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Columns

• Owens saw the Goose Creek light in WWII 10-2-19
• Some like it hot (not really) 7-14-19
• We could dream, couldn't we? 2-2-19
• Memories of Preston L. Pendergrass 1-16-19
• Kids 1-2-19
• Cousins 9-9-18
• Like Zelig, Ashbel Smith was everywhere 4-3-18
• Summer of '52 at The Baytown Sun 2-3-18
• The cat who came in from the cold 1-14-17
• Baytown Sun Roots 1-1-18
• Newshounds/Chowhounds 12-18-17
• Children's Meds 10-1-17
• Talking toddler in grocery cart 9-2-17
• Alcalde, not alcade 8-3-17
• Walking 7-16-17
• Boat races in bay area go back to the 1800s 7-1-17
• Sayings 5-23-17
• Man and wife without a country 5-3-17
• Not a happy camper in Angelina County 4-17-17
• Nurses Uniforms 4-3-17
• Lynchburg Ferry: Baytown had it first 3-1-17
• Ups and downs of write-ups 10-4-16
• Jed and Jude 7-23-16
• From Boom Town to Baytown 7-1-16
• Keeping Up with the Anson Joneses 6-9-16
• All's swell that ends well 5-14-16
• Face Blindness 4-29-15
• Three Civil War vets were doctors in Baytown area 4-1-16
• The FBI and I 2-15-16
• Feeling all closed in 1-6-16
• Welcome to our world of words 12-5-15
• There's something about 'merry' 11-13-15
• And the bands played on at Sylvan 10-24-15
• Balinese Room 10-4-15
• Bandit's bad baby brother 9-20-15
• USS Indianapolis Survivor Lindsey Wilcox 9-8-15
• USS Indianapolis sank 70 years ago 8-22-15
• Nagasaki Bombardier 8-9-15
• Outlaw was crazy like a fox 7-15-15
• Getting 'care-less' with words 7-8-15
• And 'sew' it went 7-1-15
• Friendships in Texas 6-24-15
• Room with a 'Boo!' 6-13 15
• The Yellow Rose 6-2-15
• Safe haven in a hurricane 5-25-15
• More about Smith Point murder case 5-18-15
• The making of a Texas president 5-10-15
• Harris County judges 5-2-15
• When Harvey met Santa Anna 4-13-15
• Ye Olde Houston Press 3-30-15
• Now hear this 3-8-15
• Older and Wider 2-8-15
• Blunders, bloopers and boo-boos 1-24-15
• The death of a subdivision 12-8-14
• Different kind of D 11-14-14
• Let it beeeeeeee 11-1-14
• Gail Borden - Part II 10-1-14
• Gail Borden 9-1-14
• Wallisville Goes Hog Wild 8-4-14
• The good doctor from Canada 7-5-14
• William Fairfax Gray 6-11-14
• Christ Church Cathedral in Houston 6-11-14
• The Lone Star and Charles Zanco 5-23-14
• Father Muldoon forgotten hero of Texas history 5-1-14
• Big Sam vs. Little Davey in Hot Election, 1841 4-7-14
• From High School Senior to Senior Citizen 3-16-14
• Sam�s Kids - the Houston Eight 1-5-14
• The Cane Mutiny 10-14-13
• Double Takes on Names 9-17-13
  Emily West and Emily West.
• Be it ever so �umble 8-17-13
• Close encounters of the canned kind 7-21-13
• Ghost Story 6-10-13
• Mrs. Anson Jones 4-7-13
• Andy�s Antics in Austin 2-21-13
• French Connection 2-3-13
• Name That Lake 1-5-13
• Cliff notes on �Perils of Nyoka� 12-17-12
• Hughes Who in Oil Field 12-2-12
• Judge Isaac Moreland Interviewed 10-15-12
• La Tipica 10-2-12
• Ashbel Smith's Foster Daughter 9-14-12
• Liberty treated POWs well in 1830s and 1940s 9-1-12
• David Levi Kokernot 8-15-12
• Baytown is so refined 8-3-12
• Rationing during WWII - How sweet it wasn't 7-20-12
• Island Hogs a Lot of History 7-1-12
• 1943 Secret Storm 6-17-12
• Magnolia Gardens 6-2-12
• Retired Seed Company Exec Remembers Mentor 4-1-12
• Faithful wife, dutiful daughter 3-2-12
• Learning news lingo as 2nd language 2-1-12
• Baytown's Post Office Mural 1-9-12
• �Pistol Packin Mama� right on target 12-23-11

Wanda Orton

Wanda Orton is a retired managing editor of the Baytown Sun. A BiB (born in Baytown), she is also a 7th Generation Texan and a Daughter of the Republic of Texas (Wilhelm Keidel Chapter). Her newspaper career began with the Baytown Sun when she was still attending Baytown�s Robert E, Lee High School. She attended classes at Baytown�s own Lee College before transferring to the University of Houston, graduating with a BA in English. She currently lives in Fredericksburg.