Quiet zone plan seeks Baytown rail safety upgrade
Our view supports Baytown city effort to establish a downtown quiet zone between Gulf and Foyle. The plan requires safety improvements near crossings, including barriers and longer gates, with a May 22 vote to authorize purchasing land and closing Lobit North Main intersection, potentially costing about 200000 dollars.
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Little Theater
Wilkenk
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Foyle
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Lobit Streets
Lobit
Thanking Baytown Police for quick roadside help
A Baytown couple thanks the Baytown Police Department after a patrol officer stopped on Cedar Bayou Road when the husband felt ill. The officer checked on them, advised caution when backing out, and left them to recover, leaving a positive impression of the department.
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Baytown
Cedar Bayou
Baytown Police
Baytown overpass misses east side U turn lane
David Parker Highlands complains that I-10 Baytown reconstruction omitted an east side U turn lane at John Martin. He notes a west side lane now exists and fears Buc ee s coming to town will worsen traffic. He asks why the lane was not included during initial construction.
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John Martin
Buc-ee
David Parker
Highlands
May 18 in History Highlights From World Events
On May 18 1944 Allied forces finally occupied Monte Cassino after a four month struggle in Italy. Other facts include Plessy v Ferguson endorsing separate but equal in 1896 and the Lindbergh Act of 1934 imposing death penalties for interstate kidnapping.
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Italy
Supreme Court
Plessy
Earth
Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eugene A. Cernan
Thomas P. Stafford
John W. Young
Mount St. Helens
Washington State
Randy Johnson
Arizona Diamondbacks
Atlanta Braves
Stanislaw J. Lee
Gray notes shaped Texas history in Baytown era
William Fairfax Gray, visiting Texas from Virginia, chronicled the Runaway Scrape and Texas independence, later shaping Houston through Christ Church Cathedral. His diaries, later titled Gray's Diary, reveal views on Burnet and Zavala, with Baytown descendants tracing kinship to Zavala.
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William Fairfax Gray
Texas
Virginia
Gray
Baytown
Ted Davis
Gray Davis Boone
Edwin T. Davis
ExxonMobil
Santa Anna
Washington-on-the Brazos
Handbook of Texas
New Republic of Texas
David G. Burnet
Chambers
Liberty County
Jacob Winfree
Chambers County
Old Virginny
Milly
Grays
Houston
Republic of Texas
Christ Church Cathedral
Washington DC meeting with Hollywood stars and a rising star
The narrator recalls a January day in Washington DC during George H. W. Bushs inauguration year 1989. He mingled with Efrem Zimbalist Jr Charlton Heston Kevin Costner Claude Akins and Lee Greenwood alongside Lisa Whelchel. Photos were taken with Lynn Fields and Kevin Costner, and The Baytown Sun editor Wanda Orton discussed running the images.
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Efrem Zimbalist Jr
Efrem
Washington D.C
Charlton Heston
Kevin Costner
Claude Akins
Lee Greenwood
Lisa Whelchel
Blair
Mickey Mouse Club
Lisa
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ACE
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D.C
George H.W. Bush
Lynn Fields
Jack Fields
National Rifle Association
NRA
Heston
Costner
77 Sunset Strip
FBI
Sheriff Lobo
B.J. and
the Bear
USA
Nough
Charlton
Lynn
The
Baytown Sun
Kevin
Wanda Orton
Sun
Newsman
Bat Cave
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