NEWS
MCCWB house open house planned for Sept. 8
This is a story about a house, a house born of a dream. Love and hope created the house’s foundation. Opportunity for healing and resilience exist behind its windows and doors. The dream, the goal, the house’s sole purpose for existence, is to build a community of better families.
The cries of children suffering from the epidemic of abuse and neglect in Montague County sparked the dream. Lack of volunteers, money, and professional resources made the house and its mission only a pipe dream. In 2009, undeterred by the obstacles, the Montague County Child Welfare Board solicited funding from generous donors and the Priddy Grant to purchase an old house that is now paving the way for a new future.
Members of the Montague County Welfare Board would like to invite the public to attend an open house from noon to 3 p.m. on Sept. 8 to view the recently completed renovations. There will be free hamburgers and hot dogs served.
The public is invited to attend and see what the mission of the Montague County Child Welfare Board is all about.
The MCCWB house, located at 506 Hulme, now serves as home base for numerous agencies and volunteers seeking to wrap the most vulnerable members of our community in all the care we can provide. The goal is to provide “Wrap Around Care,” for every child suffering from the unimaginable.
The Bowie house represents a family of organizations, volunteers and professionals who believe in the community the house brings together and the services the house inspires, can in fact build better families. Read the full story in your mid-week Bowie News.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The 2026 certified property values for Montague County were released to the 16 taxing entities for which it sets values and for Montague County the total numbers were up 3.591%.
With the arrival of these numbers, the taxing entities can begin serious work on creating their budgets and proposed tax rates. Last year the Montague County Tax Appraisal District had to create two sets of values pending the November homestead election so they were happy things were back to just one set.
Certified values are based on property sales made as of Jan. 1, 2026. Chief Appraiser Kim Haralson said the values held up well during the protest hearings, and while minerals went down some there were a lot of new properties added.
New taxable property totaled $87,505,775 for 1,208 properties. Haralson said people appear to be setting up manufactured homes on some of the two-acre tract subdivision and other subdivisions are seeing people start to build houses.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
It is going to be a tough budget season for the Bowie City Council as it works through a draft budget proposal that tries to figure out how to pay for major projects and maintain present operations for the 2026-27 fiscal year.
As per the city charter, City Manager Bert Cunningham presented the budget proposal to the council on July 14, emphasizing without the final certified property values, as well as the final health insurance rates, it truly is a draft. The city staff also await the final bid numbers for the Rock and Pillar drainage project hovering around $2 million with plans to fund it through the budget.
A budget workshop was scheduled for 6 p.m. on July 27 with a public hearing to follow on Aug. 11.
Cunningham said the certified figures may become available by the end of the week, but that is uncertain. Two months ago the city’s preliminary values were up $70,530,035 from the 2025 final values, however, usually the certified values fluctuate slightly from the preliminary numbers, which totaled $497,939,568.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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