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4 days ago | 
baytownsun.com | Dave Rogers
Barbers Hill ISD's school board voted 6-0 Monday night to approve an interlocal agreement with Lee College that sets the terms between the two for opening a Lee College branch campus in Mont Belvieu. The Lee College Board of Regents is set to vote on the same agreement Wednesday do. Once they do, BHISD can begin construction on its Education Center to house the college's classes. kAmp=D@ 2E |@?52J ?:89EVD >66E:?8[ E96 D49@@= 3@2C5 2AAC@G65 2 a_ad\ae 5:DEC:4E 3F586E 2?E:4:A2E:?8 S`ce]d >:==:@? :?
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4 days ago | 
baytownsun.com | Dave Rogers
Mark and Debbie Himsel donated $4,100 to ExxonMobil’s local charities for the right to push the plunger that began the final act for what was originally known as the Humble Oil Baytown Refinery Main Office Building. But the giving didn’t stop there for the Lee College regent and his wife, a retired Baytown school teacher. kA 4=2DDlQAbQm“|2C< 82G6 >6 2 42== 2?5 D2:5[ ‘(92E 5@ J@F E9:?< 23@FE 2 D49@=2CD9:A[ D@>6E9:?8 7@C E96 =6824J @7 E9:D 3F:=5:?8 E@ =:G6 @?n’” #636442 |2E=@4<[ tII@?|@3:=’D q2JE@H?
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1 week ago | 
baytownsun.com | Dave Rogers
“Thanks for the memories!”With a push of the plunger and that shouted cry, Debbie Himsel did her part to make Baytown’s skyline a lot flatter. kAmq67@C6 J@F 4@F=5 4@F?E E@ `d[ E96 E2==6DE 3F:=5:?8 :? q2JE@H? D:?46 `hf`[ tII@?|@3:=’D |2:? ~77:46 qF:=5:?8[ H2D 7=2EE6?65 3J 2 56>@=:E:@?
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1 week ago | 
baytownsun.com | Dave Rogers
The plane that crashed into the woods near Hankamer in May fell nose-first from more than 4,000 feet of altitude at a speed of 276 miles per hour. A preliminary report issued by the National Transportation Safety Board said the tail section of the four-seater Rockwell Commander was all of the fuselage remaining above ground when searchers located the wreckage on May 25.
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2 weeks ago | 
baytownsun.com | Dave Rogers
Located next to where Goose Creek flows into Tabbs Bay on its way to Galveston Bay, there is water, water everywhere around the tank farm at Trek Resources. But not a drop to put out a fire. kA 4=2DDlQAbQmq2JE@H? u:C6 s6A2CE>6?E A6CD@??6= 42==65 @FE 62C=J %9FCD52J >@C?:?8 ?62C E96 ac__ 3=@4< @7 r2FD6H2J #@25 ?@E @?=J 7@F?5 >F=E:A=6 A6EC@=6F> E2?<D 23=2K6 :?
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2 weeks ago | 
baytownsun.com | Dave Rogers
James Lawson, a Methodist minister who learned Gandhi’s principles of nonviolence during a mid-1950s mission trip to India, was an early adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr., and a leading civil rights leader alongside MLK. The founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and mentor to a young John Lewis, the future U.S. Congressman, Lawson was even mentioned by MLK as one of the “noble men” in his “Mountaintop” speech given the night before King’s assassination in Memphis.
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2 weeks ago | 
baytownsun.com | Dave Rogers
When it comes to logistics, the folks at Trans Global Supply pretty much wrote the book. Fifty years ago, brothers Bill and Dick Scott started their own rail maintenance business, Econo-Rail, in Port Arthur with just $3,500 and a pickup truck. But the business just kept expanding, into in-plant switching and terminal operations and eventually building and maintaining more than 30 railroad terminals. kA 4=2DDlQAbQmxE 492?865 :ED ?2>6 2=@?8 E96 H2J 2?5 25565 2 ?6H 86?6C2E:@?
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3 weeks ago | 
baytownsun.com | Dave Rogers
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked the U.S. at Pearl Harbor, “a day that will live in infamy.”But June 6, 1944 “was the day America saved the world.”kA 4=2DDlQAbQm{66 r@==686’D $EF t5H2C5D D2:5 96 E62496D 9:D p>6C:42? 9:DE@CJ DEF56?ED 6I24E=J E92E 23@FE s\s2J[ H96? >@C6 E92? `d_[___ p>6C:42?[ qC:E:D9 2?5 r2?25:2? EC@@AD =2?565 @? 7:G6 362496D :? v6C>2?\4@?EC@==65 uC2?46]k^AmkA 4=2DDlQAbQm%96 =2?5:?8 :? }@C>2?5J E92E :?G@=G65 >@C6 E92?
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3 weeks ago | 
baytownsun.com | Dave Rogers
A deeper look shows not two, but three and as many as four of the 24 clean energy projects originated by Joe Biden’s Administration defunded last week by the Trump Administration would have provided construction and permanent jobs in Baytown and west Chambers County. A plant to produce e-Methanol to provide clean power for boats and ships that was likely to land on the banks of Cedar Bayou had a $99 million grant clawed back Friday. kA 4=2DDlQAbQmxE AC@>:D65 fd_ 4@?DECF4E:@?
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4 weeks ago | 
baytownsun.com | Dave Rogers
It’s been a long time since I was in school. At first, all my classmates were white like me. I learned some cool things and met some special people when schools integrated midway through my “Wonder Years.”My world expanded WAY more when I went to college. There were people of all races and beliefs and many, many nationalities sharing space and ideas with me. We held hands across America and taught the world to sing. kA 4=2DDlQA`Qm%96D6 52JD[ 2 >:?@C:EJ @7 E96 A@AF=2E:@?
