NEWS
Traffic light upgrades to begin
A $270,000 contract to upgrade the traffic lights in Nocona is mobilizing this week.
Adele Lewis, public information officer for the Wichita Falls Texas Department of Transportation office, said a contractor will be setting up barricades later this week in preparation of work beginning.
New signal poles, as well as traffic signals are being installed on U.S. Highway 82 at Farm-to-Market 103 and on U.S. 82 at State Highway 175.
FM 103 currently only has a span wire to hold its signal heads. Lewis said the upgrade will raise the new signals enough to avoid hits from over height loads experienced by the current signals.
Along with the new poles and signals, the intersections will be programmed to function as one intersection to improve service to motorists.
The contractor Durable Specialties will have about two months to complete the installation.
The regular meeting of the Bowie City Council for July 22 has been cancelled. City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris will be attending the Texas Public Power Association conference.
City of Bowie officials were on hand to inspect the emergency electrical generators that were delivered last week.
Mayor Gaylynn Burris and City Manager Bert Cunningham inspected one of three emergency electrical generators purchased as part of an ongoing Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant. They also talked with Jay Evans, head of the city electric department, and Jerry Sutton, director of the water treatment plant about the next step for installation of the generators.
This grant provides funding for one 150 kW and two 250 kW generators for use at the water treatment plant.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris talk with the electric and water department staff about the new generators. (Photo by Cindy Roller)
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