NEWS
Early voting ends topping nearly 550 voters
Texas voters go to the polls Tuesday to consider a slate of seven constitutional amendments on a variety of topics, while voters in Bowie will select city council and school board members and Saint Jo elects school trustees.
It was a busy two-week early voting period led by the City of Bowie where for the first time in many years there were contested races for three council seats.
The Bowie Independent School District will fill three trustee slots, with one incumbent unopposed and two contested. Saint Jo ISD has three places with three incumbents and three challengers.
Shortly before noon Friday as early voting came to an end, Elections Administrator Ginger Wall reported a total of 538 early voter ballots. Broken out by city it was: Bowie, 368; Nocona, 26; Saint Jo, 64; and Montague, 47.
On election day voters are reminded they may cast a ballot at any of the voting centers located across the county, you are not required to vote only in your home precinct.
Read the full story on the candidates in the weekend News.
The regular meeting of the Bowie City Council for July 22 has been cancelled. City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris will be attending the Texas Public Power Association conference.
City of Bowie officials were on hand to inspect the emergency electrical generators that were delivered last week.
Mayor Gaylynn Burris and City Manager Bert Cunningham inspected one of three emergency electrical generators purchased as part of an ongoing Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant. They also talked with Jay Evans, head of the city electric department, and Jerry Sutton, director of the water treatment plant about the next step for installation of the generators.
This grant provides funding for one 150 kW and two 250 kW generators for use at the water treatment plant.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris talk with the electric and water department staff about the new generators. (Photo by Cindy Roller)
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