Published: November 04, 2009 12:20 am      

Quinlan, Wolfe City prefer to stay dry

Cash will remain a community, while the cities of Quinlan and Wolfe City will stay dry, after voters in all three locations turned down proposals during special elections Tuesday.

Voters south of Greenville were deciding whether the Cash community would become Hunt County’s newest city.

Final unofficial vote totals show 62 ballots cast against incorporation (78.48 percent) to just 17 votes for incorporation (21.52 percent).

Jeramy Williams, Cody Baise and Jason B. Monroe were also seeking to become the first members of the city’s commission. Since Cash will not become a city, the votes were meaningless, but the final results showed Williams with 17 votes (41.46 percent), Monroe with 13 votes (31.71 percent) and Baise with 11 votes (26.83 percent).

Residents of Quinlan and Wolfe City were deciding on whether to allow sales of beer and wine at off-premise locations such as grocery stores and also whether to allow residents to purchase alcoholic beverages by the drink at licensed establishments without having to become a member of a private club.

In Quinlan, Proposition One was defeated by a vote of 121 votes against (62.05 percent) to 74 votes for (37.95 percent). Proposition 2 gathered 102 votes against (51.78 percent) to 95 votes for (48.22 percent).

In Wolfe City. Proposition One failed by a vote of 112 votes against (51.14 percent) to 107 votes for (48.46 percent). Proposition 2 was defeated by a vote of 115 votes against (52.27 percent) to 105 votes for (47.73 percent).

Voters were also deciding the fate of 11 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution. Voters in Hunt County voted in favor of all of the measures except Proposition 1, which would authorize the financing of the acquisition by municipalities and counties of buffer areas or open spaces adjacent to a military installation; Proposition 4, which would establish a national research university fund; and Proposition 5, which would authorize the legislature to authorize a single board of equalization for two or more adjoining appraisal entities.