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Birds on a 500-acre peninsula. A Cuban at 4 a.m. A free ferry that still crosses the ship channel. HERE is the daily index of Baytown, Texas.
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Beach City
Beach City is a city of about 3,200 on the northwest shore of Trinity Bay, incorporated in 1966 by a 103 to 4 vote to avoid annexation by Baytown.
Did you know?
Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District took its current shape in 1954, when the old Goose Creek ISD merged with Cedar Bayou ISD.
Source: gccisd.netHappening now
- Hooky Entertainment Baytown, TX Boo-Ling BashSat, 11 a.m. · Hooky Entertainment Baytown
- Girl Scouts Spooky-Sweet CelebrationSat, 3 p.m. · 100 Roseland Drive
- Parish Breakfast and Daughters of the King meetingSun, 11:10 a.m. · Trinity Episcopal Church
- Credit Recovery/EdgenuityMon, 3 p.m.
- STUCOMon, 3 p.m.
- Tween Board GamesMon, 5 p.m. · Sterling Municipal Library
Daily game · Word game
Unscramble the letters · A street name here
Correct.Not quite. The answer: Decker.
Did you know?
Part of what became Old River-Winfree once had a post office named Straddle, which operated only briefly from 1880 to 1881.
Source: cityofoldriverwinfree.comHappening now
- Parish Breakfast and Daughters of the King meetingSun, 11:10 a.m. · Trinity Episcopal Church
- Credit Recovery/EdgenuityMon, 3 p.m.
- STUCOMon, 3 p.m.
- Tween Board GamesMon, 5 p.m. · Sterling Municipal Library
- GCCISD Board MeetingMon, 6 p.m.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Bootcamp in La Porte, TXTue, 9 a.m. · 908 West G Street
Daily game · Guess the place
Which restaurant is on Market St?
Correct.Not quite. The answer: C&Ds. See it →
Today's edition
The Nature Center, season by season
Go early in summer and after cold fronts in winter.
Did you know?
To help pay for the new Baytown refinery, Humble Oil sold half its company stock to Standard Oil of New Jersey.
Source: atlas.thc.texas.govHappening now
- Credit Recovery/EdgenuityMon, 3 p.m.
- STUCOMon, 3 p.m.
- Tween Board GamesMon, 5 p.m. · Sterling Municipal Library
- GCCISD Board MeetingMon, 6 p.m.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification Bootcamp in La Porte, TXTue, 9 a.m. · 908 West G Street
- Mugs & MarkersTue, 10:30 a.m. · Stratford Branch Library
Daily game · Guess the place
Which place for kids is on N Main St?
Correct.Not quite. The answer: Wiz Kids Daycare and Academy. See it →
Did you know?
Today SH 146 runs 105.966 miles from Interstate 45 near Texas City north to U.S. 59 in Livingston, passing through Baytown and Mont Belvieu.
Source: wiki.aaroads.comHappening now
- Mugs & MarkersTue, 10:30 a.m. · Stratford Branch Library
- FASFA NightTue, 5:30 p.m.
- Girls Basketball: Ross S. Sterling High vs Hampshire FennettTue, 7 p.m. · Sterling Girls Gym
- Fire DrillWed, 9 a.m.
- University Transfer FairWed, 9 a.m. · Lee College
- PALS VisitWed, 10:20 a.m.
Daily game · Three questions
Fill in the missing number.
1. The San Jacinto Monument's shellstone walls are cut from Cordova Cream limestone that formed roughly ____ million years ago, tens of millions of years before Texas existed as a place name.
Correct.Not quite. The answer: 105. Source: sanjacinto-museum.org
2. Stallworth Stadium hosted the Bayou Bowl, an all-star game pitting Texas high school players against Louisiana's best, for the rivalry's original run from ____ to 2013.
Correct.Not quite. The answer: 2003. Source: bayoubowl.org
3. Texas recreational anglers landed more than ____ million pounds of saltwater finfish worth about $700 million dockside in a single recent year, much of it caught in bays like Galveston and Trinity.
Correct.Not quite. The answer: 12. Source: tshaonline.org
This week: Halloween + Dia de Muertos · Five things: Halloween Sat night, where to buy cempasuchil and pan de muerto, altars, clocks fall back Nov 1, early voting ends Oct 30
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Did you know · new at midnight
Barbers Hill High School's baseball and softball teams both captured Class 5A state championships in the same 2021 season.
Source: abc13.comStorm surge and Baytown: what the water did →What changed
- New ambulance in service: Baytown Fire put a new advanced life support ambulance, Medic 1, in service at Fire Station 1.
- Goose Creek CISD: the school board extended Superintendent Joe Rodriguez's contract through June 2029, with no raise.
- Barbers Hill ISD tax rate: the district kept its total tax rate at $1.0523 per $100 of value for 2026–27, the same as last year.
- Guns in city parks: the City's park rules now ban firing a gun in a park instead of banning carrying one.
- Police chief named to national group: Police Chief John Stringer was named to the International Association of Chiefs of Police's Policy Center Advisory Group, which reviews model policies for police departments.
- Closing: SpeakEasy Boutique, 300 W.
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Weekend
48 hours in Baytown
A dawn Nature Center, a downtown afternoon, a ferry, and the patio that earns the overnight.
- Basketball - Freshmen Girls vs. Scrimmage @ Hightower \(Away\)Barbers Hill High School · Sat 2:30 PM
- Trunk or Treat11747 FM 1960 Rd E, Suite A-100, Huffman, TX · Sat 3 PM
- 5th Grade Lunch OutingLittle Flock Baptist Church · Sun 12:15 PM
- Operation Christmas ChildVenue not published by organizer · Sun 8 AM
Sat
Crosby Middle School Region Band Auditions
Lady Falcon Basketball - West Fork / New Caney / Caney Creek / Huffman scrimmage
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School sports
Ross S. Sterling High School football vs United
- When
- Home · Thursday, Nov. 5 · 7 p.m.
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Remembering, on the bay
The marigolds show up in the grocery stores at the end of October, buckets of them by the door, orange as a road cone, smelling like the…
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