NEWS

Trustees from the Montague County Jail were busy this week helping put out rip-rap rock along a portion of the courthouse lawn above the retaining wall. Retired county road hand Frank Glass supervised the work […]

Bowie’s first town hall meeting in many years saw nearly 100 people attending as Mayor Larry Slack touched on everything from electric power alternatives to possible locations for a new city complex. There were 97 […]

With one lone dissenting vote, the Bowie City Council Tuesday adopted the 2015 tax rate of .4945 cents per $100 in property value. This rate is .215 cents higher than the 2014 rate of .4730. […]

Montague County will operate with a 2015-16 budget totaling $9,650,032 and with a tax rate of .4154 cents per $100 in property value. The commissioner’s court met in called session on Wednesday with the final […]

Montague County Sheriff Paul Cunningham reports an Internal Revenue Service phone scam has made its way into the county. In this scam, callers threaten residents with possible action by the IRS unless they receive personal […]

Officials with the Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District gave a quarterly update to the Montague County Commissioner’s Court Monday noting work in well monitoring and registration, as well as education. Doug Shaw, general manager, spoke […]

Voters in the Bowie and Gold-Burg Independent School Districts will go to the polls on Nov. 3 and decide on the creation of a hospital tax district in the Bowie area. On Monday Montague County […]

A total of 19 people received indictments from the Montague County Grand Jury as the panel met for its September session on Monday. District Attorney Paige Williams said two of the indictments were sealed awaiting […]