Coming home to Wooster for 75th Wooster Baptist Church anniversary
A Baytown writer recalls growing up near Wooster Baptist Church on Bayway Drive and attending its 75th anniversary. He describes family ties, church roles, and lifelong friendships formed there, noting the church's enduring presence as his hometown memory and plans to attend the Sunday service.
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Thomas Wolfe
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Wooster Baptist Church
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Travis Elementary
Locoweed in GOP Corrals Sparks Political Quarrel
A Baytown letter accuses Republican frontrunners of locoweed inspired behavior after a 2016 campaign season. The writer cites oxytopis sericea and astragalus lentiginosus as calamitous feeds causing crazed action, uncertain footing, and paralysis, urging a high wall around the GOP to quarantine locoweed effects.
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Raymond Martin
Mont Belvieu
Living off the grid almost a week in Hill Country
Jane Howard Lee, Baytown Sun contributor, recounts eight days with minimal Internet and phone use in the Hill Country. She contrasts limited digital contact with the constant connectivity of friends and family, advocates quieter, more direct interactions, and plans to reduce screen time further.
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Hill Country
Baytown Sun
Beck and Call
Poem Honors Dr King Life and Ongoing Struggle
A Baytown community poem honors Martin Luther King Jr. noting his sacrifice and urging unity across races. It reflects on progress and ongoing battles for equality and justice with a call to personal action and collective responsibility. Sonia Barrett, Baytown resident and activist, is cited for contact.
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Sonia Barrett
Baytown
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This Day In History Highlights From 1861 to 1994 Events
A digest of notable historical moments: Jefferson Davis and four Southern senators resign from the U S Senate in 1861, New York alders ban smoking by women in 1908, Kiwanis Club foundation in 1915, USS Nautilus launched in 1954, Carter forgives draft evaders in 1977, Lorena Bobbitt acquittal in 1994, Gabrielle Giffords transfer for rehab in 2009, plus a George Burns quote.
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Kiwanis Club
Detroit
Groton
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Jimmy Carter Par
Manassas
Virginia
Lorena Bobbitt
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Arizona
Gabrielle Giffords
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