NEWS
3 new COVID-19 cases reported in county; test results pending on 3 more
According to the Department of State Health Services late Friday three new Montague County resident COVID-19 cases have been confirmed.
“I believe all of them were non-Nocona residents,” reported Nocona General Hospital CEO Lance Meekins Friday afternoon to the Nocona News.
The Nocona General Rural Health Clinics in Bowie and Nocona have ordered 79 of the 309 tests conducted on county residents said Meekins. The vast majority of the tests have been run at out-of-county locations. The Texas Department of Health Services is requiring all individuals who are awaiting out-patient services to undergo a COVID-19 test before the procedure can take place.
It had been 45 days since the last positive test result for a county resident had been reported for Montague County. Over that period of time 229 other county residents were tested for the novel Coronavirus with negative results.
All totaled there have been 12 county residents have tested positive. There have been eight recoveries and one fatality with three patients currently under self-quarantine. Test results are pending for three other individuals.
On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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