Baytown honors Calvin Evans and calls for a civic flag
An editorial remembers longtime Baytown resident Calvin Evans as a selfless civic worker and contributor to local groups. It urges the city to revisit his Civic Pride flag design as a starting point for a new Baytown flag to unite the community and honor his memory.
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Baytown
Calvin Evans
Evans
City of
Goose Creek
Pelly
Cedar Bayou
Fred Hartman
Houston
Texas
Flower Mound
Lubbock
Pearland
PayProblems Plague National Guard Soldiers
The General Accounting Office released findings showing 450 of 481 Amy National Guard soldiers in Iraq faced pay or benefits problems. Incidents include housing allowance delays, a four day pay-misups trip, and 34 soldiers wrongly told they owed about $48,000 each.
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General Accounting Office
Amy National Guard
Iraq
America
Amerea
the Post-Standard
Syracuse
Editorial board welcomes community letters to Baytown Sun
Readers are invited to submit original letters or guest columns up to 300 words for publication in The Baytown Sun. Include a non publishing contact address and phone, sign letters, and send to Wanda Garner Cash or David Bloom at The Baytown Sun, P.O. Box 90 Baytown 77522, or fax 281 427 1889 or email sunnew ay.
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David Bloom
Wanda Garner Cash
Joseph Lohan
Dee Arne Navarre
Jim Finley
Sun Man
Baytown Sun
the Sun
The
P.O
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Cam
Coward remark sparks pushback over war views in Houston letter
In a Bay Area New Democrats of Houston exchange, a reader defends civility while criticizing John Cobarmuvias for calling opponents cowards. The letter disputes Iraq war rationale, recalls Vietnam, notes U.N. role, and defends a school name change and local student press. Bobbie Jo Taylor, Baytown.
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Bay Area
New Democrats
Houston
Iraq
Bill Clinton
Osama bin Laden
United States
Cobarnuvias
Saddam
Cobarmuvias
Lyndon Johnson
Vietnam
Tonkin Gulf
Johnson
Highlighted events mark Dec 5 through history
On December 5, 2003 a year’s date line recalls Prohibition ending in 1933 Utah ratified the 21st Amendment. It notes Mozart’s death in 1791, Washington’s re election in 1792, Adams’ House seat in 1831, California gold in 1848, Disney’s birth in 1901, AFL CIO merger in 1955, Speck’s death in 1991, Hoffa Teamsters victory five years ago, Thurmond’s 100th birthday, and a Kansas City pharmacist sentencing for diluting chemotherapy drugs.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Vienna
Austria
George Washington
John Adams
John
Chicago
James P. Hoffa
Teamsters
Tom Leedham
Unions
Strom Thurmond
Capitol Hill
Kansas City
Baytown Sun briefs through the years show local civic milestones
The Baytown Sun compiles notes from 1950 to 2002 highlighting Harris County Grand Jury findings clearing police of dishonesty, a 1975 push for a nine member population control advisory board, St. Joseph School joining Reading is Fundamental in 1978, Reggie Brewer’s 1993 gala leadership for a 1994 scholarship drive, Royce Smith’s 1990 hostage return from Iraq, and Goose Creek ISD’s 2001 ground breaking for the School Community Guidance Center at 4026 Decker Drive, a $3.9 million project due August 2002 now serving Lee High overflow students.
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Baytown Sun
Harris County
Baytown
Jim Fonteno
St. Joseph School
Reggie Brewer
Lee College
Liberty
Royce Smith
Iraq
Goose Creek
Decker Drive
Lee High School
Baytown City Hall Officials and Meeting Schedule
City Hall lists address and contact numbers for City Manager Gary Jackson and Mayor Pete Alfaro. City Council districts 1 through 6 are named with member contacts. Members serve two-year terms and council meets at 6:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Thursdays at City Hall.
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Market St. Baytown
Texas
Gary Jackson
Pete Alfaro
Mercedes Renteria II
Scott Sheley
Calvin Mundinger
Don Murray
Ronnie Anderson
Coleman Godwin
City Hall
Goose Creek CISD Board of Trustees Annual Meeting Details
Goose Creek ISD administration lists trustees and contact details. Superintendent Barbara Sullis oversees District 1 Phelutria Barnes District 2 Rosa Rodriguez District 3 Weston Cotten District 4 James Lewis District 5 Clarence Albus District 6 Jeps Busch District 7 Steve Fischer. Members serve three-year terms and board meets on the second and fourth Mondays at 6 30 p.m.
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Goose Creek Administration
Interstate
East
P.O. Box
Baytown
Texas
Barbara Sullis
Board of Trustees
Phelutria Barnes
Rosa Rodriguez
Weston Cotten
James Lewis
Clarence Albus
Jeps Busch
Steve Fischer
Barbers Hill ISD Board Members and Contacts
Barbers Hill ISD lists administrators and board members with multiple contact numbers. It includes Tim Sonnenberg and Linda Kay Barnhart along with President Thomas E Gene Baker and others, noting terms and meeting schedule for Tucker Hall.
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P.O. Box
Anahuac
Texas
Linda Kay Barnhart
Board of Trustees
Clint Fancher
Gayle Peveto
Allen Herrington
Thomas E
Gene” Baker
Eddie Foster
Jessie D. “Dee” Leggett
Kendall 1. Barrow
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Today
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Lantern Times
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Barbers Hill
Mont Belvieu
Tim Sonnenberg
S. Whiting Baytown
Martha Ellis
Board of Regents
Bill Blake
Keith Coburn
Dan Coffey
Wayne Gray
AOA Abn Onga
Susan Moore-Fontenot
Ronald Haddox
Mark Hall
Mark Himset
Jess D. Navarre
Tucker Hall
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