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Crockett rebirth afoot By HEATHER NOLAN

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Six Crockett Street venues that have been closed since July should reopen by October’s end, an entertainment district official said Tuesday. Art Hanson, Crockett Street Entertainment District’s property manager, said the district’s

developers are in the final stages of negotiation with the new tenants and plan to make an announcement about openings within a week. “They’re all going to be open real quick,” he said. “We’re trying to make it by Halloween.” A company already has REOPEN, page 6A

Developers, new tenants aim to reopen shuttered venues by Halloween

Math professor’s achievements add up

A resident wades past a roadside memorial dislodged by Hurricane Ike in Cuba on Tuesday. Javier Galeano/ The Associated Press

What if Ike is like Rita? Lesson of imprecise forecasting and the twists, turns of hurricanes: Don’t let your guard down By SARAH MOORE

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Southeast Texans might have Homecoming plans: 3A breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday ◆ Helicopters to remove Rita as they saw Hurricane Ike’s protrees that have clogged jected path move southward bayou since 2005: 5A along the Texas coast, but it’s ◆ Some high school foottoo soon to do the celebration ball games get moved to dance, meteorologists say. Thursday. Check the list: 1C After all, remember Hurricane Rita? “We’re not out of the woods be vigilant and be sure you have yet,” said Dennis Feltgen of the a hurricane plan.” National Hurricane Center. National Hurricane Center “Our standard line applies here: There’s no reason to panic. Just IKE, page 4A

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Retired associate math professor Richard L. Price arrives at the auditorium Lamar University named in his honor.

The sum of a man

LU honors an educator who had an exponential impact as he helped draw blacks into College of Engineering

By EMILY GUEVARA

THE ENTERPRISE

College professors are frequent targets of many a student’s gripes during late-night cram sessions, mid-term exams or even 50-minute class periods. But former Lamar University professor ONLINE Richard L. Price Video, photo was anything gallery of but the bad guy Richard Price: Thursday. Beaumont “I can’t Enterprise. explain to you com what he meant to the students he recruited,” said Lamar University graduate Dr. Tamerla Chavis, now a Beaumont neurosurgeon. “I can’t



During Tuesday’s dedication ceremony, Richard L. Price individually thanked the many teachers who influenced his academic life.

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Big city, SE Texas evac plans differ Area cleared by Houston call for mandatory exit doesn’t go as far inland

developed since then differ drastically. Houston’s disaster plan calls for mandatory evacuation of areas in the storm surge flood zones which stretch 30 to 40 By KYLE PEVETO miles inland. THE ENTERPRISE On the other hand, Orange, Jefferson and Hardin prefer The Golden Triangle and the evacuating entire counties, Houston area shared a messy even moving residents who live exodus during Hurricane Rita, but the evacuation policies EVAC, page 5A

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