Chambers County jail earns two-year compliance with TCJS
Sheriff Joe LaRive led Chambers County Jail back into compliance after two years of violations. An inspector certified the facility on June 28 following improvements funded by the county, including a new roof and upgrades to generators lighting and plumbing. Staffing remains an ongoing challenge as the jail houses 110 to 120 inmates with a required three officers on duty. The jail sits at 201 North Court Street in Anahuac near the courthouse.
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Chambers County
Joe LaRive
Texas Commission On Jail Standards
LaRive
Dearl Hardy
Adan Munoz
TCJS
Munoz
George Johnson
Larry Cook
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
Cook
N. Court St
Anahuac
Missing four-year-old found at San Jacinto Mall outing
Police traced a four-year-old boy from a church day care group after he wandered in a mall parking lot near San Jacinto. Capt. Roger Clifford said the child remained at the police station until parents and daycare were found, while officers assured him about police work. A Baytown woman who ingested crack cocaine was found disoriented on Decker Drive and later treated at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital. Police plan to obtain a warrant for her arrest.
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San Jacinto Mall
Roger Clifford
Highlands
Clifford
Baytown
Decker Drive
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Car egged and flour bombed on Longhorn Drive
A woman reported an unknown person covered her mother's car with flour and eggs sometime Monday night in the 4200 block of Longhorn Drive. Baytown police logged 195 calls from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday, including 14 alarms, four assaults, two auto thefts, four burglaries, two vehicle burglaries, three misconduct incidents, seven disturbances, three forgeries, two shots fired, 11 thefts, and 13 minor accidents. Crime Stoppers offers cash tips at 281-427-TIPS. full report available on the City of Baytown site.
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Longhorn Drive
Baytown
City of
Mont Belvieu Enterprise buyout plan faces mixed reaction
A Mont Belvieu resident told the City Council that the Enterprise Products buyout near Highway 146 may not be win win for all. The plan offers 34 nearby homeowners compensation at least three times assessed value or 150000, with 60 days to make offers.
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Mont Belvieu
Enterprise Products
Louis Cox
Enterprise
Highway
Loop
Sun Oil Road
Coastal Water Authority Canal
Cox
Cecil Parker
Chase
Grimes
Council
The
Texas Railroad Commission
Highway 146
District aims to raise all high school scores and close gaps
The district plans a three year effort to raise high school TAKS passing rates and state average performance across math science English and social studies while narrowing gaps among white Hispanic black and economically disadvantaged students. Leaders urge early intervention from 6th grade and a shift toward career and technology focus as TAKS ends in 2011.
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Sterling
Lee
Carl Burg
Burg
Kirk
Texas
District 7
Steve Fischer
Fischer
Music Men lead REL band and choir at school event
J C Jake Burkett and Tommy Seale directed REL’s Music Men band and choir, with Betty White and Alvera Griffin in charge of the Lee Brigadiers drum and bugle corps. Catherine Prince led the REL Band on the field. twirlers included Margaret Craig, Naida Bond, Rosa Gonzales, and others. Top REL administrators were R B Sparks, Holly McLemore, Eula Potter, Winnie Brown, Roy White, and Dorothy Willis, with George Gentry as superintendent. Wanda Orton is a retired Baytown Sun managing editor.
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Jake” Burkett
Tommy Seale
REL
Betty White
Alvera Griffin
Lee
Catherine Prince
Margaret Craig
Naida Bond
Rosa Gonzales
Judy Wood
Carolyn Freeland
Carol Franklin
Ann
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