community

Preservationist: KCS Engine 503 ‘condemned’ to rot at park

By Ken Stickney ken.stickney@panews.com A plan to use $67,629 in donated funds — money dedicated to restoring Kansas…

community

Catholic Exension: ‘We are with you’

By Ken Stickney ken.stickney@panews.com The Rev. Jack Wall’s first check to the Diocese of Beaumont, deposited into the…

community

Ken Stickney: Back to school — this time, to say thanks

Audrey Ervin Jones’ erstwhile quest to honor teachers at Abraham Lincoln High’s Class of ’78 reunion might have…

community

Catholic Extension to help Catholics to rebuild

Special to The News Tropical Storm Harvey hit Southeast Texas hard — and Chicago-based Catholic Extension is coming…

Opinion

Save, save, save; give, give, give

Ed Hogenson’s generosity was felt this week at Lamar University, where he donated $500,000 to the geology department…

community

Teachers extolled: Lincoln High ’78 will honor them at reunion

By Ken Stickney ken.stickney@panews.com Audry Ervin Jones remembers these things from her alma mater, Abraham Lincoln High in…

BREAKING NEWS

Children perish in early morning fire

  Three children died in an early Wednesday morning apartment fire in Port Arthur. Perhaps a dozen families…

community

Rainfall since midnight: 3.04 inches; more possible

Staff report A flash flood warning at 6:55 a.m. Wednesday included Orange and Jefferson Counties, but was lifted…

Beaumont

Summer, art and fun at Art Museum of SETX

By Lorenzo Salinas l.v.salinas@panews.com   Art is life and life is filled with all kinds of artistic opportunities.…

Local

Roadway would have linked Port Arthurs

By Ken Stickney ken.stickney@panews.com Beverly Soloway found a road that was never built from a town that’s vanished.…