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.
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.
Montague County Judge Kevin Benton has signed an order lifting the outdoor burn ban effective Oct. 7.
Persons are still urged to be cautious when they are out working in the countryside to avoid any spark that could cause a wildfire.
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