Kennedy named Baytown superintendent amid long search
Baytown School Board unanimously selected Greenville School District superintendent Bill Kennedy to lead Baytown. The three year contract at 77000 dollars annually starts around February. Kennedy, 45, succeeds Johnny Clark who retires in January after 16 years fronting the Baytown district. Kennedy has over 25 years in education and has led Greenville for four years.
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DeLaney Band to headline Lee College gala in Baytown tribute
The DeLaney Band will perform at the Lee College Foundation gala Monday night in Greenville. The event honors Baytown native Kennedy a former superintendent in Cedar Hill Kingsville Hillsboro and Aldine districts. Kennedy holds degrees from Baylor SFA and Sam Houston and has written on education while serving in multiple Texas districts.
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Around Town Highlights Unsigned Local Notes of Town Figures
JEFF PHILLIPS is congratulated by grandmother Jewell Guest for an amazing feat killing two deer with one bullet. Eric Van Natter, 10, shoots his first buck. Joy Crow gives advance notice. Julie Smith receives a surprise from her students. Lorrie Knight makes her television debut. Wanda Brown returns from a weekend outing to help with an oyster fry. Bobby Rountree camps at the dentist office. Zack Patterson and Kyle Johnson visit Santa. Eileen Hall shines on an assembly.
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Buck Joy Crow
Julie Smith
Lorrie Knight
Wanda Brown
Bobby Rountree
Zack Patterson
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Eileen Hall
Kennedy named Baytown schools chief vows long stay
Bill Kennedy said he plans to settle in Baytown as the new superintendent after Friday's unanimous board vote. He will begin about February 1, succeeds Johnny Clark, and aims to update curricula for the computer age while preserving vocational education and gradual reforms. Kennedy contrasts Greenville and Baytown districts, notes similar blue collar populations, and cites past building programs as context for Baytown's needs.
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Bill Kennedy
Kennedy
Johnny Clark
Greenville
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Barrett Station writer to be honored Sunday in hometown event
Anna Pearl Barrett, a new author and Bellaire High School Spanish head, returns to Barrett Station for a 2 to 5 p.m. party at Riley Chambers Community Center. She will autograph The Middlebatchers Throw a Party for the Marriage of Hettie Wish and Lester Leg, first in a series about five rural 1940s children. The publisher claims this is the first exclusively black children’s series.
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Houston
Riley Chambers
Magnolia
Barrett Station
Harrison Barrett
Wanda Orton
Larksdale Publishing Co
Barrett
Riley Chambers Community Center
Ms. Barrett
Hettie Wish
Lester Leg
Bellaire High School
Goodfellows Drive For Christmas Help In Baytown
Chief Goodfellow asks readers to donate to the Goodfellows campaign and notes Baytown Sun will print donor lists daily. Donations may be mailed to Baytown Sun P O Box 90 or delivered to The Sun building at 1301 Memorial Drive.
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Russell guilty gets 70 years in Texas murder trial
Juror verdict finds Larry Scott Russell guilty of the 1975 murder of 22 year old Baytown woman Florida Rushing DuBose and imposes a 76 year sentence. Judge Routt presided as the case concluded after nearly a decade. DuBose, remarried and living in Austin, expressed relief that the case is finally over.
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Houston
Larry Scott Russell
Baytown
Texas Department of Corrections
Russell
Thomas Routt
Florida
DuBose
Robert Overholt
Routt
Overholt
208Th District Court
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Memorial
P.J. Kuehn
Austin
Weekend Baytown Weather Outlook With Mild Temps
Weekend Baytown area forecast calls for sunny skies and mild temperatures with a slight rain chance. Highs near 70 Saturday and mid 60s Sunday, with a 20 percent thunder shower overnight and temperatures dipping into the mid 40s. A Friday to Saturday period recorded a high of 73 and a low of 42.
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