NEWS
Bowie Police update: Missing person title lifted, man is safe
Update: Aug. 7, Bowie Police Chief Guy Green reports Daniel Dirickson has confirmed he is safe and his missing person designation has been lifted. Green said the man’s family has been contacted about the update that came late Tuesday evening.
Bowie Police are investigating a missing person’s report filed by the mother of a 26-year-old man living in Bowie, whom she says they have been unable to contact for about one month.
Danene Dirickson, Forestburg, filed the missing person’s report on her son Daniel Dirickson the afternoon of July 20 at the Bowie Police Department. She said he was living in Bowie at 408 Campbell with Sarah Cambre.
According to the police report Cambre said Dirickson has left with her aunt who possibly gave him a ride to Littlefield to his father’s residence. Sgt. Josh Wolfe said Cambre told him Dirickson was refusing to talk with her as well and was upset with her. She was going to attempt to contact through social media and let the police know if she heard from him.
Wolfe attempted to follow multiple leads by contacting friends and relatives he saw through Dirickson’s Facebook page, but he had been unable to establish any form of contact with him or get a phone number for him.
Information and a description of the man were entered into the state system noting him as a missing person due to the extended time that has passed since his family or friends had heard from him.
Lt. Randy Hanson said at 6:53 p.m. on July 21 the police department received a phone call from a male who identified himself as Daniel Dirickson. He reportedly gave police his date of birth and driver’s license number. Police instructed him to make contact in person with any law enforcement agency to confirm his identity because he was listed as a missing person.
Hanson said the male did not do this and remains listed as missing.
Read the full story in the weekend News.
The second community meeting on needs for an emergency room or hospital in Bowie is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Nov. 19 at the Bowie Community Center.
This is the second meeting to discuss these needs following the closure of the Faith Community Health Center emergency room on Oct. 6, just shy of a year of operation. More than 200 people attended that first meeting, where discussion centered on the creation of a taxing district to support any sort of medical facility.
Citizens in the Bowie area are encouraged to attend and take part in these discussions.
The Bowie City Council has moved its Nov. 18 meeting to 6 p.m. on Nov. 19 where three new council members will take the oath of office.
Councilors include Laura Sproles, precinct two, Brandon Walker, precinct one and Laramie Truax, precinct two. After the votes are canvassed and the oaths given, a mayor pro tem will be selected.
The new members will jump right into training as City Attorney Courtney Goodman-Morris provides an orientation and discussion of duties for council members.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will make his monthly report on the following topics: Nelson Street, which opened last Thursday, update on the sewer line replacement project, substation transformer placement and information on medical companies.
A closed executive session on the Laura McCarn vs. City of Bowie lawsuit is scheduled. The suit arose in November 2022 when the city broached selling some 25 acres it owns on Lake Amon G. Carter, originally part of the land purchased for the 500-acre Bowie Reservoir completed in 1985.
McCarn challenges the ownership of the property stating it should revert to the original owners since it was not used for the lake.
This 24.35 acre tract is located at the end of Indian Trail Road surrounded by the lake and the Silver Lakes Ranch subdivision.
One of Bowie’s major thoroughfares, Nelson Street, was reopened Thursday after one busy block has been closed since August 2021 when a section of the street failed.
Construction finally came to an end on Thursday when the street, including the Nelson and Mill intersection were reopened. Mayor Gaylynn Burris, City Manager Bert Cunningham, Councilors TJay McEwen and Stephanie Post, Engineer Mike Tibbetts and Public Works Director Stony Lowrance met at the site Thursday morning and removed the barricades. It only took a few minutes for vehicles to start arriving and drivers were excited to go through on the new roadway.
This section of Bowie has endured flooding and drainage problems for many years and in the summer of 2023 the city council finally bit the bullet and sought bids for the repair work expected to top $3 million. In August 2021 a one block section of Nelson was closed when a large sinkhole appeared on the north side of the street. Traffic had to be diverted including all the school traffic flowing from the nearby junior high and intermediate.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
Top photo – (Left) Mike Tibbetts, engineer with Hayter Engineering, talks with Bowie City Manager Bert Cunningham as they look over the massive drainage project on Nelson Street.
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