NEWS
Fiery crash closes U.S. 287 at Bellevue Monday
A car-semi-truck accident on Monday shortly before noon caused a fire and shut down the highway for almost five hours.
Area emergency responders worked this auto-semi-truck wreck that occurred about 10:45 a.m. on Monday in Bellevue in the northbound side of U.S. Highway 287. Henrietta Volunteer Fire Department responded along with Bellevue, Vashti, Bowie Rural and City of Bowie Fire Departments.
Officials with the Department of Public Safety said the accident involved an 18-wheeler that was traveling southbound and a passenger vehicle that was northbound. DPS reported the passenger car drove into southbound traffic for unknown reasons and collided with the 18-wheeler hitting a diesel tank causing both vehicles to catch fire.
The car’s driver, was removed from the vehicle by a trooper and transported to John Peter Smith hospital in Fort Worth with nonlife-threatening injuries. The truck driver was transported to United Regional in Wichita Falls with serious injuries, but not believed to be life-threatening.
This semi-truck was hauling boxes of LEGOS. When the truck cab caught fire it spread into the trailer. Firefighters reported the cargo was difficult to extinguish due to it being plastic and all the cardboard boxes. Firefighters had to remove some of the cargo in order to extinguish the blaze. This section of the highway was closed until 4:30 p.m. There was one lane open on the southbound side alternating traffic to help with traffic flow.
Members of the Bowie City Council will face a brief agenda when they meet at 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the council chambers.
Following routine reports and consent agenda items, the council will consider a resolution authorizing submission of the city’s 2027/2028 Texas Community Development Block Grant application to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Then council members will consider approving Bob Blackburn for appointment as a reserve police officer with the Bowie Police Department.
Following an executive session, the council will discuss and potentially take action regarding the annual employment evaluations and duties of both the City Secretary and the Municipal Court Judge.
After nearly three months of no rain, Mother Nature brought the showers this past week.
Downtown Bowie rain reports varied from 7 to 8 inches, while the Saint Jo area reported a 10-inch total. The city water plant in Bowie reported 5.55 inches on Sept. 30 with 1.6 Oct. 1-3.
Nocona saw a total of 6.31 inches of rain across Sept. 26 to Oct. 3.
On Oct. 6, Lake Amon G. Carter saw a level of 917.39 mean sea level rising to 81.31% full. Just one week earlier the lake was 73.6% full, while one year ago it was 94.01%. The lake is full at 920msl.
Lake Nocona was 73.7% full at 823.02 on Oct 6. One week earlier it was 70.41% full and one year ago it was 92.41%. The lake is full at 827.5 msl.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
One Montague County City has joined the battle against any data centers being built in this county and there is a petition drive underway to urge the commissioner’s court to keep data centers out of Montague County.
At a Sept. 28 called meeting of the Saint Jo City Council, officials unanimously approved a resolution stating its opposition to the “siting, permitting, construction or operation of data centers and similar hyperscale computing facilities within the city limits or the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.”
City Secretary Debbie Dennis said several citizens approached Councilor Jack Dunn about their data center concerns and he helped prepare a resolution. The council gave unanimous support.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
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