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.
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.
A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.
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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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