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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 2008
Page
6
Jim Finley retires from his role as managing editor at Eshbach Community in Clifton MA Bengtson Community notes his decades of service and welcomes a successor to lead local newsroom efforts.
A family grapples with the 2008 presidential race amid economic worry and Hurricane Ike fallout. The author contrasts generations, notes religious faith, debates voting choice, and hopes the next president will prioritize American domestic concerns over foreign priorities as the election nears.
A compiled contact guide lists federal leaders including President George W Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with phone and fax numbers, and senators John Cornyn and Kay Hutchison with district lines. It also provides representatives Ted Poe Ron Paul Gene Green and local publisher Clifton E Clements and staff emails for Baytown Sun. The Sun invites letters up to 300 words and guest columns up to 500 words with writer photos.
The Baytown Sun published daily at 1301 Memorial Drive Baytown Texas 77522 provides contact numbers for news retail classified and circulation and states delivery by 6 a.m. Monday through Saturday and by 8 a.m. Sunday with redelivery available if not received by 9 a.m.
In a letter to the editor residents complain that Garth Road and Main Street suffer heavy congestion with frequent traffic lights and multi-block backups at the 146 overpasses. The writer calls for reconsidering one-way options or adding North South streets and asks for a public vote to deliver relief.
After Hurricane Ike, Baytown residents describe acts of charity at Golden Corral where military diners were treated free of charge and Arch ie Moyers family volunteered at a Red Cross station in the former Kmart lot. The writer praises acts of faith, community rebuilding, and neighborly acts as examples of good arising from disaster.
OurBaytown com requests submitted photographs of Hurricane Ike damage for inclusion on its web site. Send with submitter name and details to baytownbert gmail com or mail to Bert Marshall 4609 Buffalo Tr Baytown Texas 77521 with return postage if requested. All photos credited to the submitter.
After a nationwide campaign Lee College received about forty applications. The search committee recommended eight for Board review. six were invited for interviews, with one withdrawing. Five were interviewed, then three more withdrew, leaving two. One of the two advanced but the board sought at least three candidates to present to the college. ACCT was asked to recruit more and provided three additional candidates.
Chronology of Charles Cronen known as Uncle Charlie, the last surviving member of Jean Laffite's Galveston gang, who died in 1893. He recalled Laffite straddling piracy and privateering, explained Bolivar Peninsula's name via smuggling routes, and described his own seafaring start in France and later service with Captain James Campbell before deserting the Hotspur. The tale situates Cronen among late pirate-era settlers in East Harris and Chambers County after Laffite fled Galveston.
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