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Quakes prompt officials to limit disposal wells

The Texas Railroad Commission has suspended nearly two dozen permits that allow oil and gas companies to inject saltwater into the ground, which regulators say has contributed to increased earthquakes of greater magnitude in West Texas.

Firefighters celebrate 50 years of service in 2004

January 17, 2019: After a Vidor police officer’s license plate reader alerted on a vehicle reported stolen in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, a three-county pursuit ensued at speeds of more than 100 mph before the vehicle was stopped in Lumberton and two suspects arrested.

Vidor’s Past

5 YEARS AGO Orange County Commissioners Court granted tax abatements on Orange County ad valorem taxes to nineteen Vidor homeowners who have qualified for Vidor City tax abatements under the Vidor “Pride and Progress” program.

Voter registration deadline for primary approaches

The deadline to register to vote in the Texas Democratic and Republican primary elections is Feb. 5. Voters on March 5 will choose their nominees for president, U.S. Senator, all 38 U.S.

VIDOR’S PAST

County employees raise funds to fight tax rollback

5 Years Ago January 3, 2019 A man armed with a gun was arrested in Seguin, TX on Sunday, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, confessed to a Seguin Police investigator “he was on his way to a church to fulfill a prophecy” and then mentioned the First Baptist Church of Vidor.

Spate of new laws effective Jan. 1

After the Texas Legislature spent much of 2023 in session, a bevy of new laws go into effect on New Year’s Day, though some have been delayed by lawsuits challenging their constitutionality.

“Old Yeller” Author Couldn’t Handle Success

At the peak of the “Old Yeller” craze, the Palace Theater in Dallas invited dogs and their human companions to a special showing of the big screen version of the best-selling book on Jan. 11, 1958. Frederick Benjamin Gipson was born on a farm near Mason in 1908.

State leads nation in population increases in last year

The ink was barely dry on a law signed by Gov. Greg Abbott that makes unauthorized entry into the United States a state crime before a lawsuit was filed by civil rights groups and El Paso County challenging its constitutionality.