NEWS
Without a hospital, BEDC chair says ‘kiss everything good-bye’
By BARBARA GREEN
“If the hospital goes down, all the rest of the community goes down. You can’t recruit business, retirees won’t want to move here and it kills the tax base…We need to do all we can to keep it going. Kiss everything good-bye if we don’t have it.”
With those comments, longtime Bowie Economic Development Corporation Chairman Bert Cunningham made his opinion quite clear on the financial troubles at Bowie Memorial Hospital at Monday night’s joint meeting of the BEDC, Bowie Hospital Board and Bowie 4B Sales Tax Corporation.
About 20 people attended the three-board gathering that was scheduled to allow the groups to discuss BMH financials and sustainability strategies.
Last week, the BMH board voted to prepare a petition that would request a hospital district election for the Nov. 3 general ballot. The board proposed a tax rate of .1850 cents per $100 in property value with hospital district boundaries that would encompass Bowie School district.
BMH Board Chairman Tim Winn, 4B Board Chairman James Scruggs and Cunningham presided over the joint meeting. Read the full story in the mid-week News.
Pictured: Members of the three city boards meets in the city council chambers Monday evening. (Photo by Barbara Green)
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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