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Montague, Tarrant Counties working together to share vaccines for 1A, 1B tiers
Montague and Tarrant Counties have worked out a plan to share vaccines for tier 1A and 1B.
Late Friday afternoon, Montague County Judge Kevin Benton sent out a release announcing the county will be working with Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley who agreed to assist Montague County in a “regional approach” to effectively make additional vaccines available to county citizens.
County citizens will be able to submit an application for the vaccine on the Tarrant County government website, but if approved will have to travel to that county for the shots.
The release states the Texas Department of State Health Services, Tarrant County Public Health, along with other Texas-based entities are providing initial vaccinations to those most at risk of exposure to COVID-19. These people have been designated as tiers 1A and 1B.
These groups include doctors, nurses, first responders, as well as individuals 65 and older and 18 and older with an underlying medical condition.
Tarrant County is distributing the Moderna vaccine at this time, which is only available to individuals 18 and older.
Benton said if you qualify for the vaccine under phase 1A and 1B groups, please be patient. Go to the link at the end of this story to sign up.
Follow the application process and it will allow you to sign up in the Tarrant County portal even though you are a Montague County resident. If the application is approved, the applicant will be contacted about a time and location.
Additional information will be released as it is available.
The judge concluded while a person would have to travel which is not optimum, it provides an option until additional vaccines are allocated to the counties. Use the link below to go to the Tarrant County site.
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
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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.
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Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
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