NEWS
Pair of fatality accidents occur in Montague County
Oct. 10, 2019 fatality
A 41-year-old Alvord man was killed in a one-vehicle accident on State Highway 101 north of Sunset on Oct. 10.
The crash occurred at 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Department of Public Safety officials report Brian Earl Love was driving a 2002 Ford F-150 pickup north on Hwy. 101 and drove off the roadway to the right.
The driver overcorrected to the left which caused the pickup to skid sideways across the road and enter the south side ditch. The pickup rolled several times and ejected the driver. Love was pronounced dead at the scene by Justice of the Peace David Allen.
Oct. 2, 2019 fatality
A 50-year-old Denton man died from injuries in a two vehicle crash between Nocona and Saint Jo on U.S. Highway 82 on Oct. 2.
The accident occurred at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 2 on U.S. 82, one mile east of Dixie School Road. According to the Department of Public Safety, Steven Anderson had parked on the right shoulder of U.S. 82 facing west in his 2007 Ford SUV.
A second vehicle, a 2013 Hyundai car driven by Cheryl Johnson, Saint Jo, was westbound on U.S. 82 when she drove onto the improved shoulder and struck Anderson from behind. Johnson’s vehicle came to rest in the roadway, caught fire and completely burned, but the driver was able to exit the vehicle.
Anderson’s vehicle was pushed off the road where it rolled down the embankment coming to rest on the other side of the property line fence. Nocona firefighters arrived and Nocona EMS worked to remove Anderson from his vehicle and stabilize him. He was airlifted by helicopter and taken to a Denton Medical City with serious injuries. He was pronounced dead a short time later.
Saint Jo EMS arrived and transported Johnson to Nocona General with reportedly non-life threatening injuries. She was treated and released.
The Nocona News reported earlier in the day a sheriff’s deputy and Nocona EMS had been dispatched to make a welfare check on Anderson who was sitting in his vehicle.
Anderson reportedly told them his SUV had broken down and he was waiting on someone to help him haul it back to Denton. The News reports a Nocona volunteer firefighter recommended Anderson not wait inside the SUV for safety’s sake.
Members of the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on June 16.
The big item on the agenda is the review of superintendent candidate applications and consider possible interview choice. Superintendent Blake Enlow resigned on May 23 and Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris has been serving as the interim.
That item will be in executive session along with professional educator contracts that need to be considered.
On the regular agenda Farris will update the board on education bills passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and their budget impacts, as well as discipline impacts. A budget workshop will be considered. She also will provide information on state assessment and board goals.
Campus administrators and directors will provide updates, along with the finance director.
In action items the board will review Texas Association of School Board update 124, consider changes to the 12-month and 11 employee dates and consider the purchase of a new band trailer not to exceed $80,000.
Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves then Thursday Bowie News to a delivery date on Friday. It will be available in the stores at its regular time.
As of June 9 details on why an appeal bond was revoked on Casey Hall which prompted her arrest in Sulphur Springs on June 2 remain unclear.
The former 97th District Attorney was convicted of misapplication of fiduciary property and theft by a public servant on May 13 in the 16th District Court in Denton County.
The jury gave her a sentence of one year in state jail for misapplication of fiduciary property and six years probation for theft by a public servant.
The 38-year-old Hall was booked into the Hopkins County Jail on June 2 on a warrant after a Denton County judge revoked the appeal bond that was $10,000.
Hall filed her intent to appeal the conviction and sentence, so after posting a $10,000 bond, she was released on May 14 instead of beginning her sentence.
Denton County Court records indicated on June 2 Judge Sherry Shipman, who presided in the trial, declared Hall’s bond insufficient and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
There were rumors Hall may have opted to drop her appeal, but that information has not been confirmed through the court. As of June 9 Hall remained booked into the Hopkins County Jail.
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