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Agency: Crosby plant
lacked plan for floods
the fire that occurred at the Arkema plant ing the report, CSB Chairperson Vanessa
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U.S. forecasters predict 10-16
tropical storms in active season
Volunteers sought to help
place flags on vets’ graves
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Hundreds of American
Flags will mark the graves
of military veterans ahead
of Memorial Day, but ser-
vice groups need help hon-
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board re-
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season produces 12 named stonns, of which six be-
come hurricanes, including three major hurricanes.
“There are no strong climate signals saying it’s go-
place hundreds of flags at
veteran gravesites at Cedar
Crest Cemetery, 3010 Fer-
ry Road, and at Earthman
Memory Gardens Ceme-
tery, 8624 Garth Road.
The American Legion
will place between 400
on Crosby after Hurricane Harvey.
In the days leading up to the incident,
an unprecedented amount of rain fell at
the plant because of Hurricane Harvey,
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Allen Sutherland answered questions for
the press.
causing equipment to flood and fail. As
a result, chemicals stored at the plant de-
composed and burned, releasing fumes
and smoke into the air.
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weak,” said Gerry Bell, the lead hurricane forecaster at
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center.
In the short tenn, the National Hurricane Center said
Thursday a mass of low pressure in the western Ca-
ribbean was becoming better defined and likely would
become a subtropical or tropical depression by late Sat-
urday.
The system currently off the southeastern Yucatan
Peninsula was expected to move northward. Heavy
in pool
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For many years, graduating students from Robert E. Lee, Ross S. Sterling and more recently Goose Creek Memorial
high schools have made a trip to an elementary school for a “Grad Walk.” They walk down the hallways lined with el-
ementary students, high-fiving them along the way. This is a way for the elementary students to feel the pride and joy
of graduating from school. Ross S. Sterling senior Paige Smith and Goose Creek Memorial senior Kendall Haywood
high five Crockett Elementary students during the Grad Walk.
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The seventh angel
sounded his trumpet, and
there were loud voices in
heaven, which said:"The
kingdom of the world
has become the kingdom
of our Lord and of his
Messiah, and he will reign
for ever and ever."
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This Monday, communities across
the nation will honor the brave men
and women of the United States Armed
Forces who have sacrificed their lives in
the line of duty.
Several organizations around town
will observe their sacrifices on Memori-
al Day Monday.
In Baytown, the city will honor sol-
diers at Veterans Memorial Plaza at Bi-
centennial Park, 1001 Market Street.
The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m.
“The ceremony is for veterans who
gave the ultimate sacrifice to our coun-
Boy, 6,
drowns
Pirates Bay and
Calypso Cove open
on Memorial Day
While city offices, in-
cluding those at City Hall,
Municipal Court and Util-
ity Billing, will be closed
Monday in observance of
Memorial Day, city parks
including Pirates Bay Wa-
terpark will remain open.
Pirates Bay and Calypso
Cove will be open from 10
a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday. City
parks, including all spray
parks, the Baytown Nature
Center and skate parks will
also remain open.
For more information,
visit www.Baytown.org.
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A Houston man who threatened
to bum a cashier alive, and ex-
changed gunfire with Baytown po-
lice was sentenced to 99 years in
prison Thursday.
“This was about as brutal a rob-
bery as there can be,” Asst. Dis-
try,” said Jerry Johnson, master of cere-
monies of the Baytown event. “Veterans
Day is to celebrate all veterans in our na-
tion while Memorial Day is specifically
to honor the ones who were killed in ac-
tion or otherwise still missing in action.”
The service will start with the posting
of the colors by the Baytown Veterans
Honor Guard followed by a perfor-
mance of the National Anthem by Haley
and Michael Toppeto of Sea Scout Ship
93.
Lilly Morgan will recite the Pledge of
Allegiance, followed by an invocation
given by Donald Cunningham.
trict Attorney Joshua Raygor said.
“Even the defendant later conced-
ed that his actions were barbaric.”
Following a three-day trial, a
jury convicted Terrence Dwayne
Small, 49, of convicted of aggra-
vated robbery and aggravated as-
sault of a public servant.
Baytown police are still
investigating the drowning
death of a 6-year-old boy
that occurred Wednesday
afternoon.
According to police, two
unsupervised children, an
8-year-old girl and 6-year-
old boy, wandered away
from an adjacent apartment
complex to the Avalon Bay
Apartment complex pool.
With several other kids
already at the pool the two
children climbed over the
fence and got in. When the
other children left, the two
kids stayed and played in
the pool unsupervised for
several minutes before the
two jumped in the deep
end. The two quickly began
having trouble as neither
one knew how to swim.
Lt. Steve Dorris said an
employee at the complex
and a resident noticed the
children in distress and
jumped in to save them,
pulling them out of the pool
and began life saving mea-
sures.
When police arrived, an
adult was perfonning CPR
on the male. The life-sav-
ing measures were applied
to the boy until EMS ar-
rived.
“Although the female
was responsive, the male
was not and therefore both
were flown to Hennan Hos-
pital in Houston,” said Dor-
ris. “Unfortunately, despite
all of the efforts to save
him, the 6 year old boy did
not survive.”
The 8-year-old girl was
up and talking at the hospi-
tal, Dorris said.
During the investigation,
detectives learned that the
two children reside in the
adjacent complex with
their grandmother and the
mother of the 8-year-old.
Detectives are working to
detennine exactly why the
children were not being
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with flags. Crest, and volunteers are
At 8 a.m. Saturday, both needed. No RSVP is re-
the American Legion Post quired, and anyone want-
323 and the Veterans of ing to help can just show
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expect an active Atlantic hurricane season — an an-
nouncement that came as odds increased that the first
tropical weather system of the year was fonning in the
Gulf of Mexico.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration forecast calls for 10 to 16 named stonns, with
five to nine hurricanes. One to four hurricanes could
be “major” with sustained winds of at least 111 mph
(178 kph).
If that forecast holds, it would make for a near-nor-
mal or above-normal season. An average hurricane
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 103, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 2018, newspaper, May 25, 2018; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1451056/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.