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Jan 24, 2024

City buys street sweeper, price almost doubles

Published on By The Bowie City Council handled a brief agenda of business Monday

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The Bowie City Council handled a brief agenda of business Monday night approving the lease-purchase of a street sweeper and a proclamation for National Travel and Tourism Week.A resolution for the new sweeper came from Tymco and it was sticker shock for the council as the price almost doubled since they put $100,000 in the budget last fall for the equipment.City Manager Bert Cunningham said the total price today is $192,752.40, and he cannot point to any one thing that caused the increase, but it has gone up like everything else.

Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.

BISD Trustees meet honor graduates, hire new BHS assistant principal

BISD Trustees meet on personnel issues this Monday

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By BARBARA [email protected] staff of the Montague County Tax Appraisal District has fielded hundreds of phone calls since notices of appraised property value went out two weeks ago as owners question perceived possible losses in their homestead exemptions.Chief Appraiser Kim Haralson said while the wording has been in place since 2019 when the Texas Legislature made sweeping changes in the way values are presented and documented, this has been the first year so many have questioned it or confused it with their homestead exemption.That was the number one question to the staff: "Why has my homestead exemption gone down?" The chief appraiser said the confusion comes from the mandated wording calling what was previously called "capped value," now called homestead savings, but does not apply to homestead exemptions at all.

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These youngsters dive into the Bowie City Pool after it opened on June 6. The Nocona community pool also has opened this week. Watch for more photos in your weekend Bowie News. (Photos by Barbara Green)

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A 60-year-old Bowie man was killed when the motorcycle he was driving collided with a trailer being towed by a pickup truck Tuesday afternoon southwest of Montague.Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Marc Couch of media relations said the crash occurred at 1:55 p.m. on May 30 at the intersection of Lone Star Road and Hildreth Pool Road. 2.5 miles southwest of Montague.The accident involved a 2006 Suzuki motorcycle driven by Raymond Melton Mills, Bowie, and a 2017 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 pickup towing a 2020 Easton Car & Construction utility semi-trailer.According to the preliminary investigation, the DPS report the motorcycle was traveling north on Lone Star Road, while the pickup and trailer were going south on Lone Star Road at the intersection with Hildreth Pool. The truck was turning right onto Hildreth Pool when the motorcycle failed to yield half the roadway to the truck and trailer driven by Israel Lozano, 39, Decatur striking the towed trailer.Mills was ejected from the motorcycle striking the trailer. He was transported by air ambulance to Medical City Denton for treatment of his injuries, but died under a doctor's care due to the sustained injuries.This accident was investigated by Trooper Bradly S. Slade, Nocona, who was assisted by several other troopers and county sheriff's office deputies. The report states Melton was not wearing a helmet.

Correction- The print story stated the victim's name was Raymond Melton, but it has been corrected to read Raymond Melton Mills. We apologize for this error.

2 hurt, 1 jailed after shooting incident north of Nocona

SO investigating possible murder/suicide

Wreck takes the life of BHS teen, 16

Sheriff's office called out to infant's death

Bowie Police face three-hour standoff after possible domestic fight

Driver stopped by a man running into the street, robbed at knifepoint

UTV driver killed in crash

Police, sheriff investigate one possible suicide threat and one man who allegedly assaulted woman in a car