Largest draft call in four years issued by draft board

10 Years ago August 26, 2010: Vidor ISD’s proposed budget deficit jumped higher after what was explained by the superintendent “as both a miscommunication and a desire to be totally up front and transparent with the budget.

Looking Back 08/26/2010

Vidorian Archive Photo One of the 16 Tour of Duty Run members passing through Vidor along Interstate 10 Wednesday morning. The Orange County Emergency Services District #1 and local law enforcement escorted through Vidor.

School year brings an Apple for students, too

Students across Texas returned to campuses last week as schools and universities scrambled to put into place new lesson plans that best accommodate a pandemic.

Ribbon cutting held for new Gibson’s Discount Center

10 Years ago August 19, 2010: Emily Thomas Green and Jack Fugate, both Class of 1937, were presented trophies as the oldest alumni in attendance at the all-years, multi-class reunion for Vidor High School held August 14, at the Vidor VFW Hall.

Texas tries nation’s first virtual criminal trial

A Texan’s speeding ticket put her in the legal history books last week. To combat the backlog in criminal cases created by the pandemic, a Travis County justice of the peace conducted the nation’s first virtual criminal trial.

Austin regrets ever meeting Soldier of Fortune

As the two men parted on Aug. 25, 1822, Stephen F. Austin asked General Arthur G. Wavell to act on his behalf while in England. The polite and symbolic request was the young empressario’s way of thanking the Scotsman for his help and hospitality.

City considers abolishing water district to create own department

10 Years ago August 12, 2010: The Orange County Mosquito Control District’s mosquito spray aircraft will be flying again soon. The repairs have been completed to the damage it received during an aborted take-off on June 8th.

Instead of No. 2 pencils, PPEs top this year's back-to-school list

Back-to-school lists aren’t the same this year. Gov. Greg Abbott talked last week about why the state is stockpiling personal protective equipment.

Nothing could keep Angelina down

Angelina Eberly, who took everything frontier life threw at her and kept coming back for more, died of natural causes at the Gulf Coast port of Indianola on Aug. 15, 1860. On her twentieth birthday in 1818, Angelina Belle Peyton married her first cousin Jonathan Peyton.

My five cents…

The history of East Texas is rich with stories of Texans fighting for our states independence. In July of 1832, an order was given requiring Texans to surrender their weapons to the Mexican army. In response, a band of settlers in Nacogdoches attacked the town's Mexican garrison.