NEWS
CO leaks sends 4 to hospital

By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Carbon monoxide is called “the invisible killer,” and this week several apartment tenants got a dose of that when their apartment received dangerous levels of the gas.
The incident began at 10:37 p.m. on Jan. 11 at 207 E. Wilbarger as the caller requested an ambulance for two sick people, one who was nauseous and another who was short of breath.
Fire Chief Doug Page said the firefighters talked to the patients trying to figure out what may have caused their symptoms, and then they began to think about carbon monoxide poisoning. Another ambulance was called when two other people started having symptoms, and the EMTs also requested the EMS bring a carbon monoxide meter.
Further examination of the apartments after the gas was turned off revealed an exhaust flue in the attic had been been disconnected possibly during storm repairs. Page said that attic holds all four units for the four apartments in that building so the other three apartments also were getting amounts of the odorless gas. Page said the manager was present and the firefighters showed him the problem.
EMTs, along with police officers evacuated the other apartments and ventilated the structure. Two of the apartments had tenants present and one tenant was not home. Page said four people were transported to the hospital, while the other three who were evacuated were fine.
Read more on this story and CO safety tips in the weekend Bowie News.

NEWS
Bowie School Board to review superintendent candidate applications

Members of the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on June 16.
The big item on the agenda is the review of superintendent candidate applications and consider possible interview choice. Superintendent Blake Enlow resigned on May 23 and Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris has been serving as the interim.
That item will be in executive session along with professional educator contracts that need to be considered.
On the regular agenda Farris will update the board on education bills passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and their budget impacts, as well as discipline impacts. A budget workshop will be considered. She also will provide information on state assessment and board goals.
Campus administrators and directors will provide updates, along with the finance director.
In action items the board will review Texas Association of School Board update 124, consider changes to the 12-month and 11 employee dates and consider the purchase of a new band trailer not to exceed $80,000.
NEWS
Bowie News will be 1 day late due to June 19 holiday

Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves then Thursday Bowie News to a delivery date on Friday. It will be available in the stores at its regular time.
NEWS
Former DA Hall remains in jail

As of June 9 details on why an appeal bond was revoked on Casey Hall which prompted her arrest in Sulphur Springs on June 2 remain unclear.
The former 97th District Attorney was convicted of misapplication of fiduciary property and theft by a public servant on May 13 in the 16th District Court in Denton County.
The jury gave her a sentence of one year in state jail for misapplication of fiduciary property and six years probation for theft by a public servant.
The 38-year-old Hall was booked into the Hopkins County Jail on June 2 on a warrant after a Denton County judge revoked the appeal bond that was $10,000.
Hall filed her intent to appeal the conviction and sentence, so after posting a $10,000 bond, she was released on May 14 instead of beginning her sentence.
Denton County Court records indicated on June 2 Judge Sherry Shipman, who presided in the trial, declared Hall’s bond insufficient and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
There were rumors Hall may have opted to drop her appeal, but that information has not been confirmed through the court. As of June 9 Hall remained booked into the Hopkins County Jail.
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