NEWS
Montague, Tarrant Counties working together to share vaccines for 1A, 1B tiers
Montague and Tarrant Counties have worked out a plan to share vaccines for tier 1A and 1B.
Late Friday afternoon, Montague County Judge Kevin Benton sent out a release announcing the county will be working with Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley who agreed to assist Montague County in a “regional approach” to effectively make additional vaccines available to county citizens.
County citizens will be able to submit an application for the vaccine on the Tarrant County government website, but if approved will have to travel to that county for the shots.
The release states the Texas Department of State Health Services, Tarrant County Public Health, along with other Texas-based entities are providing initial vaccinations to those most at risk of exposure to COVID-19. These people have been designated as tiers 1A and 1B.
These groups include doctors, nurses, first responders, as well as individuals 65 and older and 18 and older with an underlying medical condition.
Tarrant County is distributing the Moderna vaccine at this time, which is only available to individuals 18 and older.
Benton said if you qualify for the vaccine under phase 1A and 1B groups, please be patient. Go to the link at the end of this story to sign up.
Follow the application process and it will allow you to sign up in the Tarrant County portal even though you are a Montague County resident. If the application is approved, the applicant will be contacted about a time and location.
Additional information will be released as it is available.
The judge concluded while a person would have to travel which is not optimum, it provides an option until additional vaccines are allocated to the counties. Use the link below to go to the Tarrant County site.
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.
A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.
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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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