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🌱 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

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

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  • 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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🗞 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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