NEWS
COVID cases still booming; schools hope the worst may be behind them
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The Texas Department of Health Service announced on Jan. 15 it would no longer report the number of COVID-19 cases in the state that are considered recovered or active.
Looking at the new statistics as of Jan. 17 Montague County had 107 new confirmed cases. That reporting change went into effect Jan. 14 along with several other updates to the state’s COVID-19 dashboard, which has been the primary database for county case counts since the pandemic began.
DSHS reported it had revised case totals to account for final numbers from 2020, which the agency reported to the Center for Disease Control. In 2020, the first year of the pandemic in Texas, 1,620,499 were confirmed and 182,983 probable cases were reported.
Montague County Health Authority Dr. Chance Dingler said the local medical community has been pushed to its limits as medical staff members got sick and the clinics were inundated with patients.
County schools also are grappling with the high COVID numbers and routine winter-time illnesses with staff and students.
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Montague County Commissioners had a short meeting Monday.
After installing some new filing systems in the district clerk’s offices, the county appears to have an overflow of filing cabinets. Thanks in part to electronic recording of many records and the mechanized filing in the district clerk’s office, the need for metal filing cabinets has waned.
Commissioner Mark Murphey, who also runs an auction company, said you can barely give them away nowadays, while Commissioner Mike Mayfield said they may make more by salvaging them to a metal recycler. Commissioner Roy Darden said it would probably cost more to advertise an auction than what they could make on selling them.
County Auditor Jennifer Essary said they can auction, salvage or take sealed bids for the items. Commissioners decided to scrap them, but be open to anyone picking up any as they load them up for salvage.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
The following felony cases were returned by the Montague County Grand Jury during its November session last week.
According to the 97th District Attorney Katie Boggeman, of the 18 cases three received no bills and two were sealed awaiting arrest of the suspect.
The sealed cases include charges of possession of a controlled substance 4-200 grams and tampering with an electronic monitoring device.
The grand jury determined there was insufficient evidence to warrant indictment resulting in no bills on a charge of possession of child pornography and online solicitation of a minor against the same person.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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