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Council OKs alcohol for Long Neck Fest
to sign up to speak on the issue.
Prior to the changes, it would
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McNair residents discuss crime, hear bond pitch
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City plans to advertise
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Highlands chamber,
Garcia back bond
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BAYTOWN — Allowing
alcohol at the Long Neck
Festival sailed past City
Council Thursday, with no
votes against and little opposi-
tion from citizens.
Council voted 6-0 on all four
She also said the $2 million drainage
project is under way and that the next
£ t I found that some
streets that I though were
clearly in bad shape had
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Don Murray
Dist. 4 Councilman
listed citywide, said the data
would be useful.
Councilman Don Murray
By MEREDITH DARNELL
The Baytown Sun
By KRISTOPHER BANKS
The Baytown Sun
BAYTOWN —1
states will learn all about
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
Northwest corner
of Hwy 90 ,
at FM 2100
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By KRISTOPHER BANINS
The Baytown Sun
On the Net:
www.longneckfestival.com
Baytown Sun photo/Albert Estrada
Lee Ganders second baseman Spenser Dennis tags out a Nederland runner Thursday night during the Deer Park tournament. The
Ganders scored six runs in the final inning to top Nederland 7-6, and get a split in their tournament games Thursday. Sterling and
Barbers Hill varsity squads also competed in tournaments Thursday. STORY PAGE 7
and gets very crowded around
tax time.
Garcia said the planned
to to it
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City Manager Gary Jackson and testinLT’ with ,he remaining
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al construction.
Jackson suggested that
Council members make their
recommendations of streets to
city staff by April 14.
Mayor
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Harris County plans to build new Highlands library
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Creek bohS referendum up for Highlands,” she said. about the prospect. The
election April 2. The county is discussing buy- Highlands Pilot Club, of which
John ..
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it This job is not just about roads and bridges, like it
was, it’s about roads and bridges to the future. 99
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Council on Thursday unani- casj |,y pox Sports Southwest,
mously approved spending up which is carrie(j in Texas,
to $28,000 in hotel occupancy Louisiana, Oklahoma, New
tax funds for advertising during Mexico and Arkansas.
the telecast of this year’s Bayou with no discussion, Council
Bowl.
The match-up between the
The town hall meeting hosted by the
Concerned Citizens of McNair Thursday
started with a bond presentation and
ended with residents expressing their
^concerns about the drug problems in the
area and what they say is a lack of police
enforcement.
being tired,” said a concerned McNair always be better.
■Resident of 55 years who did not want to j
as one of those events.
___ The Long Neck Festival is in
rules against alcohol and city its first year. It is scheduled for
ordinance prohibit the posses- ^ay 14-15.
sion and consumption of alco- _ Bobby
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sell beer at both of the festival’s designate events at city parks at
two venues, the Eddie V Gray which alcohol is allowed. The
Wetlands Center and the Long Neck Festival also
Baytown Nature Center. The became the first one designated
nature center is governed by a
set of city rules that includes
sion and consumption of alco- Bobby Lintelman, of
hoi on city parks. The wetlands Baytown, was the. only citizen
center is designated as a park. ,0 s'8n UP,0 spe^ 0,1 the issue.
Under the new ordinance,
HIGHLANDS — Harris
County Commissioner Sylvia
Garcia announced plans to
build a new, larger library in
best high school senior football
players in Southeast Texas and
Louisiana will celebrate its third
People in Jive year at stallworth Stadium on
” “~c-t ju|y 11 as jn the previous two
Baytown this smnmer after City yearSi the game wi|| broad.
‘ cast by Fox Sports Southwest,
the no-nothings.... My children can’t go the J.D Walker Community Center,
outside.... Our children don’t have street
lights out here.”
Representatives from the Precinct 3 project will be lights on the jogging trail.
Constables office, County Commissioner Construction for a 38-car parking lot at
Sylvia Garcia’s office and the water dis- * the community center is in progress and
trict spoke to concerned residents. Thompson Road will be turning into a
Chief Deputy David Franklin with the four-lane road.
Goose Creek Superintendent Barbara
BAYTOWN - City Council
discussed the process by which
they will decide on streets to be
repaired in the fourth year of the
city’s five-year. $20 million
street bond project during their
Thursday workshop session.
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gave Council an updated listing $3.2 million going toward actu-
of proposed streets an engineer- '
ing firm ranked by the streets'
Pavement Condition Index, or
PCI,# a. measurement of the
streets’ quality.
Unlike previous rankings, . ^oth Mayor (
which divided the streets by Mundinger and District 3
Council district, the new infer- Councilwoman Sheryl Ward,
mation showed every street in who in a previous meeting,
the city being considered for asked for the information to be
repair.
Jackson reiterated that the
city can spend about $4 million
per year, $800,000 of which
goes toward engineering’design
VOLUTION
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Council-designated events and
on Texas Avenue and two that
pertained specifically to the
Long Neck Festival.
Councilman Ronnie Anderson
Baytown Sun photo/Ken Fountain motions that related to alcohol was not present.
BAYTOWN RESIDENT Bobby Lintelman, right, addresses City Council sales: two encompassing ordi-
Thursday encouraging them not to allow alcohol at the festival. nances that allow alcohol at have been illegal for vendors to City Council may individually
Michalsky is an officer, has
been lobbying for a.new library.
“They’ve stayed on top of it,
and really stayed on top of
Sylvia Garcia,” she said.
The current county library
Garcia, speaking at the ing a property on Main Street at branch in Highlands, the
Chamber’s luncheon, said she College Street, near Highlands Stratford Branch, is too small
promised Chamber president Elementary, with the. Goose
Roy Elliott’s 9-year-old daugh- Creek school district, sne’said,
ter Destenee a new library, and Goose Creek currently owns the .
Highlands Thursday. She and planned to deliver. property. There are nd budget library reflects the changing
role of county government.
Betty Michalsky, director of “This job is not just about ’■ - Baytown Sun photo/By Kristopher Banks
COUNTY COMMISSIONER Sylvia Garcia talks with Cameron Elliott,
son of Highlands Chamber of Commerce president Roy Elliott, center,
the Highlands Chamber of ■ “I promised her that by the estimates yet. role of county government.
Commerce also announced time she goes to middle school, Betty Michalsky, director of j"*' " j"** “f
endorsements of the Goose she will have a larger library in the Chamber, said she is excited roads and bridges, like it was,
See HIGHLANDS on Page 10 Ln Highlands Thursday.
Constable’s Office told residents that Goose Creek Superintendent Barbara
“We are tired and sick and tired of enforcement was being done, but could Sultis spoke about the $240 million bond
being tired,” said a concerned McNair always be better. issue, as we]] as Mike Wilson of the
.Resident of 55 years who did not want to A representative from Garcia’s office Friends of Goose Creek Schools,
.’be identified. “We are citizens that go to told residents that the county submitted
iwork and pay our taxes. The problem is paperwork to have a SprayPark built at
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 97, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 2005, newspaper, March 11, 2005; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1191797/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.