Baytown Holiday Events Include Parade Boat Parade and Concerts
Baytown residents will enjoy a season of events led by the Baytown Symphony Orchestra and Baytown Community Chorus with Handel's Messiah and a Christmas program. A first Baytown Christmas Boat Parade will start at Roseland Park, pass the Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church viewing grounds, then return to Roseland Park. Judging for Lakewood Civic Association and Lakewood Garden Club displays begins Thursday at 6:30 PM with five winners to receive yard signs and gifts. Registration costs $10 and includes a Saturday morning captain’s breakfast December 15 at 8 AM at Grace United Methodist Church. call 281-427-4754 for details.
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Lee College Chorale
Lakewood Garden Club
Lakewood Civic Association
Baytown
Roseland Park
Cedar Bayou United
Grace United Methodist Church
North Pruett
Bayer
Goose Creek campuses win TEA Gold Performance Acknowledgments
Twelve Goose Creek CISD campuses earned Gold Performance Acknowledgments from the Texas Education Agency for high performance on TAKS related indicators and for Comparable Improvement. Seven campuses received multiple acknowledgments, including Cedar Bayou Junior School and Gentry Junior School.
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Texas Education Agency
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Lamar
Suzanne Keith
San Jacinto
Karen Thomas
Hopper
Barbara Ardoin
Cedar Bayou
Judy Duncan
Highlands
Steve Herring
Robin Stoerner
de Zavala
David Yepez
Gentry
Daniel Lopez
Goose Creek
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David Yannotta
Texas Assessment of Knowledge
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Gentry Junior
Highlands Junior
Alamo
Austin
Bowie
Crockett
Baytown editor recalls Kennedy assassination shock
Wanda Orton, longtime Baytown Sun editor, recounts hearing Kennedy's death on the car radio while driving home from Bay Villa via Park Street. The Nov 22 mood shifts from celebration at a Thomas appreciation dinner to horror as news breaks. Weeks later U.S. Rep. Thomas visits Baytown somberly, tears in his eyes.
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Bayway Drive
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