Endorsement for Lee College Board Candidate Daryl Fontenot
A letter praising Daryl Fontenot for Lee College Board of Regents, noting his Rotary leadership, service above self, and long-standing community education involvement with Goose Creek CISD Education Foundation and the Citizens Bond Advisory Committee, highlighting his commitment, thoughtfulness, and teamwork.
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Lee College Board of Regents
Daryl
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Citizens Bond
Board of Regent
Lee College Regent Candidates Named by Supporters
Mark Himsel Mark Hall and Weston Cotten are commended for filing to run for the Lee College Board of Regents. The note highlights fiscal responsibility tenure and leadership in education with Cotten noting two decades on a school board guiding a district recovery. The trio is praised as the best choices for regent positions.
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Lee College Board of Regents
Mark Himsel
Mark Hall
Weston Cotten
Himsel
Hall
Cotten
Lee College
Endorsement for Dan Mendoza to Lee College Board of Regents
A longtime Lee College educator Dan Mendoza is endorsed for the Board of Regents. The letter highlights his five decades at Lee College, work as a speech and English teacher, forensics coach, and leadership in Texas higher education circles. It praises his advocacy for students and impact on transfer scholarships.
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Dan Mendoza
Lee College Board of Regents
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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
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Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Gina Rivon for Regent Advocate and Mentor
Jacob Shafer urges Baytown voters to support Gina Rivon for the Board of Regents. He highlights her youth guidance, empathetic leadership, and fiscal stewardship as head of the Utility Billing Department, arguing she will prioritize tuition, books, and curriculum needs.
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Gina Rivon
Ms. Riven
Jacob Shafer Baytown
San Jacinto pop quiz tests postwar history facts
Wanda Orton shares a dozen historical questions about the San Jacinto battle era. Answers cover battle date, battle cry origins, Peggy Lake naming, officers buried near Zavala, Morgan's Point camp, Houston's misnamed dispatch, Santa Anna's interpreter, Texan interpreters, Cos as brother-in-law, paper security at Lynchburg, Paul Revere figure, and spying sites near Lynchburg.
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Sidney Sherman
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Harvey Whiting
Gilbert Brooks
Burnet
Goose Creek
Mike McCormick
Peggy McCormick
Burnets
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Almonte
Tory Hill
Ferry Landing
Longtime friends visit Baytown in a two part tale
Retired editor Jim Finley recalls reuniting with Roy Acuff and Mike Adams after 46 years. The pair travelled from San Antonio for a lunch and Baytown tour, sparking plans for a two part series about the enduring bond, sports roots, and their lives since Baylor and Stroman High.
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Baytown
San Antonio
NBC News
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Mike Adams
Hewitt
Roy
San Antonio Missions
Bay City
Wait
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Victoria
al “Albert” Gore
Going’s
Garth Road
Victoria Advocate
Stroman High
Baylor
Bears
Fred Hartman
Stroman
Ship Channel
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Vicki
Abilene Christian
Wildcats
Booth Dies After Capture Near Port Royal Virginia
On this date in 1865 federal troops trapped John Wilkes Booth near Port Royal Virginia and killed the Lincoln assassin after a confrontation.
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Abraham Lincoln
Port Royal
Virginia
Chernobyl accident marks 1986 historic nuclear disaster
Today in history notes the 1986 Chernobyl reactor catastrophe in Ukraine and the 1989 death of Lucille Ball at Cedars-Sinai, aged 77. The Thought for Today quotes Carlos Fuentes on order and horror.
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Ukraine
Lucille
Ball
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles
Carlos Fuentes
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