Looking Back 7/29/1992

Twenty-two year old Marc Mauboules, Vidor resident, shows-off a blowup copy of the lottery ticket where he won $20,000 while holding up play money representation of the sum.

DPS graduates six K-9 Teams from new program

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) graduated six new K-9 teams earlier this month, as the inaugural class for the Texas Highway Patrol Canine Tracking Operations Program. These teams will be strategically located in the border regions to track individuals who may otherwise not be found.

Summer Reading Storybook Theatre

Storybook Theatre entertained the Vidor Public Library Summer Reading audience on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. The guests acted out their version of “The Three Little Pigs” with Two Pigs and T.H.E. Wolf, showing the group not to judge a book by its cover.

DPS Increases Enforcement to Keep Roads Safe on July Fourth

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Texas Highway Patrol (THP) will be initiating two traffic safety campaigns during the holiday weekend looking for people violating traffic laws from Friday, July 1, through Monday, July 4.

The Vidor Public Library

The Vidor Public Library hosted Tamara Grantham’s book signing on Thursday, June 23, 2022. She is the author of more than a dozen books and novellas, including the multi-award-winning Olive Kennedy: Fairy World MD series, and the #1 bestselling Twisted Ever After trilogy.

The Vidor Public Library

The Vidor Public Library welcomed storyteller Dru Woods to the Summer Reading program on Wednesday, June 22, 2022.She entertained the group with puppets, songs, and stories.

Joe Jonas Lassos Litter as the new face of Don’t Mess With Texas®

It’s said that everything is bigger in Texas and in the hilarious new PSAs for Don’t mess with Texas, singer, songwriter and actor Joe Jonas finds lassoing litter may be his biggest challenge yet.

Orange County Community Sponsors Free July 4th Celebration

The July 4th Celebration is hosted by the Orange County Republican Party (OCRP) and is co-sponsored by various local businesses and officials. The Celebration will feature an indoor concert by the Lone Star Winds and guest speakers Dr. Rick Scarborough and Congressman Randy Weber.

Crabby little robot

Some engineers might build things that are bigger but these engineers created a robot measuring half a millimeter wide -- less than half the width of a grain of sand, according to the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC]. It’s got to be the world’s smallest automaton.

Baby jumpers

Each year in June moms in the Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia assemble in the town square and carefully place their newborn babies on strategically placed mattresses for the annual baby jumping festival known as El Salto del Colacho.