Lee mascot Platz bids farewell after standout eighth grade to senior run
Platz, a Lee High School mascot, impressed judges from her first tryout beating a junior and senior. She plans to lobby for a new suit as her final football season ends after playoff memories at the Astrodome. She aims to study audiology at Lamar or Texas A&M and continues sign language work with Good Sportsman League and Lee’s Singing Hands.
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Feniello
Platz
Astrodome
Lee
Aldine Nimitz
Ceer Camps
Singing Hands
Baytown
Galveston
Kemah
Lamar
Texas A&m University
Goose Creek ISD faces rezoning and equity concerns
The district pushes a continued rezoning plan and surveys to assess academic achievement. Board members critique test scores among black and Hispanic students, citing Texas benchmarks. Highlands Elementary praised for strong results. Administrators discuss recruiting diverse teachers, reducing long term subs, and lowering central office salaries. A Dec 1 workshop will review high school rezoning.
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York
Pat Guseman
Goose Creek
Ics
Steve Fischer
Fischer
Barbara Sultis
James Lewis
Lewis
Baytown murder case linked to suspect Acuna
Acuna was last seen in Baytown near 4:45 pm on Wednesday before his father reported him missing. James Carroll, 75, and Joyce Carroll, 74, were found dead Thursday. Police upgraded Acuna to a suspect in the killings after a credit card use and a Dallas sighting tied to the Carrolls’ car. Acuna faced an aggravated robbery charge and failed to appear in court, leading to a renewed arrest warrant and bond revocation.
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Acuna
Baytown
Carrolls
Armando Acuna
James Carroll
Ouida Carroll
Joyce Carroll
Michelle Cressy
Dallas
Harris County
San Jacinto Mali
Whitaker
Tim Carroll
James Caroll
ExxonMobil
Baytown Complex
New Orleans
Barbers Hill Eyes Superintendent Search Process Update
The district plans an hour profile session with teachers students community members principals and staff to define priorities for a new superintendent. TASB will advertise online and screen applicants from across the country with background checks. The board aims to start early and finalize dates for the search as Tim Sonnenberg retires at end of 2003 04 school year.
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Barnes
Highlands Elementary
Bares
Clarence Albus
Beverly Walker
Walker
Killough
TASB
McLeod
Philip James
Barbers Hill
James
Tim Sonnenberg
Police log reports multiple thefts and a hit-and-run
Baytown police investigate a break-in at Frank's Grill on Interstate 10 where 4069 dollars in cash were stolen from a safe. Approximately 6000 dollars in computer equipment and car parts vanished from a storage facility at 4400 Baker Rd. A red station wagon was involved in a hit and run near Airhart Street and St Le Fevre Road with the other party leaving the scene. Hayabusha license plate 282 14B valued at 6300 dollars also reported stolen.
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Baker Rd
Airhart Street
St. le Fevre Road
Motorcycle theft and arrest rock Baytown Police Beat
A 2001 blue Suzuki motorcycle was reported stolen from the 2100 block of Cedar Bayou Road. A Baytown man, Darrell Wayne Robinson aka Bone, was arrested after a traffic stop when about a quarter pound of marijuana was found and eight other warrants surfaced. Between Sunday and Monday Baytown police fielded 122 calls including 13 alarms, 1 assault, 3 auto thefts, 4 burglaries, 1 criminal mischief, 14 disturbances, 4 thefts, 1 major and 4 minor accidents.
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Cedar Bayou
Baytown
Darrell Wayne Robinson
Bone
Police
Baytown.org
Finley Memoir of a Brazosport Night and a City Leader
In Brazosport, Jim Finley recalls a night of tragedy near Brazosport High School. He describes meeting T C Sellman, later Freeport mayor, at J C Penney and Weingarten's grocery to discuss the Coffee bar incident. The Bay City Roughnecks won as he wrestled with the story and memory.
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Brazosport
T.C. Sellman
T.C
Freeport
Jcpenny’s
Brazosport High School
Weingarten’s Grocery
Bay City
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Jim Downes Sr
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Rnraurn
Treal
Western United Lie Assurance Company
Spokane
Baron & Budd
Texas Board of Leuat
Seaccosai
Finley
Jim Finley
Houston
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