NEWS
TxDOT working around the clock
All Nine Counties: Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Montague, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, and Young.
Date: January 26, 2026, 3:00PM
WICHITA FALLS DISTRICT – It was a very productive day for TxDOT crews. Primary
highways in the District have at least one lane cleared. Howevwer, many still have patchy snow
and ice. Drivers also need to slow down on ramps, frontage roads, and intersections. They get
fewer passes with a snowplow which is trying to clear lanes on a freeway facility.
Wichita Falls: I-44, US 287, AND US 82 (Kell Fwy) in Wichita Falls have all lanes open. Traffic is
moving very well.
Gainesville: The mainlanes on I-35 in Gainesville are plowed and traffic is moving at moderate
speeds. However, the frontage roads and ramps on I-35 are still covered at this hour. Frontage
roads and ramps will be cleared tonight. Plows on US 82 in Gainesville are working hard on
getting one lane open and passable. Travel is difficult and discouraged.
While snowplows made process today on primary and secondary roads, they were unable to
work much on the Farm to Markets and lesser travel roadways in our nine-county region.
The entire district is concerned with refreezing tonight. Please be extremely cautious and expect
patchy ice or snow on bridges and overpasses. Black ice is possible since solar radiation
provided some melting even while temperatures were well below freezing.
Motorists should consult DriveTexas.Org and weather forecasts before leaving home.
DriveTexas will also show TxDOT Traffic Cameras from all over the state.
TxDOT will remain on duty 24 hours a day with no estimate of when we will return to normal
operations.
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If you experience an emergency on the road, call 9-1-1 for help and stay buckled up inside your vehicle.
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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