NEWS
Locals calls Women’s Marches ‘uplifting’ experience
Kristel Crumpler and her sister Merrily Sanders Porter wait to start the Austin’s Women’s March. (Courtesy photo)
By BARBARA GREEN
Two Bowie women who marched in Austin and Washington, D.C. this past Saturday called their experience “uplifting” and “life-changing” as they joined people from every walk of life to stand up for a vast spectrum of human rights in the Women’s March.
While it may have been called the Women’s March, the post-inaugrual events drew an estimated five million people around the world. In Washington an estimated one million people took part in the walk and closer to home in Austin the crowd was set at about 50,000.
Jan Browning and Kristel Crumpler are hometown Bowie girls who grew up and raised their families here. Browning traveled to the nation’s capitol for her march, while Crumpler went to Austin.
“We talked about it and thought it was going to be an historical event I wanted to be part of. I also want to hold the president and Congress accountable for issues I care about,” said Browning as she discussed the event with her son Chance who works in Washington D.C.
“It was an uplifting experience for me. It was not so much about protesting against issues as it was advocating for issues. It was me was standing up for my sons who deserve to be treated decently. It is a way to advocate for things I believe in and all human rights,” explained Crumpler who attended with her sister, Merrily Sanders Porter.
Read the full feature in the mid-week News.
Members of the Bowie City Council will face a brief agenda when they meet at 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the council chambers.
Following routine reports and consent agenda items, the council will consider a resolution authorizing submission of the city’s 2027/2028 Texas Community Development Block Grant application to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Then council members will consider approving Bob Blackburn for appointment as a reserve police officer with the Bowie Police Department.
Following an executive session, the council will discuss and potentially take action regarding the annual employment evaluations and duties of both the City Secretary and the Municipal Court Judge.
After nearly three months of no rain, Mother Nature brought the showers this past week.
Downtown Bowie rain reports varied from 7 to 8 inches, while the Saint Jo area reported a 10-inch total. The city water plant in Bowie reported 5.55 inches on Sept. 30 with 1.6 Oct. 1-3.
Nocona saw a total of 6.31 inches of rain across Sept. 26 to Oct. 3.
On Oct. 6, Lake Amon G. Carter saw a level of 917.39 mean sea level rising to 81.31% full. Just one week earlier the lake was 73.6% full, while one year ago it was 94.01%. The lake is full at 920msl.
Lake Nocona was 73.7% full at 823.02 on Oct 6. One week earlier it was 70.41% full and one year ago it was 92.41%. The lake is full at 827.5 msl.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
One Montague County City has joined the battle against any data centers being built in this county and there is a petition drive underway to urge the commissioner’s court to keep data centers out of Montague County.
At a Sept. 28 called meeting of the Saint Jo City Council, officials unanimously approved a resolution stating its opposition to the “siting, permitting, construction or operation of data centers and similar hyperscale computing facilities within the city limits or the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.”
City Secretary Debbie Dennis said several citizens approached Councilor Jack Dunn about their data center concerns and he helped prepare a resolution. The council gave unanimous support.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
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