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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2021
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Feb. 14.
Matt Bolinger, the district’s
Executive Director of Strategic
Planning and Innovation, said
the district is providing the sur-
vey for citizens, staff and high
school students.
“This survey will allow indi-
viduals to provide input regard-
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Baytown Sun photo by Michael Pineda
Robert E. Lee High School cheerleaders show school spirit in the field house Wednesday afternoon prior to football
players Alex Moreno, Edgar Pulido and Christian Olige signing letters of intent to play college football. From left are
Mercilla Molina, Gabby Pena and Elyssa Hernandez. See story on Page 5.
District seeks input online through Feb. 14 summary of the committee meet-
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BY MATT HOLLIS
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tweaked to make
way for Green
BY MATT HOLLIS
matt.hollis@baytownsun.com
BY MARK FLEMING
mark.fleming@baytownsun.com
Power Ranger
to visit local
comic store
BY MARK FLEMING
mark.fleming@baytownsun.com
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Seven Baytown police officers were presented with the department’s
Life Saving Award for their response to the scene of a murder/suicide in
July. From left are Sgt. Aaron Crowell, CpI. Stuart LaGrone, Officer Eric
Filyaw, Sgt. Kevin Davis, Officer Thomas Brown and Officer Juan Barrera.
Online school
threat ruled
to be a hoax
A social media post mak-
ing potential threats against
several Goose Creek CISD
campuses was determined
to be a hoax following an
investigation.
The Goose Creek CISD
Police Department in con-
junction with the Baytown
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renaming. A fifth meeting date
has not been announced.
A final report is expected at the
end of the month.
So far, the committee has de-
veloped a pros/cons list for re-
naming or not renaming a facil-
ity. After the third meeting, the
group finished a survey to identi-
fy the pros and cons, and shared
the results at the fourth meeting.
SEE SURVEY • PAGE 3
Seven Baytown police officers
who responded to a murder/sui-
cide in July were awarded the de-
partments Life Saving Award.
The officers responded to Roll-
ingcreek Drive July 11 to a report
that a 52-year-old man had shot
two of his family members, assis-
tant police chief Eric Freed said.
“Facing the possibility of en-
countering the armed suspect, Sgt.
SEE AWARD • PAGE 10
STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
The number of people hospitalized with CO VID-19
in Texas has dipped below 11,000 for the first time
since late December.
The Texas Department of State Health Services on
Wednesday reported 10,827 hospitalizations. The state
had reported a record high of 14,218 hospitalized on
Jan. 11.
More than 37,650 people in Texas have died from
COVID-19, the third-highest death count in the U.S.,
according to data from researchers at Johns Hopkins
University.
Over the past two weeks, the rolling average number
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Starting today, the public can
sound off in the Goose Creek
CISD discussion about wheth-
er to rename Robert E. Lee
High School and possibly other
schools in an online survey.
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Texas officials report that more than 561,400 people Hospital. The clinics earned thumbs up from Chambers
in the state have been fully vaccinated and over 2 mil- Health staff members, from left Malinda Albritton, Jenifer
lion people have gotten at least one dose._____________ Bishop, Tonya Pagel, Tressa Jackson, Stacey Brown, Me-
SEE COVID • PAGE 9 lissa Cortez, Robert Meier and Kaye Cormier.
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Goose Creek CISD trust-
ees approved an attendance
zone for Edward Franklin
“E.F.” Green Junior School
Monday night.
The board gave Rezon-
ing Option B the green
light for the junior school
scheduled to open in Au-
gust. The vote also result-
ed in the reconfiguring of
attendance zones of the
other five junior schools.
Some students currently
attending Baytown, Cedar
Bayou, Gentry, Highlands
and Horace Mann junior
schools could be affected.
Matt Bolinger, executive
director of strategic plan-
ning & innovation, and
Christi Leath, advanced
academics and special proj-
ects director, shared how
they came to recommend-
ing the rezoning option.
Bolinger said concerning
the rezoning guidelines for
the district, they seek to be
smart and efficient with the
facilities and resources.
“Typically, this is the
result of overcrowding at
campuses,” Bolinger said.
“Or we are building schools
because we are at capacity
or near capacity.”
The rezoning also ad-
dressed new facilities, fu-
ture growth, and rational
boundaries, according to
Bolinger.
“We also rezone based
on the proximity from a
residence to a campus,”
he said. “We always keep
student’s best interests in
mind.”
Bolinger said the
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Sometimes life just requires a
superhero. One (or at least the
actor who plays one) is heading
for Baytown Saturday.
Actor John David Frank —
the Green Ranger from Mighty
Morphin Power Rangers — is on
a mission to protect a business
sector that’s important to him:
independent comics stores.
Frank will appear for auto-
graph signings and selfies at
noon Saturday at Alter Ego
SEE RANGER • PAGE 10
Afterward, the Goose Creek meetings. This final report will
CISD’s Facilities Names Com- also be made available to the
mittee will review the survey public,” Bolinger said.
data, discuss specific facilities The committee met Tuesday
in more depth, determine which for the fourth time since Nov. 30.
facilities, if any, should be rec- The 42-member committee was
ommended to the board for re- charged with providing recom-
naming, as well as recommend mendations to the Goose Creek
whether the board should take no CISD board of trustees regarding
action at this time, the policy for naming or renam-
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William Baker, 52, of
Baytown, was killed in a
traffic accident when the
truck he was driving left the
roadway and crashed into
a ditch near Goose Creek
Memorial High School
about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
According to a Harris
County Sheriff’s Office
statement, Baker was driv-
ing a 2007 Chevrolet Sil-
verado 1500 northbound on
North Main Street when he
drove off the roadway and
was ejected from the vehi-
cle.
Evidence on his vehicle
led investigators to believe
another vehicle may have
been involved in the crash,
the sheriff’s office state-
ment said.
Baker was taken to a
hospital where he was pro-
nounced dead.
The crash is under inves-
tigation.
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 2021, newspaper, February 4, 2021; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1468330/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.