NEWS
By BARBARA GREEN
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Dean Grant brings 20 years of experience in the water and wastewater industry to his new position as public works director water/wastewater for the City of Bowie.
Grant replaces Ramon Johnson who left the position about three months ago to take a job closer to his family in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
The 39-year-old Grant and his wife, Christy, move to Bowie from Liberty Hill, located outside Georgetown in south Texas.
The couple has a son, Chandler who graduated high school and will be attending college; a daughter, Bailey, who will be a junior at Bowie High School; and daughter Ainsley who will be in eighth grade.
His most recent job was with Pumps of Houston where he worked in sales to utilities. Grant said while he liked the sales work for the past year and a half, he began to miss working in the field and plants.
Read the full story in the mid-week News.
A search is planned Tuesday for Bryce Dingler, missing for almost one week.
The Clay County Sheriff’s office has organized the search where law enforcement will be using search dogs, a plane and drones to search specific areas in Clay County, along with deputies and paramedics walking the area in hopes of finding Bryce. The group will be small as to not throw off the search dogs. The focus will be in the area where Dingler’s truck was found last Wednesday.
The Nocona News Facebook page stated Monday evening: “At the request of Dr. Len Dingler, while everyone’s desires to help find their missing son Bryce are appreciated, the family asks you limit your support tomorrow to prayers and allow the professionals do their jobs, unhindered with extra untrained bodies and false footprints which could divert their efforts.” Bryce is Len’s son.
By BARBARA GREEN
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A petition was filed mid-week with the 97th District Clerk seeking the removal of 97th District Attorney Casey Hall for “incompetency or official misconduct.”
The document was filed by Tim Cole, former DA and longtime area attorney, on July 17. Texas law allows any resident of the county where the allegations occurred to file such a petition on any elected official.
As of Friday noon, no judge had been assigned and Hall had not been served notice of the filing per the district court.
A recent example of this type of petition occurred in Clay County in January 2023 after Sheriff Jeff Lyde was arrested on charges of official oppression. Former District Judge Frank Douthitt filed that petition and the state was represented by Hall and the Clay County attorney Seth Slagle.
Casey Hall, DA for the three-county 97th District since 2016, was arrested on July 8 on a grand jury indictment for theft of property $2,500 to $30,000, a state jail felony. She was released on a $5,000 bond. The allegations stem from misappropriation of state grant funds with the investigation conducted by the Texas Attorney General’s staff.
Removal action
The removal action is directed to David Evans, judge of the 8th administrative judicial region, which has jurisdiction in this case. It seeks to have the officer removed for incompetency or official misconduct, acts or omissions while in the performance of her duties as the district attorney.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
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