🌱 What a new Navy landing craft deal could mean for Orange jobs

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• What a new Navy landing craft deal could mean for Orange jobs

Also on today's calendar: Dean Granger Memorial 5K and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a one-legged Big Foot? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 92 and low of 76 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Wednesday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 90, low: 77.
• Thursday: A thunderstorm or two, with a high of 88 and low of 74 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• The Navy adds three shipyards to build its LCU 1700 landing craft, with $280.5 million in initial agreements (newsbreak.com) — A major Navy contract will bring prototype work on new LCU 1700 landing craft to Conrad Shipyard in Orange alongside yards in Alabama and Brownsville. The deal, worth over $280 million across builders, could mean sustained industrial activity and skilled jobs in Orange as deliveries ramp up between 2028 and 2029.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Orange

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Wednesday September 30
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Wednesday October 7
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  10:15 am
Friday October 9
• Livingston at Little Cypress-Mauriceville →
  7327 Highway 87 N, Orange
  7:30 pm
Saturday October 10
• The Magic of Kevin Spence - A Sensory-Inclusive Performance
  Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts, 707 Main Ave, Orange
  11:00 am
Tuesday October 13
• City Council Meeting →
  220 5th Street, Orange
  9:00 am
Wednesday October 14
• Stoytime →
  220 N 5th Street, Orange
  10:15 am
Thursday October 22
• Witchy Tea & Trivia Night →
  The Little Texas Teahouse, 308 Border Street, Orange
  6:00 pm
Wednesday October 28
• Stoytime →
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  10:15 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday October 3
• Dean Granger Memorial 5K →
  Orange Riverside Pavilion, 708 Simmons Drive, Pinehurst
  7:00 am
Friday October 9
• West Orange-Stark Girls Varsity Volleyball @ LCMHS →
  Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School, 7327 TX-87, Orange
  4:30 pm
• Orange County Bbq cookoff
  Mauriceville Community center
  5:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Chick-fil-A posted a job opening for Year-round Daytime Front of House Team Member in Orange. Apply here.
• Family Dollar posted a job opening for Assistant Manager II in Orange. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Orange here.

🗞 Nearby News

Bridge City

• Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay Levee-Floodwall System Project Review Available (orangeleader.com)
• Deweyville High School faces Evadale in the week 6 Band of the Week contest (12newsnow.com)

Vidor

• Cecil Ray Johnson (kogt.com)
• Funeral expense fundraiser for man engaged to be married who died in UTV crash (kfdm.com)
• Alvin 'Hooty' Boyd Nelson (kogt.com)

Port Neches

• TJ Class of 1971 Committee Members Planning 55th Reunion (panews.com)

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