NEWS
BISD trustees face long agenda on July 21
The Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees face a hefty agenda of business when they meet at 5:30 p.m. on July 21.
Interim Superintendent Lee Ann Farris will review a slate of information items that include: Texas Association of School Boards 2025 nominations foe the board; schedule for collaborative school board training; BISD convocation on Aug. 4 invitation to board members; summer district planning; updates on items from the 89th Legislative session and federal grants; BISD budget workshop and future meeting dates.
The plans a called meeting on July 24 where it is expected to offer Dr. Donna L. Hale the position of superintendent. Approval of updated handbooks and code of conduct also will be on that agenda. A budget workshop meeting will be set, along with August meetings for the budget hearing, tax rate and budget adoption.
Principals, athletic director and finance director will make their monthly reports.
In action items the board will see the following: Resolution for the development of a school library advisory council or not per Senate Bill 13; resolution for home school participation in UIL activities per SB 401; resolution for use of personal communication devices per House Bill 1481; TASB local policy updates; professional development plan; appraisal calendar; declare any hazardous bus route conditions; call the November election for two places presently filled by Jeff Jackson, place three and Kent Dosch, place four; and consider proposed budgeted for the Montague, Jack and Clay County Appraisal District budgets.
A closed session has two topics: Possible action regarding employee request to continue personal business activity and compliance with HB 3372 and personnel considerations. Any action would occur back in open session.
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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