NEWS
Bowie Trustees try out gym program; BHS principal leaving for superintendent job
By BARBARA GREEN
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Bowie School Trustees had some fun Monday night as they played on the elementary school’s new Lü interactive playground system.
Meeting locations were shifted to allow the board an opportunity to see how the new system works in the gym. After the business of the night, the board and administrators tried out the system. Principal Kathy Green coordinated a spelling game that required you hit the letter on the wall screen with a ball, and a few others of the program.
A large hardwood screen was built by volunteers in the gym with materials donated by Ace Hardware.
The digital program is directed to the screen that takes the impact of balls and reflects the action in the program. The system has a large assortment of interactive play programs, plus other learning programs. Everyone had a good time trying to outdo each other’s scores.
Superintendent Blake Enlow told the group High School Principal Sergio Menchaca will be leaving the district to take the superintendent’s position at Terrell County Independent School District at Anderson. He was named the lone finalist for the position at the April 21 meeting and the required 21-day waiting period ended on Wednesday with the board meeting that night. His appointment was approved by the Anderson board.
A called meeting has been called by the Bowie ISD Board for 7:30 a.m. May 24 to consider a high school principal.
The board also was introduced to the members of the top 10 percent of the senior class.
Read the full story of this week’s meeting in the weekend Bowie News.
City of Bowie officials were on hand to inspect the emergency electrical generators that were delivered last week.
Mayor Gaylynn Burris and City Manager Bert Cunningham inspected one of three emergency electrical generators purchased as part of an ongoing Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Grant. They also talked with Jay Evans, head of the city electric department, and Jerry Sutton, director of the water treatment plant about the next step for installation of the generators.
This grant provides funding for one 150 kW and two 250 kW generators for use at the water treatment plant.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
City Manager Bert Cunningham and Mayor Gaylynn Burris talk with the electric and water department staff about the new generators. (Photo by Cindy Roller)
No action was taken on a legal issue after members of the Bowie City Council met in a called closed session at 4 p.m. on July 12.
City Secretary Sandy Page said the council met for almost one hour for “consultation with attorney – Midwest Waste Services LLC vs. City of Bowie.
This lawsuit goes back to August 2019 when Midwest sued the city for its action requiring those who receive city water outside the city limits to use the designated waste collector, which is Waste Connections. This was shortly after the city signed a new long-term contract with WC.
The suit was dismissed in June 2020 on two points in the suit, but City Manager Bert Cunningham said a third point remained in mediation.
The Department of Public Safety has provided information on an auto vs. motorcycle accident that reportedly occurred on July 4.
James Lee Hilton, Nocona, was driving a 2019 Harley-Davidson motorcycle and Daniel Parra, Chico, was driving a 2018 Ford Fiesta. Both vehicles were north on State Highway 101 outside Sunset with the motorcycle behind the car.
Parra was attempting to turn left on Farm-to-Market Road 2265 when the motorcyclist attempted to unsafely pass to the left states the report. The bike struck the left side of the Fiesta. Both vehicles came to rest off the roadway on the northwest corner of SH 101 and FM 2265.
Hilton was transported to Denton Medical City with
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