Saddling up for one more ride on District 2 council
Guest View by a long-serving Baytown City Council member reflects on a 2013 campaign, district improvements from drainage to streetlights, demolition of eyesores, and the Downtown Arts District transformation. He plans to seek another term with a caveat for successor planning, hoping to finish what he started and boost voter turnout.
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Bob Leiper
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Nazro Street
Rick Davis
Oak Addition
San Jacinto Hospital
Don Carlos
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Capetillo
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Remembering when Jerry Langford preserves childhood memories
Wanda Orton notes the value of writing memories for future generations and recounts Jerry Langford’s recollections of Cedar Bayou Elementary. He recalls Mrs Gibbs third grade, Easter egg hunts, Elles store snacks, RC and moon pies, and cafeteria moments shaping local youth in Cedar Bayou before consolidation with Goose Creek.
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Buck Young
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Elles
Prominent columnist admits spelling gaffe in Bee column
Jim Finley, longtime Baytown Sun editor, confesses he misspelled Scripps National Spelling Bee as Scripts in a recent column. He recalls the incident, credits Lynn Fields for pointing it out, and pledges stricter proofing in future columns while noting his own 48 years in journalism.
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Batman
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Ross S. Sterling
San Jacinto College
Jack Fields
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Humble Isd
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Pioneering Typewriter Patent Highlights 1868 Era
On this date in 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for the Type Writer featuring a QWERTY keyboard, the first commercially successful typewriter. In 1972 President Richard Nixon resigned from office amid the Watergate crisis.
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Christopher Latham Sholes
Richard Nix
Haldeman discussed CIA aid to block FBI Watergate probe
A taped exchange reveals President Nixon's chief of staff H R Haldeman proposing CIA help to obstruct the FBI Watergate investigation. The revelation contributed to the 1974 resignation. May Sarton, poet, born in Belgium in 1912, died 1995, offered a thought on loneliness versus solitude.
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