NEWS
City, school election filings end Monday
Election filings comes to an end on Aug. 20 for those wishing to run for city and school elections on Nov. 6.
For the Bowie City Council there will be three races on the ballot. Place One filled by Craig Stallcup; Place Two, Terry Gunter; and Place Three, Chuck Malone.
Gunter has filed to run for re-election. Chuck Malone also filed and is challenged by former Councilor Ben Wiseman and newcomer Brent Shaw. Diana Higgins and Thomas Kent are running for place one.
For the Bowie Independent School District incumbent Trustee Jacky Betts has drawn a challenge for place one in Cory Hickey. Debbie Leonard, place two, has filed for re-election.
The Saint Jo City Council has a mayor’s race and two council positions on the ballot. Ben Amerson has filed for council, where there is one vacancy and one seat filled now by Randall Flusche. The mayor is Lucas Thompson appointed in October 2017 when the former mayor resigned.
The Saint Jo School Board has drawn only its two incumbents, Leeton Phillips and Dee Weger. The school board also has called a bond election for a $6.6 million construction project.
Prairie Valley ISD also has all four incumbents filed: Brant Carpenter, Cathy Goolsby, Sid Hammons and Clint Pigg.
In Gold-Burg ISD, Trustee Brandy Hamilton is the only person to have filed. The other places up on the ballot are filled by Robert Barzano, Rebecca Horton and Raymond Rhyne.
Forestburg ISD has Charley Lanier filed to retain his trustee position. The other places are filled by Hoyt Mann and Billie Piorot. The district also will have a $1.775 million bond election for safety and maintenance issues.
The deadline to register to vote in the Nov. 6 election is Oct. 9. To verify if you are registered or to register visit the state website at: votetexas.gov. or go to the county website at: www.co.montague.tx.us.
By BARBARA GREEN
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Katie Boggeman had high aspirations even in kindergarten, where she told her teacher she wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice.
She laughs about that memory today and is not sure what made her pick that profession, but it was omen for the future as Boggeman began her official term as 97th District Attorney this week.
The Clay County resident won the March Republican Party Primary defeating DA Casey Hall and was not challenged in the general election planning for a Jan. 1, 2025 start; however, after the outgoing DA was indicted on theft charges those plans changed. So far she has been sworn in once after Hall agreed to a suspension and a second time when Hall resigned and the governor appointed Boggeman to fill the interim. She looks to the Jan. 1 ceremony as the “third time charm.”
The 44-year-old Boggeman has been married to Joe Mac Boggeman since 2015. The couple is raising two children in the Four Corners area of Clay County, where Joe Mac’s family is from. She calls herself a country girl at heart and always knew they would make their home in a rural area.
Boggeman grew up on a horse ranch in California where she showed livestock and competed in numerous horse disciplines as a youth. She grew up in the rodeo world and earned her first queen title at the age of 12. It was the start of a “queening journey,” that peaked with the Miss Rodeo USA from the International Professional Rodeo Association in 2004. She believes those experiences helped form the person she would become, as she traveled across the country and Canada at the age of 24.
Read the full feature in the weekend Bowie News.
Top Photo: Katie Boggeman, 97th district attorney, stands with her staff. (Left) Brandi Shipman, Wes Wallace, Paige McCormick, Boggeman, Todd Lewis and Jackie Welsh. The new DA is excited to have a full staff onboard and ready to go in 2025. (Courtesy photo)
While all of these elected officials were incumbents, they took the oath of office for a new term on Jan. 1, 2025. They are: Constable One Harvey Johnson, Constable Two Jerry DeMoss; County Attorney Clay Riddle; Tax Assessor-Collector Kathy Phillips; Sheriff Marshall Thomas; County Judge Kevin Benton administered the oath; Commissioner Three Mark Murphey and Commissioner One Roy Darden. (Photo by Barbara Green)
Jan. 1, 2025 is the first day of a new elected term for many Montague County officials. There will be a swearing-in ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on Jan. 1 in the courthouse annex.
The public is invited to attend with refreshments to follow.
Officials being sworn in are: Sheriff Marshall Thomas, County Attorney, Commissioner One Roy Darden, Commissioner Three Mark Murphey, Constables Jerry DeMoss and Harvey Johnson and Tax Assessor Kathy Phillips.
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