NEWS
Early voting begins Monday
Early voting for the Nov. 5 general election begins Oct. 21 and will continue through Nov. 1.
Texas voters will consider a series of 10 proposed constitutional amendments that cover a variety of topics. In local ballots, the City of Bowie and Bowie Independent School District are the only entities to have elections.
Bowie ISD has one contested race in place three as Jases Brown and Jeff Jackson battle it out. Daniel Deweber is unopposed in place four. Neither of the incumbents, Shea Brown or Travis Price, opted to run for another term.
Within the Bowie City Council, there is a race for mayor as Gaylynn Burris is challenged for that post by Bill Miller. Incumbent Councilor Wayne Bell is the only person running unopposed for the three council places.
For precinct one Michael Christmas and Diana Higgins are the candidates and in precinct two, Councilor Jason Love is facing Jason Johnson.
Early voting locations will be as follows: Bowie Bible Baptist Church, 1400 State Highway 59 North; Montague County Annex Community Room, 11339 State Highway 59N; H.J. Justin Community Center, 100 Clay Street, Nocona and Saint Jo Civic Center, 101 E. Boggess.
Early voting hours will be: 8 a.m. -5 p.m. between Oct. 21-Nov. 1.
Extended hours will take place on two days: Oct. 22 and Oct. 31, 7 a.m. -7 p.m., only at the county courthouse annex location.
Visit the Montague County website for sample ballots for all the elections: co.montague.tx.us/page/montague.SampleBallots. The site also includes brief explanations of the constitutional amendments
A crew from Scarborough Engineering was working on control termination wiring in the control room of the Bowie Substation last week. They were integrating additional equipment including the new transformer. Once everything is connected it will go through a testing phase. The transformer project has been stalled during the past year awaiting the arrival of various parts. (News photo by Barbara Green
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
After more than a year of turmoil and upheaval it appears the Amon Carter Lake Water Supply Corporation is back on its feet with a slate of new board members and plans to review by-laws and operations.
Last August all the board members resigned in the wake of a lawsuit by a resident who could not obtain water for a small housing development despite being in the district. The property owner also accused the board of not following open meetings or open records laws, or its own by-laws.
After the board resigned a receivership was requested from the court and was named in December 2025. The receiver or temporary manager was Nocona attorney Zach Renfro, who was directed by the court to seek out possible directors to rehabilitate the association and assure it meets the obligation of continuing to provide water to more than 300 members.
The corporation board conducted its first general membership meeting on March 27 where a state of the corporation was given and new directors
named. They are Kevin McShan, president; Josh Swint, vice president; Carla Swofford, secretary; Wesley Kelly, treasurer; Zach Gunter, Rob Hankins and Chase Thomas, all directors.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
The Bowie City Council meeting scheduled for April 28 was canceled due to the lack of a quorum.
Councilors Boyd Hulstine, Stephanie Post and Brent Shaw were present along with Mayor Gaylynn Burris, Four council members are required. Laramie Truax, Laura Sproles and TJay McEwen were absent. The agenda items were expected to be placed on the next agenda of business for the council.
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