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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 2004
Page
1
O J Howell helped organize Lee College's first basketball squad in 1937. The cagers named the Blue Devils played universities and semiprofessional teams as they began a long basketball tradition. Howell compares early days to the modern game.
In Texas redistricting Baytown splits into three congressional districts. The 2nd District opens with Nick Lampson as the sole Democrat candidate after the reshaping, while six Republicans contend for the GOP nomination. The district spans central north Harris County through Liberty and Jefferson Counties with Baytown central in the southeast.
Local Christian rock band Fourth Man Standing from Baytown entered a Spring Battle of the Bands at Club Refuge in Spring. Teens judged the contest while drummer Josh Neal led the group formerly known as Crimson, naming themselves after Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego from a Bible story.
Baytown volunteers from four service groups built a rocket a flag a bridge and film gear with more than 2057 canned goods and nonperishables. The first Art for Food event raised 1272 dollars and drew local shoppers to Mervyn's wing at San Jacinto Mall. Volunteers from Rotary Club Baytown Annvanis Pilot and Baytown Junior Forum competed for best exhibit with community voting and a Campbell soup can display by Kiwanis winning top honors.
Goose Creek parents wrestle with philosophy of education and grade configurations as a new committee considers long term future lines. They seek which schools their children will attend in coming years, but firm decisions on redrawing boundaries have not yet been made.
Goose Creek purchased 44 acres at Garth Road and Seabird Street for 2.3 million dollars within Baytown city limits, a land price of 52 000 per acre. In contrast 60 acres at North Main and Wallisville cost 927 000 dollars, 15 500 per acre, while employee raises totaled 2.6 million that year. The Garth Road site is described as a hook up and go site with existing water wastewater and storm water infrastructure.
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