Cheers and Jeers: Baytown police relief and local honors
Readers submit praise for Officer Tobias who recovered stolen items, a Baytown Baytown United Way Days of Caring volunteers count nearly 50 projects with ExxonMobil involvement, plus praise for a new air pollution monitor in Baytown Channelview and Pasadena. A Bay Oaks Harbor marker is renewed, and Community Resource Credit Union opens a rolling creek Drive headquarters with 72 staff and room to grow.
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Baytown
Officer Tobias
Craig Dickey
United Way
ExxonMobil
Channelview
Pasadena
Deer Park
Intercontinental Terminals Co
Bay Oaks
Michael Pineda
Baytown Top Reads Week Oct 17 22 Baytown Sun
The Baytown Sun lists the week’s top ten most read stories by page views from Oct 17 to Oct 22. Notable items include Walk for Freedom from a Baytown church and an armored car heist, among others.
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Baytownsun.com
Walk For Freedom
Baytown Church
Community Resource Credit Union
GCM
Miss Highlands
Baytown
Market Street Road
Michael Pineda
Baytown Sun
Today in History Highlights Notable Events by Year
On this date events include 1910 Blanche S. Scott as first woman to solo a plane in Fort Wayne Indiana at 12 feet. 1915 large New York Fifth Avenue suffrage parade. 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf begins with Allied victory. 1973 Nixon turns over tapes to Judge Sirica. 1983 Beirut truck bombing kills 241 mostly Marines. 1995 Yolanda Saldivar convicted in Selena murder. 2006 Enron CEO Skilling sentenced to 24 years four months. later reduced and released to a halfway house in 2018. Thought for Today urges authenticity.
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Blanche S. Scott
Fort Wayne
Ind
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Leyte Gulf
Richard Nixon
White House
Watergate
John J. Sirica
U.S
Beirut International
Lebanon
Houston
Yolanda Saldivar
Selena
Saldivar
Enron
Jeffrey Skilling
Skilling
Students urge Baytown move of USS Texas to Ashbel Smith
Baytown students at Ashbel Smith Elementary pen letters urging the USS Texas be brought to Baytown. They say it would boost learning about history, attract visitors, raise funds for schools, and create more field trips and community benefits. Voices include Crystal, Thomas, Giovanni, Juan, Itzel, and others advocating the move.
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Baytown
Ashbel Smith Elementary School
Texas
Crystal
Giovanni
Itzelf
Stewart Heights: A Short-Lived Baytown Incorporated Past
Baytown history recalls Stewart Heights as one of four towns forming today’s Baytown. Incorporated May 1928 after Roten and Pringle subdivision growth, it dissolved in 1940 amid annexation talks with Goose Creek. Mayors included Hafer and Cloud. key events covered water, gas, a sawmill, and paving plans.
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Baytown
Goose Creek
Pelly
Stewart Heights
Alma Stewart
Cedar Bayou
Elijah D. Ellisor
Annie
H.G. Roten
T. N. Pringle
Rotan
Pringle
A. J. Rich
Jack Lindsay
North Main
Jessie Knowlton
John Martin
Samuel Turner
George W. Leavens
Harris County
Roten
John A. Hafer
Nolan Cloud
John G. Martin
Ferguson-Gloyd Water Company
Gulf Cities Natural Gas Company
J. N. Thornton
Goose Creek Building Company
Stewart Heights Lumber Company
Alamo
John Hafer
G.A. Hafer
J.P. Starling
Stewart Height
Houston Lighting
Cloud
North Main Street
Leavins Addition
Woodlawn
Jesse Knowlton
Pruett Street
Weickersheimer Court
Pruett
Weickersheimer Acres
Morrell Park
Avon Addition
Goose Creek City
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Thomas
USS
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Gaillard
Aengtin
Gamoel Turner
Pinetch
GodNe Foun
Stewart
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Chuck Chandler
Exxon
Chuck
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