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Bowie City Council debates closing a small portion of road at request of WL Plastics

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After much debate, the Bowie City Council voted 6-1 to close a small portion of Old Wise Road to allow WL Plastics to secure its property with new fencing and use it as a private drive.

Tuesday night, the planning and zoning commission recommended approval of the two requests from WL Plastics; however, council members questioned if this change meets the fire code and if the city can give up its land. Jerry Rodgers, local manager of the Bowie plastic pipe plant, explained the requests. Item one: WL Plastics, 1110 Old Wise Road, to close .57 portion for the proposed use as a private drive.

Pictured: J.R. Rodgers, manager of WL Plastics, Bowie, and Janis Crawley, executive director of the Bowie Economic Development Corporation, talk with the Bowie City Council about a property request from WL Plastics. at Tuesday’s meeting. Read the full council story in the Saturday Bowie News. (Photo by Barbara Green)

 

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Montague County Animal Shelter taking shape, shoots for early 2025 opening

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The Montague County Animal Shelter is taking shape with a main kennel almost complete and a portable building place this past week to serve as an office.
It was 10 months ago the county commissioner’s court approved the project using some Senate Bill 22 grant funds in the sheriff’s office and county funds or the project. Sheriff Marshall Thomas included one new deputy position and a pickup for animal control in the grant budget.
The overall project was estimated to run anywhere from $185,000 to $200,000.
There are three animal shelters that operate in Montague County in Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo. Only Bowie is city operates, but all three operate with an active volunteer 501c3 group.

Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.

Pictured – HVAC was installed in the new animal shelter kennel building recently. (Courtesy photo)

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Bowie Council handles brief agenda of business

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By BARBARA GREEN
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It took members of the Bowie City Council less than 20 minutes to handle their brief agenda of business on Oct. 28.
There were infrastructure project reports, the quarterly hotel/motel tax report and resolutions connected to grant applications.
City Manager Bert Cunningham said he does not anticipate the contractor for the Nelson Street project to complete the remaining work by the Oct. 31 deadline. If that happens, the city will start assessing the $700 per day penalty allowed through the contract.
The nearly $3 million project hit the one-year mark, which also was the approximate completion time pending weather; however, MX Construction of McKinney has delayed completion of several areas and made errors that had to be corrected. The company also requested about one month ago “rain days,” which occurred early in the project.

Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.

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Rainfall gives Montague County a needed drink

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After nearly several months of virtually no significant rainfall and a growing drought, Montague County and North Texas finally got some decent rainfall during the weekend and on Monday.
While thunderstorms threatened Saturday heavy thunder and wind did not come until Sunday night. Monday morning there was a severe thunderstorm warning and a tornado watch for the county, and both were cancelled late in the morning.
There was no damage reported to local officials around Montague County, with some reports of low-lying flooding and some downed limbs.
Clay County Judge Mike Campbell reported Sunday “a small, but powerful tornado,” hit an area from Farm-to-Market Road 171 to Carpenter Road near Byers.
Rainfall reports in the county range from eight inches around Nocona and 5 inches in Bowie.

Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.

This home in the Byers area saw the roof torn off in Sunday’s storm. (Courtesy photo)
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