NEWS
Early voting opens strong the first day with nearly 1,000 voters
Early voting opened strong in Montague County Monday with 6.89 percent or 918 people casting ballots.
Brandi Shipman, elections administrator, said things ran smoothly at the four early voting locations, and she was excited to see a strong start.
“We’ve had elections where we didn’t have that many people vote, so we expect to stay busy during early voting and we are prepared,” said Shipman.
Montague County has 13,324 registered voters going into the Nov. 8 general election.
While her crew of elections judges and staff were busy accepting voters, Shipman had to field an array of press calls for a vague reference in a Facebook posting to possible voting problems in Montague County. It ended up the post referred to voting in Arlington.
Read the full story in the mid-week News.
Pictured: Chris Hughes gets signed in at the early voting location in Montague where Judge Karen Applewhite checks his name in the electronic polling book. (Photo by Barbara Green)
The jury was seated on Monday and the opening day of testimony Tuesday only lasted four hours, before the panel went into deliberations about 2 p.m.
Two hours later the jury returned a guilty verdict on both charges. Wednesday morning the jury was set to begin discussion on Hall’s punishment at 8:30 a.m. with both sides offering evidence and testimony. Hall faces up to 10 years in prison.
The trial was moved to Denton County on a change of venue requested by Hall in March. After 16th District Judge Sherry Shipman read the verdict, it was reported Hall hung her head in disappointment and was later seen crying and emotional as she left the courtroom.
Members of the Bowie City Council will meet in regular session at 6 p.m. on May 13 in council chambers.
The meeting opens with a proclamation for Emergency Medical Services Week.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will report on recent rainfall problems, Smythe Street sidewalk project and the substation work.
There is only one item of new business an ordinance related to speed limits on specific streets. Public comments and approval of minutes wrap up the agenda.
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