NEWS
Saint Jo City Council to consider EMS billing
Saint Jo Fire Chief Scott Thomas and emergency medical services will be front and center at the Aug. 9 city council meeting.
The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at the Saint Jo Civic Center (101 E. Boggess Street).
The council will consider creating a new city ordinance to allow billing for the Saint Jo Volunteer Fire/EMS Department.
Thomas is then expected to update the council on the selection of a billing company.
There also will be a confirmation ceremony for Saint Jo volunteer fire/EMS officers.
Councilors will discuss a new health and sanitation ordinance and aa water system agreement between CareFlite and Saint Jo.
The 2015-16 financial audit will be approved, and the calling and ordering of the 2017 general election.
Three places are up, Paul Mouring, Bryan Wolf and Stephanie West. Mouring also has been serving as Saint Jo’s mayor pro tem.
The council will act on the approval of Doyle Cook and John Sickles to the Saint Jo Economic Development 4A Board.
Resident Jack Dunn has asked to place a manufactured home at 815 W. Crump.
Two upcoming events will be discussed – Ladies Night Out and the Boho Saint Jo Fall Show.
There will be citizen’s comments, and action on minutes from the prior meetings, financial statements and bills.
Reports from the police, fire, public works and municipal court judge wrap up the meeting agenda.
The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on June 23.
The agenda includes both old and new business items.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will make his report on the 2026-27 budget process, bid opening for the Glenn Hills lift station on July 16 and the bid for Rock and Pillar repairs.
In new business a pair of planning and zoning committee recommendations for replats at 107 E. Nelson and 412 Green will be reviewed. An ordinance adopting an office of emergency management amending a present ordinance will be offered.
Old business will see the second reading of the pickleball court reservation fee ordinance and the ordinance prohibiting drilling and mining or the reopening of an abandoned well or mine in any public park in the city limits.
A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.
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Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas has confirmed human skeletal remains were recovered on June 13 in the Sunset area, and they could possibly be those of a flight attendant believed to have been murdered almost a year ago in the Fort Worth.
The murder suspect, Dennis William Day, 66, admitted in June 2025 to strangling Rana Soluri, 47, an Envoy flight attendant who lived with Day during that last year. She was reported missing by a co-worker on June 11 and had not been seen or heard from since March 2025.
Day initially denied any involvement, but later admitted to the murder and indicated he dumped her body somewhere in the Montague County area. Lawmen have scoured the areas in questions in both Montague and Wise County, but found nothing.
Sheriff Thomas said on June 13 the SO received a call of possible skeletal remains in the Brushy Creek area north of Poss Dyer Lane on Farm-to-Market 1749. A deputy went to the scene and confirmed it was human remains.
Investigators responded and kept the scene secure overnight until staff from the University of North Texas Forensic Anthropology Center could arrive and made the recovery on June 14. A Texas Ranger and staff from the Fort Worth Police Department also were on scene.
“There is no determination made yet on how long it has been there,” said Thomas. “The anthropologist was pleased to recover most of the skeleton in these conditions. Heavy rains previously made the past searches difficult. We are working jointly with Fort Worth to make an identification and if it is the victim in their homicide.”
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