By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Bowie City Councilors conducted a brief agenda of business Tuesday night.
City Manager Bert Cunningham reported the city received a $6,800 grant to support a clean-up week Nov. 17-21.
He attended the grant scoring meeting in Wichita Falls on Monday where it was announced the total of grant requests came in at $84,500. With $85,000 available all the cities were funded.
During the clean-up week dumpsters will be set up at the Second Monday parking area and citizens can provide their utility bill as an identifier to dump free.

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Just a few weeks before the major mid-term elections Texas election officials had an unknown number of voter registration applications dumped on them that have not been processed due to an error by the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Montague County was not immune as the local elections administrator Ginger Wall reports they received approximately 517 records to process as a result of a “technological error” at the state level that caused this major backlog.
The DPS system failed to send the applications, submitted by voters through its online driver’s license portal, to county voter registrars. The backlog is at least 200,000 voter registration applications and updates.

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A utility vehicle accident took the life of a 14 year-old boy and seriously injured a 12-year-old boy the evening of Sept. 25 on Hildreth Pool Road.
The UTV driver,was arrested later on a complaint of driving while intoxicated.
The Department of Public Safety officers report the preliminary investigation revealed a Polaris General UTV was traveling east on Hildreth Pool Road. The driver approached a curve on a hillcrest and took “faulty evasive action” striking another vehicle.
The UTV left the roadway striking a tree and catching fire after the impact. The 14-year-old male passenger was pronounced deceased on the scene from his injuries.
The 12-year-old male received serious injuries and was taken to Cook Children’s Medical Center and as of Sunday remained in critical condition from his injuries.
Matthew Garrett was treated for minor injuries at Nocona General Hospital. The Sept. 25 Montague County jail log showed Garrett was arrested on a complaint of driving while intoxicated. Bond was not stated on the log.
The accident remains under investigation.