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Baytown council campaigns head to runoffs
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■ Districts 5,6 to be decided Dec. 12;
city’s special taxing entities renewed
After a long, grueling Election Night,
four of the six candidates for Baytown
council seats are still alive in the race and
will now head to a runoff election set for
A new junior school is driv-
ing the start of another rezoning
process at Goose Creek CISD as
board members heard a proposed
for every traditional high school,
two junior schools. There is an
Plans are underway for the 2021
Bayou Bowl after taking a COVID-19-
forced hiatus this past summer. Those
plans include a return to Baytown.
Bayou Bowl organizer and fonner
Baytown Lee head coach Dick Olin said
the game will return to its birthplace
with plans to play the game June 13 at
Stall worth Stadium. The game, which is
sponsored by the Greater Houston Foot-
Dec. 12.
In the races
for District 5
and 6, the top
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U.S. Senate
Republican John Cornyn
will continue to represent
Texas in the U.S. Senate
after receiving 54% of the
vote. Democratic challeng-
er M.J. Hegar took 44% of
the vote, with the remain-
der split between Kerry
Douglas McKennon (Lib-
ertarian), David B. Collins
(Green Party) and Ricardo
Turullols-Bonilla.
and district officials on how to
proceed.
“For this specific purpose we
are rezoning for E.F. Green Junior
School, and by rezoning, it will
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you with all joy and peace
as you trust in him, so that
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Holy Spirit. - Romans 15:13
OBITUARIES
• Brenda Joyce Houska
• Jimmie Lee Hill Fayle
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BY MATT HOLLIS
matt.hollis@baytownsun.com
BY MATT HOLLIS
matt.hollis@baytownsun.com
Texas
Incumbents win
reelection handily
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BY MICHAEL PINEDA
michael.pineda@baytownsun.com
The Baytown area’s rep-
resentation in the U.S. and
Texas legislatures will look
familiar for the next legisla-
tive sessions as incumbents
avoided being collateral
damage to the country’s
political turmoil.
Rep. Mary Ann Perez,
who represents part of
Baytown, had the closest
race among local incum-
bents and still won with
a comfortable 56% of the
vote.
1,049 total votes, or 39.42%, and Powell
with 1,172 votes, or 44.04%. These in-
clude absentee, early voting, and Election
Day votes.
A third District 5 candidate, Ashley
Cressy, received a total of 440 votes or
16.54%.
In the unofficial vote count for District
6, Lester netted 1,168 votes, or 39.74%,
while Cummings received 34.84% or
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ball Coaches Association, was sched-
uled to be played at the Berry Center in
the Cy-Fair school district but the game
failed to come to fruition. The UIL can-
celed all spring sports and Bayou Bowl
organizers followed suit.
Olin said the game flips between the
east side and west side, and this is the
east side’s year.
“We will need to work out the logis-
tics with the new athletic director Lee
U.S. House
U.S. Representative Bri-
an Babin, whose District
36 represents all of the
Baytown area as well as
much of southeast Texas,
will be returning to Wash-
ington after winning a
four-way race with nearly
SEE GOP • PAGE 9
are able to minimize or reduce the
amount of disruption when there
is a transition period.”
Bolinger, along with Christi
Leath, director of advanced aca-
demics and special projects, said
they are taking everything into
account for rezoning.
“In general, our main objectives
include rezoning in a way that
supports effective use of school
SEE REZONE • PAGE 9
“Some junior schools are over
capacity, so E.F. Green will help
solve that issue,” he said. “And
opportunity to have a pure feeder not only for the educational
pattern, where two junior schools needs of students, but to develop
will feed into one high school so a grandfathering process, so we
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ent and Jacob
Powell, will
face off while
Susan Cum-
mings and
Mike Lester
will contest
the District 6
two candidates advanced to the runoff as seat.
no one reached a 50% majority. The unofficial vote count, according
Two District 5 candidates, Thomas Par- to Harrisvotes.com, shows Parent with
Former VP nears victory, Trump cries foul
THE ASSOCIATEB PRESS State away from crossing the threshold and be- It was a stark contrast to Trump, who on
Joe Biden won the battleground prizes of coming president-elect. Wednesday falsely proclaimed that he had
Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday, re- Biden, who has received more than 71 mil- won the election, even though millions of
claiming a key part of the “blue wall” that lion votes, the most in history, was joined by votes remained uncounted and the race was
slipped away from Democrats four years ago his running mate Kamala Harris at an afternoon far from over.
and dramatically narrowing President Donald news conference and said he now expected to The Associated Press called Wisconsin for
Tramp’s pathway to reelection. win the presidency, though he stopped short of Biden after election official8 in the state said
A full day after Election Day, neither can- outright declaring victory. all outstanding ballots had been counted, save
didate had cleared the 270 Electoral College “I will govern as an American president,” fora few hundredin one township and an ex-
votes needed to win the White House. But Biden said. ’’There will be no red states and pec e sma num er 0 provisiona v0 es-
Biden’s victories in the Great Lakes states left blue states when we win. Just the United States rumP s campaign reques e a recoun ,
him at 264, meaning he was one battleground of America.” SEE BRINK • PAGE 9
alter the attendance zones for sev- that students that go to the same
eral other junior schools as well,” junior school campus will see
Matt Bolinger, executive director their peers at the same high school
of strategic planning and innova- at the traditional level.”
tion, said. “And another goal is Bolinger said the numbers
to establish a pure feeder pattern should also align to match cam-
at the secondary level. With a pus capacity.
he Haptomon
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Harris County Public off of Lee Drive.
Health will offer free drive-
through COVID- 19 testing El Paso crisis
8 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday and
Wednesday in the Lee Col- El Paso hospitals are near
lege Performing Arts Cen- a “breaking point” as 3,100
ter parking lot at the corner new cases of the coronavi-
of West Texas Avenue and rus were reported Wednes-
Market Street. day, an official said.
You do not need to regis- “Hospitalizations con-
ter in advance. No proof of tinue to rise sharply and
insurance or citizenship is ---------------------------
required. SEE COVID • PAGE 3
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