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Commissioners may fill veteran’s service position

Montague County Commissioners will consider filling the vacancy in the veteran’s service officer position when they meet at 9 a.m. on July 25.
The VSO has been vacant since July 7 the last day for longtime county employee Colm Murphy who submitted a letter of resignation on Jun 24. Murphy had served as VSO for the past 10 years.
While no specific reason was cited in the letter, Murphy stated, “Over the last few weeks events have unfolded where I feel the veteran’s office can no longer prosper with me at the helm.” Murphy recommended his assistant, Angela Uselton, fill the vacancy.
An executive session is slated to discuss the personnel topic.
The court will consider accepting the proposed 2022-23 budget. Certified property values arrived late this past week and they could move forward with projecting taxes and calculating a possible rate.
Several property issues related to subdivisions are on Monday’s agenda. They include: Releasing the construction bond on Bonita Oaks Subdivision, approving a replat in Silver Lakes Ranch phase three; final plat for lots 1-30 Carter Heights 63.82 acres; final plat for lots one-five Kingdom Heights 30 acres; final plat lots one-two Kingdom Heights II, 10.03 acres and approve clearing a fence row on Alamo Road in precinct two.
Commissioners will discuss making Aflac available to county employees as supplemental insurance; accept the county attorney’s chapter 59 asset and forfeiture report; accept unanticipated revenue of $3,652 from the Texas Association of Counties Health and Employees Benefits Pool surplus distributions and memorandum of understanding between the county judge justice of the peace one and two and the Helen Farabee Centers Substance Abuse Services.
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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.
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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.
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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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