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BISD may name a new basketball coach
Members of the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will address personnel issues, campus summer projects and recognize some state contest winners when they meet in called session at 5:30 p.m. on June 15.
The meeting opens with recognition of the Bowie High boy’s golf team that placed third in the state tournament, and meeting the band students who competed at state solo and ensemble events, some bringing home medals.
As the school year wraps up, plans are already underway for the next one that will be here in early August. Department updates will be given by transportation, food service and custodial, maintenance and technology.
Assistant Superintendent Christie Walker will give an Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund grant update and a back-to-school plan for using those funds. Other administrators also will provide campus updates.
In action items the board will look at the Montague, Jack and Clay County Tax Appraisal District budgets for 2024, along with numerous Texas Association of School Board local policy updates.
Superintendent Blake Enlow will bring information on a question raised last month regarding course offerings and course weights.
A closed session is planned for personnel possibly naming a new basketball coach and the superintendent’s summative evaluation and possible action on a related salary addendum.
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.
Montague County Judge Kevin Benton has signed an order lifting the outdoor burn ban effective Oct. 7.
Persons are still urged to be cautious when they are out working in the countryside to avoid any spark that could cause a wildfire.
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