Baytown Voters Face Bond, Tax Elections And Charter Changes
Baytown voters face a 26 item bond and tax election including a $12.5 million golf course bond, three special taxing districts renewed, and 22 charter amendments. The measures include street maintenance, Crime Control and Prevention District, and Fire EMS district levies, with proceeds supporting city services and a new fire training facility. Registration details are provided for in person and by mail, with offices listed in Harris and Chambers counties.
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Baytown
Votetexas. Gov
Harris County
W. Baker Road
Chambers County
Eagle Drive
Mont Belvieu
Voting for Prop 24 Letters to the Editor
A Baytown reader urges passage of Prop 24 to fund a public golf course on Evergreen Road via Municipal Development District sales tax. The letter argues the city can manage the course for all residents, notes outside residents pay part of the tax, and cites Pirates Bay Waterpark as a successful local precedent. The author supports the golf course proposal and separate related propositions to boost the east side.
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Ms. Brewer
Harris County
Hazelwoods
Hazelwood
Baytown
Roberson
Pirates Bay Waterpark
Parks and Recreation Department
Parks Department
Evergreen Road
Washington at Germantown remembered as a day of heavy losses
On this date in history Gen George Washington led an assault on Germantown, Pennsylvania, causing heavy American casualties. The day also marks the 1957 CBS premiere of Leave It to Beaver and the death of Janis Joplin in 1970 at age 27 in a Hollywood hotel.
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George Washington
Germantown
Pennsylvania
CBS
Janis Joplin
Hollywood
Ben Hecht
Old Baytown junior high gossip and school life from 1948
Tidbits from the February 1948 BJH Goslin Press recount fashion trends such as whirling ballerina skirts and saddle oxfords, plus a sports trophy win in Pasadena. The piece notes new students, gossip items, student ambitions, and campus leadership changes, reflecting a bygone school culture and staff insights from Wanda Orton at The Sun.
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Lee College
Robert E. Lee High School
Baytown Junior High
University of Houston
Goose Creek
BJH Goslin
Kay Cressley Hayes
Katherine Walker
Pasadena
Horace Mann
Texas City
Bob Stout
Kevin Lounsberry
Jack Banta
Gordon Kellogg
Zeke Olachin
Vernell Caldwell
Nicholas Vamvakias
Bath
Maine
BJH
Nicholas
Orchids
Monte Zoe Land
Onions
L.A. Bergeron
Dennis Novosad
Pat Ball
Mrs. Lee
Shirley Hlanak
Mary Lou Buford
Edna Lou McCarty
Oct 6 1960 Bay City wedding in Sweeny Texas ends in lifelong blessing
Jim Finley recalls marrying Margie Holub in a bright October dawn at Holy Cross Church Bay City with family present. He recounts gifts from his grandfather a paid off 1955 Chevy and a sparse honeymoon, ending with gratitude for 55 years of marriage and a career in journalism.
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Sweeny
Texas
USA
Earth
Margie
Papa
J.P
Dora
Bay City
Holy Cross Catholic Church
Mama
Papa Finley
Ben
Jimbo
Clute
Palacios
Houston
St. Francis Mote
Bill Williams Restaurant
Old Rice Stadium
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Harley Ponder
Ann Donoghue
Ira Gigout
Jeanette Garber
Goslin Press
Wanda Orton
the Sun
Viewpoints
Baytownsun. Com
Attention
Gop
Benghazi
BEAT
Hillary Fight Club
Beat Hillary Fight Club
McCarthy
Annie Holub
Robin
Lolly
Doris Hicks
Bill Holub
Ace Radio-Tv
Bill
Ben Holub
Sealy
Vera Nell
Lawrence Hicks
Jim Finley
Baytownsun.com
The
Baytown Sun
Memorial Drive
Baytownsun
Facebook
Janie Gray
David Bloom
Brenda Burt Vo
April Jones
James Tay
Jay Eshbach
M. A. Bengtson
Tony Polumbo
Newsroom
Sun
P.O
Sunnev Baytownsun.com
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