NEWS
Amateur radio group readies field day June 27-28
Your counties “hams” will join with thousands of amateur radio operators who will be showing off their emergency capabilities this weekend.
During the past year, the news has been full of reports of ham radio operators providing critical communications during unexpected emergencies in town across America.
Some of these emergencies included California wildfires, winter storms, tornadoes and other events world-wide. When trouble is brewing, Amateur Radio are often the first to provide rescuers with critical information and communications.
On the weekend of June 27-28, the public will have a chance to meet and talk with Montague Counties ham radio operators and see for themselves what the amateur radio service is about.
Showing the newest digital and satellite capabilities, voice communications and even historical Morse code, hams from across the USA will host public demonstrations.
This annual event, called “Field Day” is the climax for the week long “Amateur Radio Week” sponsored by the ARRL, the national association for the Amateur Radio. Using only emergency power supplies, ham operators will construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and back yards around the country.
Their slogan, “Ham radio works when other systems don’t” is more than just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis. More than 30,000 amateur radio operators participated in last year’s event.
“We hope that people will come to see for themselves, this is not your grandfather’s radio anymore,” said Allen Pitts of the ARRL. “The communications ham radio people can quickly create have saved many lives when other systems failed or were overloaded. And besides that – it’s fun.”
The Montague County Amateur Radio Club will be demonstrating amateur radio from noon to 10 p.m. on June 27 and from 8 a.m. to noon on June 28 at the Montague County Courthouse Annex Community Room in Montague.
Read more on this story in the Thursday Bowie News.
Pictured a previous field day event. (Bowie News file photo)
As of Thursday, the Lake Amon Carter water level has dropped below an elevation of 917.0 msl. This triggers the activation of the City of Bowie, TX Drought Contingency Plan. Therefore, the City of Bowie, TX and their water customers are now under Drought Stage 1 restrictions, which are considered voluntary. If Lake Amon Carter were to drop below 913.0 feet, the City of Bowie would enter Stage 2 mandatory restrictions.
Customers are asked to voluntarily comply with watering on Wednesday and Saturday if you live at an odd-numbered address and Thursday and Sunday if you live at an even-numbered address.
The board of directors for the Amon Carter Lake Water Supply District also ask its customers to follow the city’s restrictions since the district’s water comes through the Bowie system.
Bowie Independent School District Trustees will meet in a pair of meetings on Aug. 31 to finalize the budget and tax rate.
At 7 a.m. a public hearing on the budget and tax rate will be conducted.
At 7:10 a.m. action items include amending the 2025-26 budget as the fiscal year concludes Aug. 31. The board will designate any committed fund balanced for potential or future projects.
Trustees will adopt the budget for fund 199, 24 and 599 for 2026-27 school year, followed by the 2026 tax rate.
Also on the agenda is cancellation of the Nov. 3 election since there are no contested races.
An executive session is listed related to personnel, security, real property and legal counsel consultation.
The August session of the Montague County Grand Jury saw 15 cases presented, with all but one receive a no-bill. Four are sealed awaiting the arrest of a suspect.
The 97th District Attorney’s office reported the follow indictments out of this session. The no bill, which is a case jury felt did not warrant an indictment, was for possession of a controlled substance 1-4 grams.
The four sealed indictments are for: Professional failed to make required child abuse report intent to conceal, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, tamper/fabricate physical evidence with intent to impair and injury to a child/elderly/disabled person with intent of bodily injury (changed from previous case).
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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