News

Willie Ray Smith

Finalists announced for Willie Ray Smith Awards

Chad Cooper

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

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

Neches River Festival street party

Scott McLendon

Monday, April 4, 2022

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

Nederland ISD honors Reaud Awards winners

News Staff

Friday, April 1, 2022

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.

Vietnam veterans receive warm welcome

Scott McLendon

Thursday, March 31, 2022

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

Second murder suspect arrested

News Staff

Thursday, March 31, 2022

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.

Bob Schneider

Live music schedule for March 31-April 6

Chad Cooper

Thursday, March 31, 2022

March 31-April 6 Brick & Barley (Orange) Sat., April 2: Brad Brinkley Band Wed., April 6: JP Primeaux Blue Martini (Golden Nugget) Fri., April 1: The Vermillionaires Sat., April 2: The Vermillionaires Sun., April 3: Jarvis & The Gents Courville’s Thurs.

Hands with a laptop computer

Social Security information online

News Staff

Thursday, March 31, 2022

I’m sure lots of my readers are always looking for Social Security information online. So am I. Even though I’ve got 50 years’ worth of Social Security knowledge stacked up in my brain, it sometimes gets a little muddled and I need to check something out or verify what I think I know.

Jacorry Jamard Green

GPS monitoring proves costly in price and life

Scott McLendon

Thursday, March 31, 2022

GPS ankle monitors are allegedly intended to provide a community-safe alternative to incarceration and deter further criminal behavior. However national studies suggest this penal practice is a costly, ineffective way to accomplish the former.

Attendees at Women in Industry Week

Women in Industry Week

News Staff

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Female students with an interest in entering an industry-based field had the opportunity to visit area leaders during the SETX Women in Industry Week the week of March 21.

Mark Andrew Fertitta was unmasked March 30 as King Neches LXXIV at the Event Centre in downtown Beaumont.

Hear ye, hear ye

News Staff

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Mark Andrew Fertitta was unmasked March 30 as King Neches LXXIV at the Event Centre in downtown Beaumont.

Subscribe to