NEWS

By BARBARA GREEN Montague County could face a major remodel of its 104-year-old courthouse if it is unable to obtain a variance related to the lack of a second approved fire exit off the top […]

Montague County Commissioners will consider adopting the 2016-17 budget and tax rate for 2016 when they meet at 9 a.m. on Aug. 22. A called meeting will be at 8:45 a.m. Monday for the public […]

Texas school children will wave good-bye to summer this week as the new school year begins. For Montague County school districts, all but one begins the year on Aug. 22. Bowie Independent School District will […]

An early morning wreck turned into a drug arrest Thursday for the Bowie Police Department. The police were called to a traffic accident at East Wise Street and the railroad bridge about 4 a.m. Aug. […]

By BARBARA GREEN The Bowie City Council had the first public hearing on the proposed 2016 tax rate on Tuesday night with no citizens in attendance. It was a brief agenda of business with the […]

By DANI BLACKBURN Nocona Independent School District officials will ask voters for a second time in less than six months to consider passing its first school bond in 38 years. The facility advisory committee went […]

More than 3,200 homes and businesses in the Nocona, Saint Jo, Montague and Ringgold areas were without power late Friday evening and during the early morning hours Saturday due to an apparent lightning strike on […]

By BARBARA GREEN The Texas Education Agency Monday released the 2016 state accountability ratings for more than 1,200 school districts and charters, as well as more than 8,600 campuses statewide. Districts, campuses, and charters receive […]

The first public hearing for the proposed 2016 tax rate for the City of Bowie will take place during the regular meeting at 6 p.m. on Aug. 16. The proposed rate is .5127 cents per […]

By BARBARA GREEN By early fall ground will be broken for the new Bowie Business Park, development by the Bowie Economic Development Corporation. On Wednesday the BEDC board of directors accepted the low bid from […]