NEWS

Nocona High senior arrested for ‘terroristic’ tweet

Published

6 years ago

02/28/2018

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Zachary Boyd

Following the most recently school shooting in Florida, communities, parents and students are unstandably concerned about any comments made about possible threats to their school. Those concerns went up like big red flag Sunday following a tweet from a Nocona senior.

An 18-year-old senior at Nocona High School was arrested Sunday night after tweeting an alleged threat against Nocona High School on his personal Twitter account.
The tweet was sent by Zachary Daniel Boyd, Nocona Hills, at 5:25 p.m. Sunday and said: “Nhs needa get shot up js (just saying)”
The arrest affidavit indicates NHS Principal Stephenie Wright began receiving numerous phone calls from parents about the post, and they were concerned about the safety of their children.
Phone calls also quickly poured into the Nocona Police Department said Chief Kent Holcomb.
Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas was called at 7:19 p.m. and he had the deputies start the warrant process based on a perceived threat.
Boyd was arrested at 10:25 p.m. on a complaint of terroristic threat, a third degree felony. A criminal trespass warning was later made on Boyd prohibiting him on any NISD properties. This was Boyd’s second arrest this month after being jailed on a complaint of driving while intoxicated earlier in February.

Read more on this story in the mid-week News.

NEWS

Rain runoff still helping lakes fill

Published

10 hours ago

05/08/2024

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Runoff from the ongoing spring rains are bringing great benefits for Montague County lakes as they continue to slowly rise.
Lake levels
Amon G. Carter
May 7 – 100% full,
920.86 msl
April 30 – 100% full,
920.68 msl
Lake is full at 920 msl

Lake Nocona
May 7 – 83.7% full,
824.79 msl
April 30 – 73.1% full,
822.91 msl
Lake full at 827.5 msl

NEWS

Pending litigation leads to executive session

Published

10 hours ago

05/08/2024

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Members of the Montague County Commissioner’s Court face a lengthy agenda when they meet at 9 a.m. on May 13.
An executive session is listed for deliberation on pending litigation. The court also will begin the preliminaries of budget planning with a workshop.
The court will review an engagement letter with Edgin, Parkman, Fleming and Fleming to conduct the annual outside audit.
The sheriff’s office staff will submit several items lead by a request to purchase a radio console for dispatch, along with a memo of understanding between Flock Safety and the SO and an application for participation with the Law Enforcement Support Office.
Commissioners will finally close out the Federal Emergency Management Agency project 4223 for county flood damage during the spring of 2015.

Read the full story on all the agenda topics in the mid-week Bowie News.

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Bowie BISD bond vote fails, 73% say no

Published

11 hours ago

05/08/2024

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By BARBARA GREEN
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Bowie Independent School District trustees said they wanted a mandate one way or another in regard to the $65.8 million bond proposal, which was one of multiple reasons it went back on the ballot.
While voter turnout out was smaller than the Nov. 7, 2023 election, the mandate was clear as 73.28% of voters said no to the bond. Trustees had hoped a massive education campaign and a single issue election would boost voter turnout, however, that was not the case.
BISD asked voters to reconsider the same $65.8 million proposal that failed 855-1,079 last November. In that Nov. 7 election 1,934 people voted.
On May 4 there were 1,785 total voters, 149 less than in the fall. There were 477 votes supporting the bond and 1,308 saying no. The bond failed by 831 votes with only 26.72% saying yes.
Forestburg ISD asked voters to consider a pair of infrastructure centered bonds and the results were close. The most recent bond election for FISD was in 2018 and it failed 301-195.

Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.