NEWS
Bowie Police Departent ‘growing its own’ officers
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Bowie Police are shuffling once more as one officer leaves, a patrol officer shifts to school resource officer and newer officers to the department continue learning the ropes.
Police Chief Guy Green reported Paul Magers, SRO at the elementary, was leaving to take a similar job at Bridgeport Police Department. Green said he hated to lose the officer, but it is hard to compete with positions that pay $20,000 more a year. Magers has been with the department since 2018 and SRO since fall 2019.
Patrol Officer Jerry Dilday has been appointed to the SRO vacancy and is attending his first training for the new post. He has been with the department since April 2019.
BPD is now on the search once more for a patrol officer and Green said it continues to be difficult to get qualified applicants. As July came to a close the chief was happy to report he is talking with an experienced officer he hopes will come on board.
The department is budgeted for nine patrol officers, four SROs, two detectives, the assistant chief and the chief. If they fill the patrol position, the department will be fully staffed for the moment, but the pending retirement of Sgt. Kurt Berryman in October will change things once more. Bowie Independent School Districts pays the majority of the salaries for the SROs, while the city provides the vehicle and equipment. When school is out, the officers work patrol.
The last three positions in the department have been filled by what could be called “grow-your-own officers,” as the department paid for the officers to attend police academy in return for a three-year commitment to work at Bowie PD.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
Members of the Bowie City Council will face a brief agenda when they meet at 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the council chambers.
Following routine reports and consent agenda items, the council will consider a resolution authorizing submission of the city’s 2027/2028 Texas Community Development Block Grant application to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Then council members will consider approving Bob Blackburn for appointment as a reserve police officer with the Bowie Police Department.
Following an executive session, the council will discuss and potentially take action regarding the annual employment evaluations and duties of both the City Secretary and the Municipal Court Judge.
After nearly three months of no rain, Mother Nature brought the showers this past week.
Downtown Bowie rain reports varied from 7 to 8 inches, while the Saint Jo area reported a 10-inch total. The city water plant in Bowie reported 5.55 inches on Sept. 30 with 1.6 Oct. 1-3.
Nocona saw a total of 6.31 inches of rain across Sept. 26 to Oct. 3.
On Oct. 6, Lake Amon G. Carter saw a level of 917.39 mean sea level rising to 81.31% full. Just one week earlier the lake was 73.6% full, while one year ago it was 94.01%. The lake is full at 920msl.
Lake Nocona was 73.7% full at 823.02 on Oct 6. One week earlier it was 70.41% full and one year ago it was 92.41%. The lake is full at 827.5 msl.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
One Montague County City has joined the battle against any data centers being built in this county and there is a petition drive underway to urge the commissioner’s court to keep data centers out of Montague County.
At a Sept. 28 called meeting of the Saint Jo City Council, officials unanimously approved a resolution stating its opposition to the “siting, permitting, construction or operation of data centers and similar hyperscale computing facilities within the city limits or the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.”
City Secretary Debbie Dennis said several citizens approached Councilor Jack Dunn about their data center concerns and he helped prepare a resolution. The council gave unanimous support.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
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