COUNTY LIFE
Jesse and Michelle Brown
By DEBRA DUNLAP
On Valentine’s Day, we often tell our loved ones, “I give you my heart.” Michelle Brown has gone far beyond that sentiment. She is giving her sweetheart one of her kidneys.
Michelle Wadsworth and Jesse Brown grew up together in Bowie. Buddies throughout high school, they ran with the same crowd and hung out together often.
The couple’s parents both still live in the Bowie area. Jesse’s parents are Jesse Sr. and Rosa Brown, and Michelle’s parents and Jimmy and Marie Wadsworth.
Jesse graduated from Bowie High School in 1988 and Michelle followed in 1989. As often happens with high school friends, the business of growing up, starting careers, and having families resulted in them losing touch with one another.
In 2010, the two reconnected on Facebook. Catching up with one another’s lives, they discovered that both of them were single again. Love bloomed, and the rest, as they say, is history. Read how Michelle is making plans to donate one of her healthy kidneys to her husband to save his life in the Valentine’s Day feature in your Saturday Bowie News. Pictured Jesse Brown and Michelle Wadsworth Brown
The 22nd annual July Jam returns on July 27 to the Bowie Community Center West Hall, 413 Pelham Street in Bowie.
There will be a “chickin’ pickin’ fiddling fun time” as guests will be entertained by amazing fiddling tunes and enjoying a chicken meal with delicious homemade jams because it wouldn’t be July Jam without it.
Tickets are just $15 with the event starting at 6 p.m. The funds raised help provide awards for the Championship Fiddler Competition during Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival on Oct. 5.
This attracts talented musicians from all over to visit downtown Bowie to test their fiddling skills on stage in the Bowie Fire Hall on Oct. 5.
Along with the live fiddling entertainment, come hungry and be ready to outbid your neighbors at the silent auction or just stop by for a great meal, fellowship and soak in the air conditioning.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
The Nocona City Council met this past week making plans for budget and tax rate hearings.
Councilors received a brief update on the 2024-25 budget preparations. City Secretary Revell Hardison said the final proposal is almost complete and they now await the arrival of the no-new revenue tax rate that will be reviewed by the council after it is calculated by the tax collector.
The proposal includes a tax rate increase of about 3% similar to last year and there will be a small increase in water and sewer rates, but Hardison said the final crunch on those will come after the tax rate projections arrive.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
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