NEWS
Election filings end on Monday
With only a few days left for candidate filing in the Nov. 8 elections, several ballots remain vacant as prospects or incumbents wait until the last day on Aug. 22.
As of Friday, two people had filed for three Bowie City Council positions on the ballot. Councilor Kristi Bates filed for her precinct two place and Laura Sproles filed for precinct one. The places up for the vote are filled now by Laura Hefley, precinct one and Terry Gunter, precinct three. These are two-year terms.
Jeff Jackson filed for re-election to the Bowie Independent School District Board place three, along with Lee Hughes also an incumbent in place six running for the two-year unexpired term. A newcomer, David Kenton Dosch, in place four. Incumbent Trustee Daniel Deweber said he will not run.
Gold-Burg ISD has four places open on the ballot. Incumbents Raymond Rhyne, Brandy Hamilton and Adam Garcia have all filed. The remaining seat is presently filled by James Martin.
All four incumbents on the Prairie Valley School Board have filed: David Allan, Brant Carpenter, Cathy Goolsby and Ricky Roberts.
Forestburg ISD has four places on the ballot that are presently held by Charlie Lanier, Skip Mann, Billie Poirot and Joann Pople. On Friday
eight had filed for the races including all the incumbents plus Cody Wadsworth, Sandra Hensley, Fatima Esparza and Chris Jones.
No one has yet filed for the mayor’s race in the City of Saint Jo. Mayor Tom Weger has not filed and indicated in the spring he would not run.
Incumbent Councilors Leroy Voth and John Dunn have filed for re-election. They are joined by Colton Thomas.
The Saint Jo ISD will see two places open on the ballot with incumbents Mike Martin and Rodney Scwirczynski. No information was available on those filings.
Members of the Bowie City Council will face a brief agenda when they meet at 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the council chambers.
Following routine reports and consent agenda items, the council will consider a resolution authorizing submission of the city’s 2027/2028 Texas Community Development Block Grant application to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Then council members will consider approving Bob Blackburn for appointment as a reserve police officer with the Bowie Police Department.
Following an executive session, the council will discuss and potentially take action regarding the annual employment evaluations and duties of both the City Secretary and the Municipal Court Judge.
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.
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