NEWS
BEDC offering local business COVID-19 assistance grants
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
The Bowie Economic Development Coalition Team is launching the COVID-19 Emergency Grant Program providing assistance to local businesses suffering from financial impacts of the pandemic.
The team is composed of the Bowie Economic Development Corporation and the Bowie 4B Sales Tax Corporation. The purpose of the program is to retain local jobs that have been impacted by COVID-19 mitigation efforts and to serve as a bridge until further local, state or federal funding is available to businesses.
Janis Crawley, executive director of the BEDC, said the focus is on smaller companies and sole proprietors who have not received funding from the Small Business Administration disaster programs such as the paycheck protection program or economic injury disaster loan.
“The mom and pop places are hard-hit. There also may be those who have 10-15 employees who did not make the first cut in the PPP or other SBA programs, they need help. Then you have the one-person shop, say a hair dresser. Some didn’t know or did not apply to SBA for whatever reason. Most of our restaurants were assisted and many stayed open for take-out, but retail is going to suffer unless there is some assistance,” explained Crawley.
Both economic sales tax corporations allocated $50,000 each for a total of $100,000 to be used for local businesses to receive assistance not to exceed $2,500 per applicant.
Read the full story in the mid-week 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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