Cheers and Jeers: AVID success and local praise in Baytown
Readers laud Goose Creek AVID seniors college enrollment and FAFSA rates, celebrate Christmas parades in Baytown, Mont Belvieu and Crosby, and commend local leaders turning lemons into a children's museum. Jeers target Walmart for a controversial sweater and school signage confiscation.
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Dennis Brown
ExxonMobil
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Chambers County
Eagle Drive
Macy Middleton
Baytown Sun top stories week of Nov 26 to Dec 3
The week’s most-read Baytown Sun pieces include a Baytown woman linked to a world doorway, state highway 146 plans drawing ire, Baytown schools potentially staying in one district, and the Redus case advancing to the Texas Supreme Court, among others.
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Baytownsun.com
Baytown
Redus
Texas Supreme Court
Sweet End
Cove
Eagles OL
I-10
Michael Pineda
Today in History Recaps Key Events Across Decades
Highlights include Germany and Italy declaring war on the United States in 1941, Apollo 17 landing two astronauts on the moon in 1972, Carter signing the environmental superfund in 1980, Caylee Anthony’s remains found in 2008, Tiger Woods taking golf leave in 2009, and a Charlottesville killer’s life sentence in 2019. Denial of credit follows with Diderot’s thought on dignity.
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Germany
Italy
United States
U.S
Eugene Cernan
Harrison Schmitt
Jimmy Carter
Florida
Caylee Anthony
Casey Anthony
Tiger Woods
Elin Nordegren
Virginia
Charlottesville
James Alex Fields Jr
Denis Diderot
Impeachment debate urged as constitutional duty called
In a reader letter, the author argues impeachment evidence against Trump is overwhelming. The House must probe alleged Ukraine funding pressure to force an investigation, while critics fear Senate acquittal and warn of erosion of checks and balances. The piece frames free elections as central and condemns apparent efforts to tilt them.
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Rosetta Farr
the Sun
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Trump
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Donald Trump
Life of Mary Smith McCrory Jones from Baytown to Houston
Mary Smith, born 1833 in Brazoria County, later married Anson Jones, last president of the Republic of Texas. Her letters detail Goose Creek and Baytown life, Civil War impact, and postwar Texas history work. She helped found Daughters of the Republic of Texas and influenced school naming for Texas heroes. Died 1907, buried in Glenwood Cemetery.
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Mary Jones
Harris County
Ashbel Smith
Hickory Grove Place
Thomas Gauard
Mary Smith
John
Sarah Smith
Texas
Brazoria County
Austin
Santa Anna
Harrisburg
New Washington
Morgan Point
Louisiana
U. S
Edmund Pendleton Gaines
Sabine
East Texas
Mary
San Jacinto
Houston
Hugh McCrory
McCrory
Anson Jones
United States
Republic of Texas
Barrington
Washington
Brazos
Samuel Edward
Charles Elliot
Sarah Sophia
Sallie
Cromwell Anson
Jones
U. S. Senate
Galveston
Headquarters
Harmony Grove
Kemp
C. C. Preston
Baytown
Bayland Orphan Home
Goose Creek
Samuel
Charles
Bayland Guards Company
Shiloh
Sam Houston
Gaston Ashe
Montgomery
Harris Counties
Crommie
Bagland Orphan Home
University of Houston
Lynchburg
Cedar Bayou
Mr. Galliard
Sam’s
Harland’s
Chubb
Gaston
Willis
Thomas Gaillard
S. Main
W. Main
David A. Wiggins
Wiggins
Old Head Quarters
Elliott
Cromwell
Daughters of Republic of Texas
DRT
The
Alamo
Glenwood
Mary Jones letters are available online at _https://digital.lib. uk
Chuck Chandler
Exxon
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