NEWS
Bowie adds 5% credit card fee to pay bills
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Bowie City Councilors agreed there was a need to implement a credit card fee for city utility bills, however, the panel debated the amount eventually going with a 5% fee effective June 1.
City Manager Bert Cunningham and City Finance Director Pamela Woods presented the proposal at Monday’s meeting. It was tabled from a previous meeting to allow time to research the company Certified Payments to handle the process, along with researching all the fees and calculating what is needed to help pay for more than $92,000 in fees the city pays to process card payments.
The issue had been raised in prior years, but Cunningham reported about two months ago the fees were nearly $100,000 and the city needs to do something to at least break-even with the fees. He previously noted $100,000 would buy a pretty good piece of equipment for the city.
In February the manager reported he would be researching Certified Payments as a potential vendor to handle the process; however, he said Monday night after examining the costs it was about the same as they have now and would not save money. In addition, using the present billing system would not require retraining of employees or customers who pay online or with a card.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
NEWS
Bowie Council meets June 23
The Bowie City Council will meet at 6 p.m. on June 23.
The agenda includes both old and new business items.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will make his report on the 2026-27 budget process, bid opening for the Glenn Hills lift station on July 16 and the bid for Rock and Pillar repairs.
In new business a pair of planning and zoning committee recommendations for replats at 107 E. Nelson and 412 Green will be reviewed. An ordinance adopting an office of emergency management amending a present ordinance will be offered.
Old business will see the second reading of the pickleball court reservation fee ordinance and the ordinance prohibiting drilling and mining or the reopening of an abandoned well or mine in any public park in the city limits.
NEWS
City of Bowie reports heat advisory today
A HEAT ADVISORY will be in effect from noon until 9 p.m. today (Thursday). Please plan accordingly.
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Sheriff confirms human remains found in Sunset area
Montague County Sheriff Marshall Thomas has confirmed human skeletal remains were recovered on June 13 in the Sunset area, and they could possibly be those of a flight attendant believed to have been murdered almost a year ago in the Fort Worth.
The murder suspect, Dennis William Day, 66, admitted in June 2025 to strangling Rana Soluri, 47, an Envoy flight attendant who lived with Day during that last year. She was reported missing by a co-worker on June 11 and had not been seen or heard from since March 2025.
Day initially denied any involvement, but later admitted to the murder and indicated he dumped her body somewhere in the Montague County area. Lawmen have scoured the areas in questions in both Montague and Wise County, but found nothing.
Sheriff Thomas said on June 13 the SO received a call of possible skeletal remains in the Brushy Creek area north of Poss Dyer Lane on Farm-to-Market 1749. A deputy went to the scene and confirmed it was human remains.
Investigators responded and kept the scene secure overnight until staff from the University of North Texas Forensic Anthropology Center could arrive and made the recovery on June 14. A Texas Ranger and staff from the Fort Worth Police Department also were on scene.
“There is no determination made yet on how long it has been there,” said Thomas. “The anthropologist was pleased to recover most of the skeleton in these conditions. Heavy rains previously made the past searches difficult. We are working jointly with Fort Worth to make an identification and if it is the victim in their homicide.”
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