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.
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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