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Jim Bowie Days filled with fun for the entire family

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By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Jim Bowie Days celebrates its 53rd year this past week with large crowds braving the humid and hot weather to enjoy all the rodeo action, parade, turtle races, pet parade and much more.
The final night of rodeo saw Faith Garrett, Saint Jo, crowned the 2019 Miss Jim Bowie Days. She was joined by Brooke Smith, Wichita Falls, who was named Little Miss JBD.
Garrett is a 2019 graduate of Saint Jo High School and a 19-year-old freshman at North Central Texas College where she is pursuing an associate degree in animal science and rides with the stock horse team. She is the daughter of Shane Garrett and Keysha Avens, Saint Jo.
Smith is the 11-year-old daughter of Casondra and Brian Smith of Wichita Falls. She is an eighth grader at Petrolia Consolidated Independent School District.
The crowning of the new rodeo royalty was just one of the highlights of the last night of rodeo action. See more results from the rodeo, mutton bustin’ and calf scrambles in today’s sports.

See all the results and photo coverage in the mid-week Bowie News.

The Jim Bowie Days Association board accepted a plaque from the United Professional Rodeo Association naming the Bowie rodeo 14th of 300 UPRA nationwide rodeos. (JBA photo)
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Bowie Council meets June 23

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The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on June 23.
The agenda includes both old and new business items.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will make his report on the 2026-27 budget process, bid opening for the Glenn Hills lift station on July 16 and the bid for Rock and Pillar repairs.
In new business a pair of planning and zoning committee recommendations for replats at 107 E. Nelson and 412 Green will be reviewed. An ordinance adopting an office of emergency management amending a present ordinance will be offered.
Old business will see the second reading of the pickleball court reservation fee ordinance and the ordinance prohibiting drilling and mining or the reopening of an abandoned well or mine in any public park in the city limits.

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City of Bowie reports heat advisory today

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A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.

Hear Audio Alert:https://hrpow.us/oeFZANN

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Sheriff confirms human remains found in Sunset area

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Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas has confirmed human skeletal remains were recovered on June 13 in the Sunset area, and they could possibly be those of a flight attendant believed to have been murdered almost a year ago in the Fort Worth.
The murder suspect, Dennis William Day, 66, admitted in June 2025 to strangling Rana Soluri, 47, an Envoy flight attendant who lived with Day during that last year. She was reported missing by a co-worker on June 11 and had not been seen or heard from since March 2025.
Day initially denied any involvement, but later admitted to the murder and indicated he dumped her body somewhere in the Montague County area. Lawmen have scoured the areas in questions in both Montague and Wise County, but found nothing.
Sheriff Thomas said on June 13 the SO received a call of possible skeletal remains in the Brushy Creek area north of Poss Dyer Lane on Farm-to-Market 1749. A deputy went to the scene and confirmed it was human remains.
Investigators responded and kept the scene secure overnight until staff from the University of North Texas Forensic Anthropology Center could arrive and made the recovery on June 14. A Texas Ranger and staff from the Fort Worth Police Department also were on scene.
“There is no determination made yet on how long it has been there,” said Thomas. “The anthropologist was pleased to recover most of the skeleton in these conditions. Heavy rains previously made the past searches difficult. We are working jointly with Fort Worth to make an identification and if it is the victim in their homicide.”

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