NEWS
Life changed in 2020 looking back to the top news of the year
“Each new year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year – the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show and the charity we forgot to offer.” Peggy Toney Horton
As the start of a new year dawns it can bring with it hope and hesitancy, faith and fear, all connected with the unknown. After such a perilous 2020 where each day seemed to bring new worries many want to run into 2021; unfortunately many of the same fears will carry into the new year. Each new year is like a blank slate where you can start anew. Here’s to 2021 where hope can flourish.
The Bowie News selected the top five news stories adding a few other notable honorable mentions for how they impacted their communities.
Coronavirus
Merriam Webster Dictionary selected pandemic as the Word of the Year based on the number of online searches. In its announcement, MWD officials stated a single word can sometimes define an era, so it seems fitting in this exceptionally difficult year, that word is pandemic.
Read the full story that lists the top news stories from 2020 in Montague County in your mid-week Bowie News.
A crew from Scarborough Engineering was working on control termination wiring in the control room of the Bowie Substation last week. They were integrating additional equipment including the new transformer. Once everything is connected it will go through a testing phase. The transformer project has been stalled during the past year awaiting the arrival of various parts. (News photo by Barbara Green
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
After more than a year of turmoil and upheaval it appears the Amon Carter Lake Water Supply Corporation is back on its feet with a slate of new board members and plans to review by-laws and operations.
Last August all the board members resigned in the wake of a lawsuit by a resident who could not obtain water for a small housing development despite being in the district. The property owner also accused the board of not following open meetings or open records laws, or its own by-laws.
After the board resigned a receivership was requested from the court and was named in December 2025. The receiver or temporary manager was Nocona attorney Zach Renfro, who was directed by the court to seek out possible directors to rehabilitate the association and assure it meets the obligation of continuing to provide water to more than 300 members.
The corporation board conducted its first general membership meeting on March 27 where a state of the corporation was given and new directors
named. They are Kevin McShan, president; Josh Swint, vice president; Carla Swofford, secretary; Wesley Kelly, treasurer; Zach Gunter, Rob Hankins and Chase Thomas, all directors.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
The Bowie City Council meeting scheduled for April 28 was canceled due to the lack of a quorum.
Councilors Boyd Hulstine, Stephanie Post and Brent Shaw were present along with Mayor Gaylynn Burris, Four council members are required. Laramie Truax, Laura Sproles and TJay McEwen were absent. The agenda items were expected to be placed on the next agenda of business for the council.
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NEWS2 years agoSuspect indicted, jailed in Tia Hutson murder
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NEWS3 years ago2 hurt, 1 jailed after shooting incident north of Nocona
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NEWS3 years agoSO investigating possible murder/suicide
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NEWS3 years agoWreck takes the life of BHS teen, 16
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NEWS3 years agoMurder unsolved – 1 year later Tia Hutson’s family angry, frustrated with no arrest
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Show us something good9 years agoCountry music star children perform in Bowie
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NEWS3 years ago
Sheriff’s office called out to infant’s death
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100th Birthday4 years agoLooking back at the 1958 Centennial edition of The Bowie News