Blue Arrow Café memory stirs Baytown readers
Baytown readers recall the Blue Arrow Café and nearby eateries in a reminiscing column. Several locals recount meals and places from Baytown’s past, noting the 1968 fire that ended the Blue Arrow and Perry Simmons later roles in public service.
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Blue Arrow
Old Baytown
Rettig
Norman Ponder
Perry Simmons
Norman
Baytown Historical Café
Katribe Clothing
Baytown
Floyd Macon
Rettig’s
Charles Seligman
Vera Martinez
Dave
Dana Seamans
Wimpy
Harold Lynn Scarborough
Scarborough Pharmacy
Perry
Dolph Briscoe
The
Texas Committee On Aging
Harris County
Jon Lindsay
Top ten Baytown Sun most read for week ending April 4
The Baytown Sun lists its top ten articles by page views for March 29 to April 4 including Highlands man kills wife and then self and other incidents. Notable items include a motorcycle collision, graduation move to Beaumont, ExxonMobil plant manager arrival, Chambers County most wanted, and a penny swap vote at Goose Creek CISD.
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Baytownsun.com
HCSO
Highlands
Beaumont
Baytown
Frontier
ExxonMobil Chemical
Chambers County
Goose Creek Cisd
Good Samaritan
RSS
Mark Fleming
Mary Lou Bruner Surfaces in Texas Board Runoff Scene
The Dallas Morning News notes Mary Lou Bruner, a fringe Texas educator, in the May 24 runoff to replace Thomas Ratliff on the State Board of Education. Bruner, 69, has posted extremist, conspiracy-tinged views online, including denial of global warming and claims about Obama, yet GOP leaders largely avoid repudiation as she seeks a board seat overseeing curriculum for over 5 million students.
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Thomas Ratliff
Texas
Mary Lou Bruner
Obama
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Ratliff
Democratic Party
Jfk
United Nations
America
Resolve to Read and Boost Texas Literacy in 2016
State leaders urge aReading initiative to cut illiteracy and dropouts. Texas fourth graders lag national peers with only 31 percent reading proficiently in 2015, while programs like BOOK IT! and RIF expand access to reading resources across schools and libraries. State Sen. Larry Taylor and State Rep. Jimmie Aycock chair education committees.
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United Ways of Texas
Texas
RIF
Read
Austin
BookSpring
Pizza Hut
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American Library Association
U.S
Larry Taylor
Friendswood
Senate Committee On Education
Jimmie Don Aycock
Killeen
House Committee On Public Education
Today in History highlights key events across years
On this date notable moments include 1830 church organization by Joseph Smith in Fayette New York, 1909 Peary and Henson reaching the North Pole, 1917 Congress declaring war on Germany, 1945 Yamato mission near Okinawa, 1965 the Early Bird satellite launch, and 1980 3M Post it Notes debut. The piece also recalls Moussoui trial remarks from a decade ago and includes a Thought for Today attributed to Isaac Asimov.
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Matthew A. Henson
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U.S
Okinawa
United States
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