NEWS
Polhemus retains DA post, DeMoss wins constable 2
Montague County saw a strong voter turnout for Tuesday’s party primaries with 33.30 percent of 4,479 of its 13,450 registered voters cast ballots.
County Elections Administrator Ginger Wall said while there were a few long lines during the busiest times primarily after 5 p.m., the new electronic voting machines ran well.
“At the busiest locations like the Bowie library and Bible Baptist they had some longer wait times. Also it was a longer ballot with those 10 propositions which took time to read causing a bit of a back-up,” said Wall.
While voters had to choose their party of preference for the primary, the largest percentage of voters went Republican, many in order to have a say in the only two county contested races on that ballot. Winners of the primary will now either go to the general election ballot in November or face a May 26 runoff election.
In the hotly contested election for 97th District Attorney, incumbent Casey Polhemus, Bowie, won her second full term after a tough challenge from William Knowlton, Henrietta. Polhemus received 4,872 votes to Knowlton’s 4,113 across Montague, Archer and Clay Counties.
Read the full story on the two contested local races and the pending runoffs in your weekend Bowie News.
On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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