Cheers and Jeers: Local honors and national debate
Cheers to the Promise Center board for renaming the center after Fred Aguilar and to Jim Ferris for funding relief flights to the Bahamas. Also praise Baytown Symphony Orchestra kicking off its 52nd season and a rescheduled Oct 27 mixer at Yepez Vineyard. Jeers target the NBA China dispute sparked by Darryl Morey, with reactions from Tilman Fertitta and the Houston consulate and a rebuke of censorship.
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Promise Center
Center
Fred Aguilar
Aguilar
Jim Ferris
Bahamas
Ferris
Tennessee Garvey
Baytown Symphony Orchestra
Yepez Vineyard
BSO
Baytown
NBA
China
Darryl Morey
Hong Kong
Morey
Rockets
Tilman Fertitta
People’s Republic of China
Houston
Top Baytown Sun reads week of Oct 1 8 highlights
Baytown Sun lists the week’s top ten most read stories from Oct 1 to Oct 8 including repairs to a bridge, a fatal motorcycle crash, a shooting victim identified by the medical examiner, a Baytown athlete facing family cancer, a battleship capture plan, a fatal motorcycle crash victim named, two fatal crashes, a hospital unit opening, a fatal hit and run driver sought, and local festival plans for Baytown and Highlands.
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Baytownsun.com
Houston Methodist
Baytown
Highlands
Today in History Highlights Through the Ages
On this date, 1776 Spanish missionaries settled in present day San Francisco. 1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly coast to coast. 1936 the first Boulder Dam generator sent power to Los Angeles. 2001 daylight raids hit Kandahar in Afghanistan. 2012 Jer ry Sandusky sentenced to 30 to 60 years. Obama Nobel Peace Prize noted. Haley to depart end of year. Thought by Al McGuire.
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San Francisco
Laura Ingalls
United States
Roosevelt Field
N.Y
Glendale
Calif
Boulder
Hoover) Dam
Los Angeles
Afghanistan
Kandahar
Penn State
Jerry Sandusky
Barack Obama
Nobel Committee
Donald Trump
U.N
Nikki Haley
Haley
al McGuire
Arcadia Theater in Baytown: Memories of a Maroon Curtain Era
Wanda Orton recounts childhood visits to the Arcadia Theater on Market Street in Baytown, recalling neighbors, the Humble Oilers stake, and theater mogul Howard E. Brunson. She shares vivid memories from films like Tarzan and Sergeant York, stage weddings, and personal moments at the maroon curtain that divided auditorium and lobby.
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Bay Theater
Old Baytown
Arcadia
Bay
Bernstein’s
Wiener’s
Barber & Brunson
Tyler Café
Shamrock Tailors
Humble Bee
Blue Arrow Café
Rettig
Baytown
Mutual Benefit Association Clinic
Mutual Benefit
Humble Oilers
Arcadia Theater
Howard E. Brunson
Tarzan
Tree
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogers
Ritz
Nyoka
Gene Autry
Roy Rogers
Elaine Coker
Elaine
the Arcadia
Sergeant York
Erna Beth Scammen
John Foxworth
Daily Sun
Sun
Bob Matherne
Foxworths
Robert
Falcon Crest
Regional post offices of 19th century Texas Gulf area
The piece traces early mail service in the Republic of Texas era. It notes routes from Houston to Galveston via Harrisburg Lynchburg and Spilman Island, with weekly Monday departures and Sunday returns by boat. It details Cedar Bayou Liberty Chambers counties post offices, Lynchburg later renamed, Civil War disruptions, and Baytown’s short lived 1859 office at Hagerman's Landing with steam boat delivery to Midway.
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Mexico
Republic of Texas
Houston Telegraph and
Texas Register
Houston
Galveston Island
Harrisburg
Lynchburg
Spilman’s Island
Galveston
Cedar Bayou
W. J. Mills
Liberty County
Needlepoint Road
Chambers County
Confederate States
Lynchburgh
H. Washington
Harris County
A. P. Tompkins
Mary Jones
Anson Jones
W. Main Street
Col. M. Woodward
Baytown
Simon Hagerman
Goose Creek
Midway Landing
ExxonMobil
Hagerman’s
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Thebayteu
Carol Skewes
David Bloom
Dean West
Misty Warner
Reader Advisory Board
P.O
Texas
Southern Newspapers Inc
Memoria Drive
Continental
U.S
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