The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 4, 2020 Page: 1 of 8
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Vol. 100, No. 25
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2020
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Baytown high schools united in new district
“It is good for us to be playing city schools again” - REL coach Tim Finn
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Chuck Putman and his wife, Linda, have run the Anderson Shoe and Saddle Repair store at 102 East Texas Avenue
since 1990. However, the couple is retiring and the store will be closing its doors sometime in February.
Texas Avenue store to close
Dorris said that police found items in-
side the van linking the pair to the rob-
bery. Those items included several hand-
guns and a rifle.
Dorris said the investigation was still
For the first time in history, the three
high schools of Goose Creek CISD will
compete in the same district in UIL com-
petition.
What was all but guaranteed became
official Monday morning with the release
OBITUARIES
• Judge Billy Floyd Coker
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Baytown Sun photo by Carol Skewes
Police stopped two men in connection with
a Monday morning robbery in a Baytown
apartment. The suspects were inside the
vehicle near the trash bin.
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BY MATT HOLLIS
matt.hollis@baytownsun.com
Covestro project
delay has no impact,
local govt’s say
BY MARK FLEMING
mark.fleming@baytownsun.com
BY MARK FLEMING
mark.fleming@baytownsun.com
BY MICHAEL PINEOA
michael.pineda@baytownsun.com
BY MARK FLEMING
mark.fleming@baytownsun.com
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Quick reporting of a robbery was com-
bined with quick police response and a
bit of luck to land two men in jail follow-
ing a Monday morning robbery.
Police received a call at 7:34 a.m.
reporting a robbery in progress at the
Lakes of Madera Apartments on West
Baker Road. Officers were told that two
men had robbed the occupants of an
apartment then fled in a tan van.
An arriving officer saw a vehicle
matching the description leaving the
apartment complex and stopped it in the
parking lot of the nearby Texaco store at
the comer of West Baker and North Main
Street.
The driver of the vehicle stayed in the
van, but the passenger got out of the van
carrying a handgun and fled. He was
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A fter 65 years of being a Texas Avenue staple,
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L store is closing down.
Chuck Putman and his wife, Linda, have run the shop
since 1990, when they bought it from Linda Putman’s
parents, Peggy and Wilmer Anderson. The Ander-
sons first opened the shop at 102 West Texas Avenue
in 1955. In 1960, they opened the shop at its current
location of 102 East Texas Avenue, right across from
Trophy Barber Shop.
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While Covestro’s MDI-500 expansion project is be-
ing delayed for up to two years, according to a compa-
ny announcement in January, local governments don’t
see great economic consequence to the delay.
Covestro announced in late 2018 that it was bringing
a $1.7 billion expansion project to its Baytown facili-
ty. It announced Jan. 21 that the project, which is not
yet under construction, would be delayed by 18 to 24
months due to “challenging market conditions.”
“The pause neither means a cancellation of the proj-
ect, nor a change in Covestro’s long-tenn growth strat-
egy,” the statement said.
“The company remains committed to Baytown as
it was surprising to see Galveston Ball and
Friendswood placed in the district but, “it
is what it is, and football is football.”
“I do think it is one of the most com-
petitive districts, everyone has a chance,”
Toomer said. “Everyone is in close prox-
imity to us which is good, and I think any-
one came out of the district.”
Toomer said there is no advantage drop-
ping down from Class 6A and Sterling
what my grandparents did. It has been a family thing,
and our customers were considered family. Baytown
has now grown by leaps and bounds, and most people
do not know we are closing.”
Chuck Putman said there is no exact day scheduled
to close the store.
“Probably toward the end of February,” he said.
“Right now, we are selling inventory at discounted
prices.”
Both Linda and Chuck Putman were asked what they
would miss the most after the store closes.
“Getting up every morning and waiting on the peo-
ple,” Linda Putman said. “A lot of customers are sad,
but happy for us since we are retiring. We made lots of
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The U.S. Coast Guard
and other agencies are
cleaning up a crude oil spill
in Tabbs Bay near Baytown
Monday.
About 630 gallons of
crude oil spilled into Tabbs
Bay Saturday, leaking from
a wellhead that has been
inactive since the 1980s,
according to the U.S. Coast
Guard.
Tabbs Bay is the bay at
the mouth of Goose Creek,
southeast of the Fred Hart-
man Bridge. Baytown bor-
ders it on Bayland Island
and along Evergreen Road.
Coast Guard Petty Of-
ficer Paige Hause told the
Associated Press the mile-
long spill is not considered
large, but the health and en-
vironmental impact has not
been determined.
The efforts seek to keep
oil out of the Houston Ship
Channel, which was closed
nearly a year ago after
flammable chemicals from
a petrochemical storage
facility seeped into what
is one of America’s busiest
shipping lanes.
Hause said an absorbent
material has been spread
along the shoreline and the
oil is being vacuumed from
the water.
“Approximately 700-feet
of boom has been deployed
in order to contain the spill
and prevent impact to the
Houston Ship Channel
and approximately 2,000-
feet of absorbent material
has been placed along the
shoreline,” USCG officials
wrote in a press release. “A
vacuum truck is also on-
scene being positioned to
begin recovering the crude
oil as it is discharged.”
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of the new districts for the 2020-21 and schools and three others. But as has been
2021-22 seasons in the UIL’s realignment with the UIL, it was not meant to be.
announcement. The three schools will Goose Creek will be in District 9-5A-
compete in two different districts, one for DI with Beaumont United, Friendswood,
football and the second district for all oth- Galveston Ball, La Porte and Port Arthur
er sports. Memorial. Sterling, Beaumont United
There had been hope the three Goose and La Porte are all dropping down from
Creek schools would get lumped in a Class 6A to 5A.
football district with two Houston ISD Sterling head coach Robert Toomer said
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repair almost anything that is leather or shoe or boot or good friends through the years.”
saddle-related and even some furniture,” Linda Putman Chuck Putman said he would miss the regular folks
said. “We sell western clothes like jeans, saddles, hats, they have come to know over the years.
belt buckles, belts, and spurs. And everything for the “Last week, there was a customer who told us he was
cowboy and the horse.” sad about us closing, and he said ‘I might never see you
Linda Putman said business is still going good after again,”’ Chuck Putman said. “I hadn’t thought of that
all of these years, but it is just time for her and her before, but it is something to think about.”
husband to retire. Linda Putman attributed the longevity of the store to
“We are both almost 72,” she said. “We had never their ability to provide a high level of service as well as
talked about retiring. He and I just always worked. But having knowledge of quality products they sell.
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 100, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 4, 2020, newspaper, February 4, 2020; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1468022/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.