NEWS
Land management series continues Friday
On Oct. 11 Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service with Montague County will host the second in a series of four events marketed to landowners in and around the county.
The program will start at 9 a.m. and conclude at lunchtime with a meal sponsored by Montague County Farm Bureau board members. This event will be in the Montague County Annex Community Room at 11339 State Hwy 59 N Montague.
This educational event is geared toward landowners who want to know how to manage and/or establish their ag and wildlife exemptions for their property. A list of presenters will cover such topics as beef cattle, swine, sheep and goats, horse, bees, and wildlife.
The program is $20 per person and you must RSVP by calling 940-894-2831 or emailing [email protected]. The next event will be on Nov. 15 and will cover topics related to pastures for production purposes.
A Waurika, OK man was killed in a one-vehicle accident in Byers on Oct. 4.
The Department of Public Safety reports the accident occurred at 11:38 a.m. on Oct. 4 on State Highway 59 in Byers.
The preliminary investigation revealed a 2014 Ford F150 driven by Jimmie Lee Way, 86, was traveling west on State Highway 79.
The truck left the roadway, struck an unoccupied travel trailer parked at a local business and then struck the community center building in Byers.
Way’s pickup came to rest in the building. The driver was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The DPS report states witnesses observed the driver slumped over the center console prior to the crash. The investigation is ongoing.
| Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson reminds Texans that October 7 is the deadline to register to vote in time for the November election. “This is the final weekend to register or update your registration ahead of the Monday, October 7, deadline,” said Secretary Nelson. “If you plan to vote in November, now is the time to register and make sure your registration is up to date.” Texans can check their registration status on the My Voter Portal, which can be accessed through the “Am I Registered?” button at votetexas.gov. (MVP VIDEO) To be eligible to vote in Texas, you must be: A United States citizen A resident of the county where you register At least 18 years old on Election Day Texans can find a registration form at VoteTexas.gov. A voter will need to print, sign and mail in their registration application. Applications must be postmarked October 7 or earlier for the November election. |
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By BARBARA GREEN
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Starting at 7 a.m. Oct. 6 the City of Bowie will once more be without local emergency medical care as Faith Community Health System closes its emergency room, just a few weeks shy of its one-year anniversary.
It continues a tragic up and down cycle the city has dealt with since Bowie Memorial Hospital closed its doors on Nov. 16, 2015. That closure brought an end to 49 years of successful operation by a non-taxing hospital authority since May 1966.
That painful decision by the board back in 2015 came on the heels of the Nov. 3 election that failed to approve the creation of a taxing hospital district 1,732 to 1,548. About 130 hospital employees lost their jobs and another estimated 300-related jobs within the community were impacted.
This was the second failed hospital district election looking back to a May 2011 election that was defeated 1,644 to 973.
The controversy in this race came from including Forestburg Independent School District with Bowie ISD for the new district. The proposed tax rate offered to voters was 19 cents per $100 in property value and a rate not to exceed 40 cents.
When the hospital board began planning for this election it was announced some $1.2 million was cut from the hospital’s operating budget, while pending Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement cuts also reduced revenue with the hospital facing a cash shortfall of $900,000 in operations that year.
Unfunded federal mandates such as electric record management also hit the hospital to the tune of $1.2 million and had to be in place by 2013.
Those economic problems continued in the years that followed and rural hospitals continued to struggle and many close across the state. When the problems came to head again in mid-June 2015, former longtime administrator Lynn Heller said it is not an accident BMH got into this financial condition.
Read more on the history of the Bowie hospital in your weekend Bowie News.
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