NEWS
Voter turnout tops 11.94% in county
There was an 11.94 percent turnout in Tuesday’s party primary election runoffs in Montague County.
Elections Administrator Ginger Wall reported 1,579 of the county’s 13,226 registered voters cast ballots Tuesday.
There were only two county race runoffs on the Republican ticket and one state-wide race on the Democratic ticket.
Assistant County Treasurer LaVonda Langford won a close race for county treasurer with 53.31 percent or 790 votes defeating Brandi Shipman, former elections administrator who had 692 votes or 46.69 percent.
Langford has been assistant treasurer since March 2013. The position came open when Treasurer Linda McGaughey opted to retire this year. There are no Democratic party challengers on the November election.
Retired law officer Kevin Benton defeated two-term justice of the peace two Karen Reynolds, 545 to 266 votes. He earned 67.20 percent of the vote over Reynolds’ 32.80 percent.
In the only Democratic state runoff, Lupe Valdez won 31 votes in the county, just one more than Andrew White’s 30 votes. Valdez, former chief of the Dallas Police Department, went on to defeat White statewide with 52.7 percent of the vote. She will face off against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in November.
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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