NEWS
Commissioners table action on speed limits, stop signs
It took Montague County Commissioners less than 15 minutes to take care of its brief agenda on Monday morning.
Several of the items related to traffic signage were tabled to allow more research into the requirements. Commissioner Roy Darden of precinct one asked to add a 30 mph speed limit on Rosston Road, a 35 mph speed limit on Pleasant Hill Road and stops signs on Roth Road at Denver Road and Huddleston Road also at Denver Road.
While fellow commissioners indicated they had no qualms with the changes, Bob Langford and Mark Murphey both said the state has process for both signs, but they were not exactly sure what it is.
Langford said he recalls it can be 30 mph in a subdivision and 40 on a road. Someone also added the highway code sets the speed limits, which is 60 on a regular road unless posted otherwise. Sheriff Marshall Thomas added from what he read the process is rather vague.
Commissioner Darden said the problem on Rosston is he has no bar ditches and people going too fast is a hazard he wants to address. Murphey agreed a change may help and he thought a stop sign required a public hearing, but they want to make sure and do things right so it is enforceable. Langford added he has a few speed limits he would like to change also, so they can research the steps and go it right. Darden’s motion to table to allow for research was approved.
Members of the Montague County Historical Commission were approved for new two-year terms. The panel includes Beckey Scott, chairperson and Tommie Sappington, cemetery chairman and members Gale Cochran-Smith, Calvin Durham, Marjorie Hess, Robert Howington, Linda Mesler, Sheree Roberts, Robert Terry, Dan Watson, Wayne Wood, Margaret Woodyard and Larry Veale.
Payment was approved for Texas New Mexico Power for $10,113,63 from American Rescue Act Funds for a new power line to the wastewater treatment plant. County Judge Administrative Asssistant Angelia Richardson was named to serve as Nortex Regional Planning Commission Proxy.
And Sheriff Marshall Thomas presented his office’s annual Chapter 59 asset forfeiture report.
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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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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