The tap dance countdown is on as many local celebrities will be strutting their stuff on the dance floor on March 25 to help raise scholarship money for Montague County students to attend North Central Texas College.
The Rotary Club of Bowie and the North Central Texas College Montague County Foundation have teamed up to bring back their popular fundraiser, a Dancing to the Stars Competition.
Doors open at the Bowie Community Center, at 6 p.m. with social networking. A catered dinner will be served in the gym.

Tickets are $50 each at the door.

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Things are going to get Western during the Sixth Annual Real West Symposium, April 28-30, in Saint Jo.
The Real West Symposium explores what the West was actually like in the 1800s. An authentic 1850s’ cowtown, Saint Jo, is located on the storied Chisholm Trail. With a tree-covered town square and authentic 1800s’ store fronts, it’s the perfect place for Western history to come to life.
This year’s noted speakers include:
•Michael Grauer, director of the Cowboy Hall of Fame
•Dr. Jody Guinn, director of the Texas Rangers Museum/Foundation
•Dr. Richard McCaslin of the University of North Texas
•Dr. Byron Price, retired director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of the American West
•Art T. Burton, historian and authority on Bass Reeves, accompanied by Ernest Marsh, a Bass Reeves re-enactor
•Michael Martin Murphey, recording artist and authority on the music of the old West.

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Bowie Community Development coordinated the new St. Paddy’s Day Sip & Stroll with Me event that was hosted last Friday night by 25 participating merchants, who had requested a first-quarter event. The open house stores were spread out across downtown welcomed families and small groups going from store to store. (Above) The team at H&R Block were serving up warm Irish coffee which was welcomed by those walking outside in the chill of early spring.