NEWS
Jan. 31 is the final day for property owners to pay their 2019 taxes without facing any penalty or interest for delinquent payments.
Customers should strive to pay their taxes by the Friday deadline to avoid the seven percent penalty and interest that begins Feb. 1.
This amount increases each month until July 1 when attorney fees are added on to the bill.
The county tax office collects for the county, along with Forestburg Independent School District, the two county watersheds, plus Nocona city, school and hospital district. Those payments may be made in the county tax office located in the courthouse annex at Montague.
The Montague County Tax Appraisal District collects for the cities of Bowie and Saint Jo, and school districts of Bowie, Gold-Burg, Montague, Prairie Valley and Saint Jo.
Those payments may be made at the office located on State Highway 59 N at the edge of Montague.
Chief Appraiser Kim Haralson said they have had a lot of phone calls asking if the Jan. 31 postmark would be honored. She said the customer will need to make sure the post office staff hand cancels the postmark date of Jan. 31 for it to be honored if it arrives after Friday.
“If they can’t pay in full we accept partial payments. They will only pay penalty and interest on the unpaid balance,” explained Haralson.
Taxpayers are urged to make arrangements for partial payments to reduce the penalty and interest on the outstanding amount.
Call the county tax office at 894-3881 or the MCTAD office at 894-2081 with questions.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The City of Nocona has been nominated as a rural Opportunity Zone by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Mayor Christopher Nunneley said they will begin “pitching” this federal tax angle to potential businesses.”
At a Tuesday afternoon press conference Nunneley, Donna Culpepper, executive director for the Nocona Economic Development Corporation and Michelle Page of the Nocona Chamber of Commerce announced the nomination and offered a brief overview of the federal tax incentives that can become available.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
Remember Sept. 11 2001, 25 years later
While history will remember Sept. 11, 2001 among the darkest days in America’s history, it also is a day marked not only by tremendous heroism and bravery by first responders, but also every day Americans from all walks of life who showed the world our country would not be intimidated by terrorism.
There were 2,996 people killed during the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 including 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York city police officers and 37 Port Authority police officers. Tens of thousands more suffered in the aftermath due to exposure to chemicals and industrial debris.
The Bowie News editor asked some local lawmen, firefighters, a pilot and two retired FBI agents their memories of this tragic day and how their jobs were impacted by the events. We thank them for sharing their reflections.
Read the full feature in your Thursday Bowie News.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Looking toward the future, the Bowie City Council Tuesday night voted to add an assistant city manager position promoting Public Works Director Stony Lowrance to the job.
The agenda listed an executive session to discuss evaluation of the city manager. Councilors went to closed session at 6:30 p.m. and 15 minutes later asked City Manager Bert Cunningham and Lowrance to come in. After 15 minutes they left the session and a few minutes later the full council came back to open session.
Councilor Brent Shaw, in making the motion for the assistant city manager, pointed to expanded duties the manager has undertaken. Councilor Boyd Hulstine made the second as the vote received unanimous approval.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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