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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 2009
Page
3
City officials push a public smoking ban with fines up to 500 dollars after a first violation. Proponents argue health and consistency, while opponents favor bars that are stand‑alone and a level playing field for connected venues. Smoke Free Baytown leads a coalition against broader public smoking.
Polling locations open 7 AM to 7 PM across Precincts 11 5 13 28 739 99 100 102 248 249 250 386 63 387 414 456 103 740 532 and as well as central venues Chambers County community center Pumphrey elementary and others. Local groups and major health and civic organizations back a shared philosophy guiding the city’s choices tomorrow. Baytown Sun reporters contributed to this report.
The ticket details include mayoral candidate Rev. Joe Landry and alderman positions across Colleen Fontenot Dennis Demura Adonna Creel for various places. Collected lists show Colleen Fontenot Dennis Demura Adonna Creel for alderman place 2 4 and 1 2 3 for different districts. Mont Belvieu Beach City list multiple aldermen and school trustees with names and positions including Rita Standridge Ray Smith Glenda Hernandez Jay Hammes Patricia Wright Combs Jack Lasater Becky Tice Randy Foster Ronnie Mayfield Fred Skinner Lonnie Follis Arnold Peters Kevin Yeager Tommy Grimes and others.
Mayoral candidates discuss progress and future goals for Baytown. They highlight accountability, city direction, business growth, and improving residents’ quality of life, with pledges to pause, evaluate, and push Baytown forward.
DonCarlos touts accomplishments under his tenure including emergency readiness, beautification funding, improved transport and safety, more police, and street repairs. Lee proposes privatizing city government, expanding police, rejecting federal stimulus, supporting small business, and contractor accountability. Spitaleri prioritizes clearer city taxpayer communication. Cuellar, a lifelong resident, seeks rebuilding efforts and civic engagement.
Police arrested a man on North Main Street for possession of drug paraphernalia after narcotics search. A DWI stop occurred at Kentucky and Maryland. A black 2006 Ford Focus was stolen from West Baker Road between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday. The report lists criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, forgery, one sexual assault, seven thefts, and 22 arrests from other jurisdictions with five traffic accidents handled.
A man and woman left a meal unpaid at a restaurant in the 6800 block of Thompson Road. A Baytown officer arrested a woman for shoplifting over $70 in clothing from a store in the 6900 block of Garth Road. A theft of $915 worth of household goods occurred at a construction site in the 1000 block of Wards Road.
Between 6 a.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday Baytown police issued 43 offense reports and handled incidents including two assaults one auto theft three burglaries one burglary of a motor vehicle and four additional incidents.
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