Back to school quiz on Goose Creek Baytown educators
The Baytown Sun review lists ten questions about local educators. It names W. D. Hinson as Horace Mann principal and REL pioneer Leo LaBorde, W.F. Muller’s vocational impact, Walter Rundell’s Lee College deanship, J. C. Burkett as Forque’s mentor, Mattyebelle Durkee’s choirs, Erma Harden and Louise Harden as Baytown elementary teachers, Mattyebelle Durkee’s Baytown tenure, Mildred Smith as Cedar Bayou educator, and Dr. Antonio Banuelos who organized La Tipica and a boys band. Wanda Orton, retired Sun editor, contributes.
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Bill
Horace Mann
Goose Creek
Lee College
Walter Rundell
REL
Charles Forque
John M. Stuart
Carver High School
Mildred
Smith
Original
de Zavala School
Bill Hinson
W.D. Hinson
George H. Gentry
Baytown Jaycees
Jaycees
Robert E. Lee High School
W.F. Muller
Baytown
Humble Oil & Refining Co
Muller
Charles Bonner
Lynn O’hagan
SC. 4
Leo LaBorde
J.C
Jake” Burkett
Forque
Sam Houston State College
Burkett
G. Stuart
Baytown Junior High
Erma Harden
San Jacinto
Louise
A.N. Foster
Mattyebelle Durkee
Carver
Joe Arrington
Joe Tex
Durkee
Cedar Bayou
Antonio Banuelos
Houston Symphony
la Tipica
Banuelos
Smartest president ever, climate change and Obama
A reader questions Barack Obama’s stance on climate change, arguing he proves the hoax by purchasing waterfront property on Martha’s Vineyard. The letter mocks his intelligence and asserts wealth contradicts belief in rising sea levels.
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Pickering
Barack Hussein Obama
Obama
United States
Hussein Obama
Martha’s Vineyard
Poles
End of Women and Children First Era Says Baytown Writer
Bert Marshall argues that the centuries old rule prioritizing women and children in danger should end. He claims modern society values men equally and mocks chivalry as obsolete.
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Women’s Liberation Movement
Bert Marshall Baytown
Top baytownsun reads August 2026 week list
The Baytown Sun presents the week’s top ten most read articles including pieces on local life, crime, business and community events such as To live in Baytown was to go to the Brunson, The Brunson is back, baby, Scam artists working overtime across town and Old theater starts new life. The year’s top reads also feature a police beat round up and a deputy charged with hindering arrest while standout yearly hits include a police involved shooting and a murder verdict.
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Baytownsun.com
Baytown
JSW Steel
REL Grads
McDowell
Today in History: Martin Luther King Jr I Have a Dream speech
On this date in 1963, over 200000 people heard Rev. Martin Luther King Jr deliver his I Have a Dream speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. In 2017, floodwaters rose to rooflines of single story homes as Hurricane Harvey drenched Houston for a fourth day, prompting mass rescues. Thought for Today attributes indifference as a core theme from Elie Wiesel.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Lincoln Memorial
Washington, D.C
Houston
Elie Wiesel
Town of Louisville 1838 1847 Baytown history
Louisville was a short lived Texas town founded in 1838 by the Scott brothers near Point Pleasant on the San Jacinto. It featured a wharf, shipyard, dry dock, and a voting place from 1840 to 1843, but two successive hurricanes and limited growth led to its decline and eventual renaming as Scott's Place. The site later became Hagerman’s Landing and the Exxon Mobil dock area, with Midway Landing serving as a key steam ship stop through the 19th century.
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Buffalo Bayou
Louisville
William Scott
George
William H
Scott
Point Pleasant
Fred Hartman
Bayway Drive
Exxon- Mobil
David Drysdale
A. L. Crossman
William H Scott
M. D. Rose
David Russell
George Taylor
John Taylor
Walter G. Dyer
J. J. Dyer
Alexander Thompson
Doswell & Adams
Houston
Company Beat 7
Cedar Bayou
San Jacinto River
William Turner
Russell
Harris County
San Jacinto Bay
Telegraph and
Texas Register
Black Duck Bay
Lynchburg
New Washington
San Jacinto
N.B
Doswell & Adame
Geo. W
WM. H. Scott
Dyer
James Hanson
Simon Hagerman
Cromwell Anson Jones
U.S
Midway Landing
Baytown
Hagerman’s Landing
Exxon Mobil
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