Severe weather hits Baytown and Texas coast
A Friday storm pack swept across Texas with hail and tornado watches. NWS meteorologist Debra Helvy warned of continued severe weather through the weekend as an upper level low near New Mexico interacts with moist air. Hail ranged to quarter size in Baytown, with pea sized hail elsewhere.
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Mother Nature
Baytown
Houston
la Porte
National Weather Services
Debra Helvy
NWS
Torna
Helvy
Helry
New Mexico
Henry
Baytown zoning panels approve Gulf Acres plats
Baytown Planning and Zoning Commission and ULDC Task Force met to discuss current and future zoning issues. The commission approved a final and preliminary plat for Gulf Acres a 19 acre ETJ site near I 10 and FM 2100 and granted a landscape variance for an industrial parcel. It also discussed downtown plant implementation nonconforming uses and the future land use map.
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City of
Baytown
Planning and Zoning Commission
Unified Land Development Code
ULDC
Kelly Carpenter
Carpenter
Gulf Acres
Mount Olive Church hosts encore fundraiser play tonight
Mount Olive Baptist Church presents another performance of Do You See Yourself at Tucker Hall on the Lee College Campus. The 6 pm show aims to raise funds for church repairs after Hurricane Ike. Tickets start at 10 dollars from 5 30 pm. free for children 12 and under. Deacon Edna George notes about 23000 dollars raised, 10000 short of the goal. SEE PLAY PAGE 3A.
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Mount Olive Church
Mount Olive Baptist Church
Sonia Barrett
Tucker Hall
Lee College
Edna George
Provisions in bill aid BHILD Lee College in budget measure
The Texas House sent a supplemental budget containing a $30 million disaster aid fund for Hurricane Ike damaged districts including Barbers Hill ISD and other Robin Hood areas. Lee College would receive 2.2 million to restore health insurance benefits and 137,554 to cover fire damages as lawmakers push a broader two year budget with a 5 percent spending increase to about 178 billion.
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Texas House
Senate
Barbers Hill Isd
Barbers Hill
Galveston Isd
Craig Eiland
Dalveston
Chambers County
Eiland
Rick Perry
Lee College
Wayne Smith
Baytown
House
Hula Lessons At Library Week Event
Monika Elizondo Regina Aguilar Zuri St Ang and Malanie Edwards join a short hula lesson taught by Pilikika Moe of The Pride of the Pacific as part of National Library Week activities in the library.
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Monika Elizondo
Regina Aguilar
Zuri St. Ang
Malanie Edwards
Pilikika Moe
Moe
Pride of the Pacific
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