NEWS
Boy remains in critical condition
A 12-year-old Nocona boy was seriously injured when he was struck by a pickup truck as he drove a four-wheeler along the shoulder of FM 175 Sunday afternoon.
Department of Public Safety Trooper Tony Cunningham said the accident occurred at 1 p.m. Sunday on Texas Highway 175, one-tenth of a mile north of Dixie School Road.
Ladawn Snapp, Lewisville, was driving a 2011 Ford F-150 pickup pulling a small flatbed utility trailer northbound on Highway 175. Cunningham said Snapp was passing a four-wheeler that was traveling on the improved shoulder of the highway when the driver of the four-wheeler turned left attempting to turn into a private drive.
A 12-year-old boy was driving the four-wheeler and was struck broadside. Cunningham said the child was attempting to turn into a private drive.
While the trooper did not identify the minor, The Bowie News has learned the youngster is Nocona sixth-grader Easton Womack, son of John and Stepheny Womack. The family lives a short distance from where the accident occurred. He remains in critical condition at a Dallas hospital. Read the full story in the mid-week News.
On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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