NEWS
Citizens share their anger with Bellevue School board on wind farm development
By BARBARA GREEN
The Bellevue School gym is usually filled with enthusiastic Eagles’ fans, but Tuesday night it was filled with more than 125 angry residents, the majority who do not want wind farms in Clay or neighboring Montague Counties.
School trustees provided an open forum for citizens to make their opinions public and out of the 20 citizens speaking only one offered support for the wind farm development. Officials with Apex Clean Energy spoke to the board, as did a representative of the Clay County Against Wind Farms group.
The Black Angus Wind project plans to produce 270 megawatts of electricity with the majority of the farm’s location in Bellevue Independent School District with a portion in neighboring Bowie ISD.
This new development would follow on the heels of the Shannon Wind Farm that went on line in December 2015 with 119 wind turbines spreading out across more than 10,000 acres in the southwest corner of the county producing 204 MW. Its construction was funded with the assistance of tax abatements from Midway ISD and Clay County. The farm is valued at $3 million.
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Click on the link below to take part in a survey about wind farm development in Montague County.
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A boil water order was implemented Monday afternoon for the area served at U.S. Highway 81 from Parker Drive to Old Bowie Lake as water line repairs were made. The order remains in place today. If you are affected by this order and need bottled water call 940-977-4941.
City of Bowie officials report Montague County, TX will be under an ELEVATED FIRE THREAT today. Please be careful. Hear Audio Alert:https://hrpow.us/H9U9gWU
A heat advisory also continues until 8 p.m. tonight. Remember to check on pets and older neighbors. Stay safe.
Photo of a previous grass fire, Bowie News file photo.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
While the budget was the primary topics for the Montague County Commissioners on Aug. 10, there were several other topics handled by the court.
Tax Assessor Collector Kathy Phillips presented the certification of value and rates for the 2026 taxes. The certified net values are $3,017,685,102 with rolling railroad stock at $15,954,716.
The county’s total taxable value is $3,033,639,818. Total appraised is $7,930,674,437, total assessed at $3,629,932,719 and total taxable value of new property at $93,632,505.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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