Readers cheer and jeer highlight local and national issues
Baytown Sun highlights cheers for Cody Stephens Law promoting ECG awareness and for Baytown police officers aiding an elderly resident. Also praises Wismer Distributing’s Texas Bud Heatwave run in Mont Belvieu, and condemns Ice Cream larceny and Trump’s pay-rise claims to service members.
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Greg Abbott
Cody
Crosby
Cody Stephens
Stephens
Scott and
Melody
Baytown
Clint Holden
Troy Crawford
Barbara Risner
Holden
Crawford
Risner
Wismer
Mont Belvieu
Dirly
Trump
Osan Air Base
South Korea
Naval Academy
U.S
Top Baytown Sun stories week of July 2 to 9
The Baytown Sun lists the week’s most read pieces by page views led by a July 2 to 9 ranking. Topping items include a boating crash aftermath and local events, with multiple pieces on crime, community issues, and local culture. The year’s top reads also feature a police shooting case and a murder-related trial update.
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Baytownsun.com
Chambers Co
Baytown
USS Texas
Country Star
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P.O
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Today in History Highlights From 1929 to 2002
On this date in 1929 US currency size was reduced by about 25 percent as new bills entered circulation. In 1985 Coca Cola agreed to resume selling old formula alongside New Coke after customer protests. In 2002 the House approved a bill to let pilots carry guns in the cockpit to fight terrorists. Bush signed it into law. Thought by Frank Herbert praises diverse approaches to life.
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Coca-Cola Co
House
George W. Bush
Frank Herbert
Names in the middle shine through family lore
Wanda Orton, longtime managing editor of The Sun, reflects on middle names across her family and famous figures. She recalls Jade Danielle, Evan van Jones, Lorraine, and numerous middle-name signatures from relatives and classmates, noting how common and personal middle names can be.
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Michelle
Jade
Evan Trey
Evan
Newton Evan Jones
Van
Danielle
Lorraine
Baby
Wanda Jones
Rachel
Katherine
Robert E. Lee
Thomas Lanny Henninger
Mona Ferel Skidmore
Mary Sue Parker Johnson
Thomas Jerry Torkelson
James Darrell Stroud
Opal Joy Walker Turner
Wanda Orton
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Baytownsun. Com
Ride through Baytown's lost interurban rails of 1927 61
A nostalgic tour of the Houston North Shore interurban line from Goose Creek to downtown Houston, 1927 to 1961. The piece details depots, car names, stops like Pelly and Elena, school changes, and future Baytown development, including Ha t Colt structures and bridges along Daniel Street and Goose Creek.
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San Francisco
Houston
Tri-Cities
United States
Goose Creek
Texas Avenue
Elena
S. Main Street
East Republic
Pelly
Pruett Street
Goose Creek Grammar School
Goose Creek High School
New Lee High School
Anson Jones
Horace Mann
Daniel Street
Bay Shore
Tabb’s Bay
Lee Drive
George Washington Carver School
Mt Rose Baptist Church
John Schilling
Nemacrenaare Ansieawaigen
Wnewes Aasntruinnameainnes
Eugene
Fale
Martin
Il Universal
Ic If
Il Abbey
Oakley Greens Bayou
Ridlon
Mantu
Cedar Bluff
Bratton Ee
Highlands
Buster
Garth
McNair
Linus
Baytown
Goose Creek Pelly Feew
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Jerry Keith Ulch
Cecil Ray Woods
Billie June Wilson Roeder
Robert Louis Carter
Catherine Janell Carroll Brink
Victor Eddie Buchanek
Etta Jane Bonds
Helen Sandra Montgomery Clay
Raymond Eugene Fayle
Henry Warren Beatty
Troyal Garth Brooks
Hannah Dakota Fanning
John Will Ferrell
William Brad Pitt
Christopher Ashton Kutcher
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon
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Ross Sterling
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Baytown Pelly Road
W. Main Street
Market Street
Humble Oil
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Chuck Chandler
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