COUNTY LIFE
Job carries WEIGHT – CVE Trooper enjoys daily challenge
By BARBARA GREEN
Nearly 20,000 vehicles travel across Montague County each day via U.S. Highway 287. Of that total, between 28 to 38 percent is truck traffic or vehicles with double-axles.
That is only a portion of the highway traffic that passes through Montague County traveling along U.S. 81, U.S. 82 and all other roads in between.
Texas Highway Patrol Trooper 5 James Bacon serves as the commercial vehicle enforcement officer in Montague County, a job he took on in mid-2014.
For the last two and a half years he has worked CVE in Wise County. Bacon, a 16-year DPS veteran, makes his home in Bowie with his wife Melissa and son, Lance.
The trooper thought it might be a new challenge to move into CVE so when the opening came up in Wise County, he applied and got the post. Today he is a fully certified level 1 CVE officer who can examine anything on a commercial vehicle.
Meet the county CVE trooper and learn about his job featured in the weekend News. Pictured: Trooper James Bacon stands with one of the portable scale machines he uses in examining large commercial vehicles. (Photo by Barbara Green)
Nocona is preparing for the 74th annual Chisholm Trail Rodeo May 8 and 9 at the Chisholm Trail Arena.
The rodeo will take place at 7:30 p.m. Nightly with the Ryan Ready Band playing for the rodeo dance afterward on Saturday night. Tickets in advance are $12 and $15 at the gate.
All the traditional rodeo events are planned along with non-sanctioned events of junior barrels for 16 and under. There is $250 added each night, a jackpot nightly and contestants have a $50 entry fee. Entries open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on May 4-5.
The new Chisholm Trail Rodeo Queen and Princess will be crowned during Saturday night’s performance. Read about these young ladies in your Thursday Bowie New.
Clara Anderson
TxDOT is hosting a virtual meeting to review projects included in the 2027-2030 Rural TIP.
The program is at 4 p.m. on May 6 and 11:59 p.m. on May 19, all online at https://bit.ly/4uhDwMG
The Rural TIP is a list of local projects to be funded during the next four years in the Wichita Falls District of the Texas Department of Transportation.
The counties included are Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Montague, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, and Young. Transportation projects cannot receive federal funding unless they are included in the Rural TIP. This includes projects for private vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, public transport, and commercial vehicles.
A section of Roach Street has been closed for the last few weeks as a new sewer line was installed replacing old clay tile line. It is phase two of multi-phase sewer line project across the city funded through a Texas Water Development Board loan of more than $9.7 million. The project will replace nearly10 miles of aging lines. (News photo by Barbara Green)
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