Goose Creek debates third high school amid overcrowding
Ten years after a failed $20.4 million bond for a third Goose Creek high school, Lee and Sterling campuses now face capacity shortages for 6,100 students by 2011. A task force narrowed options to a new high school or a magnet school with a likely $60 million price tag and a February 2005 referendum.
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Sterling
Lee and Sterling
Sterling High
Sterlis
Baytown
Haiti's turmoil prompts US-led multinational force
The piece notes Aristide's exile to the Central African Republic and criticism of his rule. It argues US involvement is needed amid Haitian divisions and calls for broad political participation as the UN Security Council approves a multinational force led by the United States to restore order.
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Afrian
White House
Aristide
United States
U.N. Security Council
Los Angeles Times
Baytown Sun invites public input to editorial board
The Baytown Sun reports its editorial board meets weekly at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays and welcomes letters up to 300 words and guest columns up to 500 words. Submissions should be original, signed, include contact details, and may be edited or refused.
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Wanda Garner Cash
Joseph Lohan
Dee Anne Navarre
Jim Finley
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Jane Howard Lee
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Baytownsun.com
Woman Returns Purse After Helpful Stranger Named Lawrance
Mary L. Nonna writes of Ophelia Landry thanking Tamya Lawrance for finding and returning Landry’s purse left in a Wal-Mart cart on Feb. 16. Lawrance, who was in Baytown on her birthday, refused gas money, traveling to meet at a designated spot to deliver the purse with its contents.
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Vera Carrpbell
Ophelia Landry
Wal-Mart
Winnie
Tamya Lawrance
Baytown
Misrepresentation of open meeting rules by Goose Creek board
David Koempel, consultant with the Texas Association of School Boards, defends open session requirements under board policy and the Texas Open Meetings Act. He urges community members to attend meetings to observe discussions and decisions, emphasizing public access to board actions.
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Keri Mitchell
Goose Creek
Churches United in Crosby honors thrift store volunteers
A note of thanks from Churches United in Caring for Crosby, Barrett, and Huffman highlights volunteers who staff the CUIC assistance center and thrift shop. The group, established in 1983, moved to a new Church Street building with donations from area churches and the public. 2004-05 officers are Inez Jones Vice President, Georgia Ann Smesney Treasurer, and Ann Prokesch Secretary.
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Canny
Crosby
CUIC
Crosby, Barrett
Huffman
Church Street
Board of Churches United In Caring For
Inez Jones
Georgia
Ann Smesney
Ann Prokesch
Mentor James Bradford fuels student success at SIM City regional
The Baytown Sun photo and article highlight Horace Mann students praising mentor James Bradford of GDS Engineering. He spent personal time at holidays to guide ideas and build their city model, even funding a trophy and meals with his wife Francis. He returns yearly, inspiring four years of competition without pay.
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Baytown Sun
Horace Mann
SIM City
James Bradford
GDS Engineering
Bradford
Francis
Goose Creek
GDS
March 7 highlights in world history this year
On this date in history notable events include Bell patenting the telephone in 1876, Burbank's birth in 1849, Webster backing the Compromise of 1850, Ravel's birth in 1875, U S troops on the Mexican border in 1911, the first trans Atlantic radio telephone in 1926, Hitler marching into the Rhineland in 1936, Remagen bridge crossing in 1945, the Selma civil rights march disruption in 1965, Senate filibuster rule change in 1975, and Bitterman’s capture in Colombia in 1981.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Luther Burbank
Lancaster
Mass
Senate
Daniel Webster
Maurice Ravel
Osbourne
France
United States
Colombia
Chester Allen Bitterman
CIA
Texas news bytes from 1941 to 2001 events
A seismograph crewman drowned in Trinity Bay in 1941. In 1976, Sgt W C Jackson joined FBI National Academy in Quantico. Ronald Mann, 1978 Lee High valedictorian, began work in the US Solicitor General's office. In 2001 Texans lined up for Lotto Texas 77 million prize. A Sterling booster meeting last year featured the Ranger band, signaling Danny Long era.
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W.C. Jackson
FBI National Academy
Quantico
Ronald Mann
Lee High School
US Solicitor General
Sterling Football
Ranger
Danny Long
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