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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.
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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