NEWS
Residents encourages to sign up for emergency alerts
As spring’s stormy weather gears up, residents are reminded to become part of the City of Bowie Community Alert System.
Powered by Hyper-Reach, this free program alerts citizens in several different ways in the event of a weather incident, city utility issue or similar emergencies.
City Emergency Management Coordinator Kirk Higgins said with this system a citizen can select the alerts they wish to receive from community announcements, events and severe weather or law enforcement emergency alerts, as well as how your receive it whether it be a phone call, text message, e-mail or Alexa. Those selections can be changed at any time.
Community announcements will include utility outages, wildfires, floods, public health alerts, criminal activity, etc. Community events might be Jim Bowie Days, Chicken & Bread Days, Sip & Stroll, etc.
Severe weather alerts will include watches and warnings issued by the National Weather Service. This service is free of charge to residents of Bowie.
To sign up go to http://hyper-reach.com/txcityofbowiesignup.html. Text alerts to 940-531-9400 or call 940-531-9400. Tell your Alexa unit, “Alexa, enable Hyper-Reach.” There also is a QR code on the Emergency Communications Team Montague County, a resident may scan to sign up.
For residents outside the city limits, Montague County officials provide the i-INFO system. Go to https://www.co.montague.tx.us/page/montague.Registry or directly to Cross Timbers Resident Notices Registry where you can set up the alerts you would like to receive. There is no cost to register.
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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