COUNTY LIFE
Reader’s response: Has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted your job or your family finances?
The Coronavirus pandemic is reaching into every corner of the earth and is no respecter of age, gender, financial status or culture. While the physical toll grows each day, the economic toll also mounts every minute as millions of Americans have lost their jobs, shuttered their businesses and pondered how the bills would get paid.
Montague County is a cross-section of North Texas with affluent and economically disadvantaged residents. It is difficult to get a true picture of where this crisis may end up, but The Bowie News asked in a Facebook poll: Has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted your job or your family’s finances?
The FB page received more than 40 responses from people who own businesses now closed, those who work at those small businesses or in the energy industry, many now furloughed or released from their job. Here is a sampling of the impact. We appreciate all who took part in the question poll.
Read the comments from the Reader’s Response poll in your weekend Bowie News.
The first official day of Spring arrives on March 20 and it’s time to dust off those winter doldrums and get your home brightened up and your yard prepared for the warming days of the new season when they arrive. Read The Bowie News Spring Home and Garden special section inside today’s edition.
Members of the Texas Economic Development Council announced the recipients of its annual Economic Excellence Recognition program for 2022 and the list 54 organizations included the Bowie Economic Development Corporation teams.
The awards were presented on Feb. 24 during the TEDC’s 2023 Legislative Conference in Austin. The Economic Excellence Recognition program provides recognition to economic development organizations that meet a desired threshold of professionalism.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
The Nocona City Council this week canceled its May election and moved its regular meeting to May 16 in order to give the oath of office to the incumbents taking their seats in the uncontested election.
Councilors met March 14 to address a brief agenda of business.
The Nocona Economic Development Corporation’s (Type A and B) request for $10,000 to the Nocona Youth Sports Association for the Little Dribbler’s Tournament was approved. City Secretary Revell Hardison said the funds will be used for directional signage and other similar items for the large number of people who attend the tournament.
The Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Association made a request for $1,600 from the hotel/motel tax funds to use for advertising its rodeo activities. Hardison said the association used to receive funds and have made the request to the hotel/motel tax committee in the last few years, but it was not approved.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
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