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NGH vaccinating staff, first responders

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Nocona General Hospital received its first 100-dose allocation of the COVID-19 vaccine and is giving it to staff and first responders.
It will receive an additional 100 doses in the next allocation. Dr. Chance Dingler, county health authority, said he spoke with the regional state epidemiologist Monday and there is no specific county entity set up to provide vaccines.
“Individual entities can petition to give vaccines like Bowie Pharmacy, CVS, Bowie Fire, etc. Bowie School District can vaccinate their own as long as they are signed up with the correct people. NGH will not have the staff to be the ‘vaccinator’ for the county so other entities will need to step forward and help. NGH will clearly help where we can but will need help from other organizations. This is the most efficient way to get our county covered,” said Dingler.

DSHS release Monday

The Texas Department of State Health Services has instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to ship first doses of COVID-19 vaccine to more than 949 providers in 158 Texas counties during the next week. The CDC will deliver 167,300 doses of the vaccine manufactured by Moderna and 37,050 doses of the Pfizer vaccine directly to Texas providers.
Nocona General Hospital learned it will receive an additional 100 doses in the fourth week allocation, however, officials are still waiting for the initial 100 doses from the week three allocation to arrive.
An additional 121,875 doses of the Pfizer vaccine will go to the federal Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care Program. Vaccinations under the program started in Texas last week and, according to the CDC, will serve staff and residents at 770 long-term-care facilities in the next week.
The CDC also will deliver 224,250 second doses to the providers who received vaccine the week of Dec. 14 to complete the series for the people that were vaccinated in the first week of vaccine distribution.
Texas has been allocated about 1.5 million first doses through the first four weeks of vaccine distribution, and vaccine will have reached providers in a total of 214 counties by the end of the week. DSHS has posted a vaccine provider location map that will be updated frequently.
A list of providers that will be receiving vaccine this week is available at www.dshs.texas.gov/news/updates/COVIDVaccineAllocation-Week4.pdf.
DSHS encourages providers to rapidly vaccinate priority populations against COVID-19 and promptly report doses administered in ImmTrac2, the state’s immunization registry. While the supply of vaccine is still limited, additional allocations of vaccine will be received each week.

Department of State Health Service COVID 19 statistics as of Jan. 5

1,295 confirmed cases in Montague County, 231 probable

91 new cases added Tuesday the highest increase during the pandemic

126 active cases, 1,386 recovered

40 fatalities.

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Bowie Council meets June 23

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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.

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City of Bowie reports heat advisory today

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A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.

Hear Audio Alert:https://hrpow.us/oeFZANN

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Sheriff confirms human remains found in Sunset area

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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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