NEWS
Fort Worth boy dies following ATV crash at RWP; arrests top 20 on varied complaints
A 10-year-old Fort Worth boy died Saturday after being involved in a serious all-terrain vehicle accident at a campsite on the Rednecks with Paychecks grounds.
Montague County Sheriff Paul Cunningham said the crash occurred at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at the height of the four-day spring break mudder’s festival. Located on FM 3206 outside Saint Jo, an estimated 10,000 people attended this year’s festival.
Nicholas Octavian Torres, a fifth grader at Westcliff Elementary in Fort Worth, was camping with his father and other friends at Rednecks.
Cunningham explained Torres was riding on the ATV with another boy, when they came out onto the dirt road from the nearby camping area running into the side of a moving pickup truck.
OTHER INCIDENTS
With so many people in one location it is a security maze for law enforcement, which is recruited from across the region to work the festival, along with local law enforcement.
Chief Deputy Mitchell said they have anywhere from 23 to 25 officers on site each day, with the highest amount for the last night of the festival on Saturday. He added each year the security process is improved upon to make it as safe an event as possible. This year there were a total of 20 arrests including two aggravated assaults on a peace office, plus a stabbing where the parties declined to prosecute. Read the full story in the mid-week News. Pictured, a Rednecks with Paychecks mud pit filled with mudders. (Photo by Shannon Gillette)
A Wednesday morning rollover on State Highway 59caused a vehicle to catch fire but had no injuries.
Montague County Public Information Officer Sgt. Aaron Randle said the call came in around 7:30 a.m. at the intersection of SH 59 and Nobile Road. When Montague Volunteer Fire Department firefighters arrived, the 2008 Chevy pickup had rolled over and was fully enguled in flames. The17-year-old adult driver was out of the vehicle.
Brandle said the fire was under control at 8:06 a.m. Bowie Emergency Medical Services was also on the scene.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The City of Nocona has been nominated as a rural Opportunity Zone by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Mayor Christopher Nunneley said they will begin “pitching” this federal tax angle to potential businesses.”
At a Tuesday afternoon press conference Nunneley, Donna Culpepper, executive director for the Nocona Economic Development Corporation and Michelle Page of the Nocona Chamber of Commerce announced the nomination and offered a brief overview of the federal tax incentives that can become available.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
Remember Sept. 11 2001, 25 years later
While history will remember Sept. 11, 2001 among the darkest days in America’s history, it also is a day marked not only by tremendous heroism and bravery by first responders, but also every day Americans from all walks of life who showed the world our country would not be intimidated by terrorism.
There were 2,996 people killed during the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 including 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York city police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers. Tens of thousands more suffered in the aftermath due to exposure to chemicals and industrial debris.
The Bowie News editor asked some local lawmen, firefighters, a pilot and two retired FBI agents their memories of this tragic day and how their jobs were impacted by the events. We thank them for sharing their reflections.
Read the full feature in your Thursday Bowie News.
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