NEWS
Bowie newcomer killed in crash with ambulance
A new resident of Bowie was killed in a two-vehicle crash involving a Bowie ambulance Thursday night.
The accident occurred at 8 p.m. Thursday night near the Wise and Mill Street intersection. According to an accident report from the Texas Department of Public Safety, Forrest Grimes, 26, was leaving the Allsup’s Store at the corner of Wise and Mill when he failed to yield right-of-way to the emergency vehicle.
The ambulance was on a call for service driving with its emergency lights on when it struck Grimes on the driver’s side of his 2009 Pontiac passenger car. The car came to rest in the nearby Parts Plus parking lot where it collided with a sign pole.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. The trooper reports Grimes was wearing his seatbelt and was the only occupant in his vehicle.
Grimes was in the process of moving to Bowie where on Monday he had begun his new job as sports editor of The Bowie News.
The News staff is heartbroken at the tragic loss of our new friend and colleague. We are saddened we will not be able to get to know this intelligent young man who was excited to begin his new job. Our sympathy goes out to his family.
After nearly three months of no rain, Mother Nature brought the showers this past week.
Downtown Bowie rain reports varied from 7 to 8 inches, while the Saint Jo area reported a 10-inch total. The city water plant in Bowie reported 5.55 inches on Sept. 30 with 1.6 Oct. 1-3.
Nocona saw a total of 6.31 inches of rain across Sept. 26 to Oct. 3.
On Oct. 6, Lake Amon G. Carter saw a level of 917.39 mean sea level rising to 81.31% full. Just one week earlier the lake was 73.6% full, while one year ago it was 94.01%. The lake is full at 920msl.
Lake Nocona was 73.7% full at 823.02 on Oct 6. One week earlier it was 70.41% full and one year ago it was 92.41%. The lake is full at 827.5 msl.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
One Montague County City has joined the battle against any data centers being built in this county and there is a petition drive underway to urge the commissioner’s court to keep data centers out of Montague County.
At a Sept. 28 called meeting of the Saint Jo City Council, officials unanimously approved a resolution stating its opposition to the “siting, permitting, construction or operation of data centers and similar hyperscale computing facilities within the city limits or the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.”
City Secretary Debbie Dennis said several citizens approached Councilor Jack Dunn about their data center concerns and he helped prepare a resolution. The council gave unanimous support.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
Montague County Judge Kevin Benton has signed an order lifting the outdoor burn ban effective Oct. 7.
Persons are still urged to be cautious when they are out working in the countryside to avoid any spark that could cause a wildfire.
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