Cheers and Jeers highlight local wins and national backlash
Baytown celebrates repeated honors from the 2019 Project of the Year for San Jacinto Boulevard and the statue of Sam Houston. Baytown All-Star team advances to Pony South Zone, aiming for the World Series in Pennsylvania. Patti Henry earns District Clerk of the Year, Chambers County gains Aa2 bond rating for Mont Belvieu, while a separate denunciation condemns the president’s go back remarks as racist and unacceptable.
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Remembering the good old days of presidential conduct
A reader invokes a string of past presidential critiques and contrasts them with current politics. The letter by Frank Butcher laments perceived declines in rule of law, accountability, and civility, asserting earlier presidents respected norms and defied political taunts.
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Top 10 Baytown Sun reads week of July 9 16
Baytown Sun lists the week’s top ten most read articles by page views. Highlights include Dateline NBC coverage, a severe weather note on Barry, a Baytown shooting investigation, land clearing protests, a rollover crash in Mont Belvieu, a murder confession, and local license actions. The year’s top reads feature a police shooting, a life sentence, and a trial date for a strangling case.
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Today in history highlights across Civil War to modern times
Key events listed include the 1862 Second Confiscation Act freeing slaves sheltered by Union lines, the 1975 Apollo Soyuz linkup, the 1996 TWA 800 crash off Long Island killing 230, and the 2019 civil rights context around Eric Garner’s death with background about a 2015 settlement. Thought for Today quotes St. Augustine.
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Baytown Brat Pack Doles Out A Day Of Teen Fun
Wanda Orton recalls a late 1940s Baytown day when junior high youths biked to the Community Building for tennis, badminton, checkers, and table tennis. They cooled off at Jimmy's Drug Store on Minnesota Street before the refinery whistle sent workers flooding the streets. The Baytown Brat Pack reader remembrance names Mona Oakes, Neal Oakes, John Everett Brazier, Suzanne Long, and the author.
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