NEWS
2017 news took many trails, from citizens’ dissension to business development
By BARBARA GREEN
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
Oprah Winfrey may have the right idea with that statement as the past cannot be changed, we can only move forward. Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. Happy New Year.
Below are some of the top news items covered by The Bowie News during 2017. While it is far from all the news, we selected to ones that impacted the most people.
It was a year fraught with uncertainty on many fronts nationally and locally. Montague County news spanned the gambit from citizen outrage at their local government to citizens joining together to help those reeling from the hurricanes. As the new year dawned, firefighters in the Bowie area battled a massive blaze at the old Bellmire Home on Rock Street. The front building was completed destroyed by fire.
A large slate of newly elected county government officials took the oath of office including Sheriff Marshall Thomas, District Attorney Casey Polhemus and Commissioner Roy Darden in precinct one.
Read the full review of the 2017 news in the weekend edition.
The city ladder truck sprays water onto the fire from above. (Photo by Dani Blackburn)
Architectural rendering of the new patient rooms at NGH. (Courtesy BYSP)
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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NEWS2 years ago2 hurt, 1 jailed after shooting incident north of Nocona
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NEWS8 months agoSuspect indicted, jailed in Tia Hutson murder
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NEWS1 year agoSO investigating possible murder/suicide
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NEWS2 years agoWreck takes the life of BHS teen, 16
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NEWS12 months agoMurder unsolved – 1 year later Tia Hutson’s family angry, frustrated with no arrest
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NEWS1 year ago
Sheriff’s office called out to infant’s death
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NEWS2 years agoBowie Police face three-hour standoff after possible domestic fight
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NEWS2 years ago
Driver stopped by a man running into the street, robbed at knifepoint