8th Grade teacher at CO Wilson Middle School have been selected to receive the 2022 Reaud Excellence in Education Award from the Beaumont...
Kent Houp served as a radioman and gunner during the Vietnam War. Pictured large are Chief Clarence Lamb, boat captain, of Orange; PO2 Dixie Peterman, engine man, of Arlington; Rex McKenzie, gunners mate 20mm gunner, from Lampasses; PO3 Kent Houp, radioman and 50 cal machine gunner; PO2 John Brown, Coxswain from Austin.

Kent Houp served as a radioman and gunner during the Vietnam War. Pictured large are Chief Clarence Lamb, boat captain, of Orange; PO2 Dixie Peterman, engine man, of Arlington; Rex McKenzie, gunners mate 20mm gunner, from Lampasses; PO3 Kent Houp, radioman and 50 cal machine gunner; PO2 John Brown, Coxswain from Austin.

Vietnam veterans receive warm welcome

Various Vietnam veterans told The Examiner appreciation for their military service has evolved dramatically since they first came home to, at worst, violent protestors, and small welcomings of family members at best. More than four decades after 58,000 U.S.
Shipp

Shipp

Second murder suspect arrested

Found and arrested March 31 in a town approximately 260 miles away from the Jefferson County homicide scene, a 24-year-old Winnie woman was arrested for murder in connection to the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl days before. According to the announcement, at about 3:40 a.m.