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.
The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on June 23.
The agenda includes both old and new business items.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will make his report on the 2026-27 budget process, bid opening for the Glenn Hills lift station on July 16 and the bid for Rock and Pillar repairs.
In new business a pair of planning and zoning committee recommendations for replats at 107 E. Nelson and 412 Green will be reviewed. An ordinance adopting an office of emergency management amending a present ordinance will be offered.
Old business will see the second reading of the pickleball court reservation fee ordinance and the ordinance prohibiting drilling and mining or the reopening of an abandoned well or mine in any public park in the city limits.
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Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas has confirmed human skeletal remains were recovered on June 13 in the Sunset area, and they could possibly be those of a flight attendant believed to have been murdered almost a year ago in the Fort Worth.
The murder suspect, Dennis William Day, 66, admitted in June 2025 to strangling Rana Soluri, 47, an Envoy flight attendant who lived with Day during that last year. She was reported missing by a co-worker on June 11 and had not been seen or heard from since March 2025.
Day initially denied any involvement, but later admitted to the murder and indicated he dumped her body somewhere in the Montague County area. Lawmen have scoured the areas in questions in both Montague and Wise County, but found nothing.
Sheriff Thomas said on June 13 the SO received a call of possible skeletal remains in the Brushy Creek area north of Poss Dyer Lane on Farm-to-Market 1749. A deputy went to the scene and confirmed it was human remains.
Investigators responded and kept the scene secure overnight until staff from the University of North Texas Forensic Anthropology Center could arrive and made the recovery on June 14. A Texas Ranger and staff from the Fort Worth Police Department also were on scene.
“There is no determination made yet on how long it has been there,” said Thomas. “The anthropologist was pleased to recover most of the skeleton in these conditions. Heavy rains previously made the past searches difficult. We are working jointly with Fort Worth to make an identification and if it is the victim in their homicide.”
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