NEWS
Voter turnout tops 11.94% in county
There was an 11.94 percent turnout in Tuesday’s party primary election runoffs in Montague County.
Elections Administrator Ginger Wall reported 1,579 of the county’s 13,226 registered voters cast ballots Tuesday.
There were only two county race runoffs on the Republican ticket and one state-wide race on the Democratic ticket.
Assistant County Treasurer LaVonda Langford won a close race for county treasurer with 53.31 percent or 790 votes defeating Brandi Shipman, former elections administrator who had 692 votes or 46.69 percent.
Langford has been assistant treasurer since March 2013. The position came open when Treasurer Linda McGaughey opted to retire this year. There are no Democratic party challengers on the November election.
Retired law officer Kevin Benton defeated two-term justice of the peace two Karen Reynolds, 545 to 266 votes. He earned 67.20 percent of the vote over Reynolds’ 32.80 percent.
In the only Democratic state runoff, Lupe Valdez won 31 votes in the county, just one more than Andrew White’s 30 votes. Valdez, former chief of the Dallas Police Department, went on to defeat White statewide with 52.7 percent of the vote. She will face off against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in November.
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)
No action was taken on a legal issue after members of the Bowie City Council met in a called closed session at 4 p.m. on July 12.
City Secretary Sandy Page said the council met for almost one hour for “consultation with attorney – Midwest Waste Services LLC vs. City of Bowie.
This lawsuit goes back to August 2019 when Midwest sued the city for its action requiring those who receive city water outside the city limits to use the designated waste collector, which is Waste Connections. This was shortly after the city signed a new long-term contract with WC.
The suit was dismissed in June 2020 on two points in the suit, but City Manager Bert Cunningham said a third point remained in mediation.
The Department of Public Safety has provided information on an auto vs. motorcycle accident that reportedly occurred on July 4.
James Lee Hilton, Nocona, was driving a 2019 Harley-Davidson motorcycle and Daniel Parra, Chico, was driving a 2018 Ford Fiesta. Both vehicles were north on State Highway 101 outside Sunset with the motorcycle behind the car.
Parra was attempting to turn left on Farm-to-Market Road 2265 when the motorcyclist attempted to unsafely pass to the left states the report. The bike struck the left side of the Fiesta. Both vehicles came to rest off the roadway on the northwest corner of SH 101 and FM 2265.
Hilton was transported to Denton Medical City with
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