NEWS
Election filings end on Monday
With only a few days left for candidate filing in the Nov. 8 elections, several ballots remain vacant as prospects or incumbents wait until the last day on Aug. 22.
As of Friday, two people had filed for three Bowie City Council positions on the ballot. Councilor Kristi Bates filed for her precinct two place and Laura Sproles filed for precinct one. The places up for the vote are filled now by Laura Hefley, precinct one and Terry Gunter, precinct three. These are two-year terms.
Jeff Jackson filed for re-election to the Bowie Independent School District Board place three, along with Lee Hughes also an incumbent in place six running for the two-year unexpired term. A newcomer, David Kenton Dosch, in place four. Incumbent Trustee Daniel Deweber said he will not run.
Gold-Burg ISD has four places open on the ballot. Incumbents Raymond Rhyne, Brandy Hamilton and Adam Garcia have all filed. The remaining seat is presently filled by James Martin.
All four incumbents on the Prairie Valley School Board have filed: David Allan, Brant Carpenter, Cathy Goolsby and Ricky Roberts.
Forestburg ISD has four places on the ballot that are presently held by Charlie Lanier, Skip Mann, Billie Poirot and Joann Pople. On Friday
eight had filed for the races including all the incumbents plus Cody Wadsworth, Sandra Hensley, Fatima Esparza and Chris Jones.
No one has yet filed for the mayor’s race in the City of Saint Jo. Mayor Tom Weger has not filed and indicated in the spring he would not run.
Incumbent Councilors Leroy Voth and John Dunn have filed for re-election. They are joined by Colton Thomas.
The Saint Jo ISD will see two places open on the ballot with incumbents Mike Martin and Rodney Scwirczynski. No information was available on those filings.
A crew from Scarborough Engineering was working on control termination wiring in the control room of the Bowie Substation last week. They were integrating additional equipment including the new transformer. Once everything is connected it will go through a testing phase. The transformer project has been stalled during the past year awaiting the arrival of various parts. (News photo by Barbara Green
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
After more than a year of turmoil and upheaval it appears the Amon Carter Lake Water Supply Corporation is back on its feet with a slate of new board members and plans to review by-laws and operations.
Last August all the board members resigned in the wake of a lawsuit by a resident who could not obtain water for a small housing development despite being in the district. The property owner also accused the board of not following open meetings or open records laws, or its own by-laws.
After the board resigned a receivership was requested from the court and was named in December 2025. The receiver or temporary manager was Nocona attorney Zach Renfro, who was directed by the court to seek out possible directors to rehabilitate the association and assure it meets the obligation of continuing to provide water to more than 300 members.
The corporation board conducted its first general membership meeting on March 27 where a state of the corporation was given and new directors
named. They are Kevin McShan, president; Josh Swint, vice president; Carla Swofford, secretary; Wesley Kelly, treasurer; Zach Gunter, Rob Hankins and Chase Thomas, all directors.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
The Bowie City Council meeting scheduled for April 28 was canceled due to the lack of a quorum.
Councilors Boyd Hulstine, Stephanie Post and Brent Shaw were present along with Mayor Gaylynn Burris, Four council members are required. Laramie Truax, Laura Sproles and TJay McEwen were absent. The agenda items were expected to be placed on the next agenda of business for the council.
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