HOME
Community activism helped create North Central Texas College-Bowie
By BARBARA GREEN
This is part of an ongoing series by The Bowie News for its Build a Better Bowie campaign exploring assets and unique aspects of the Bowie community.
The completion of North Central Texas College’s Bowie campus in 2000 was the epitome of community activism. Citizens saw the need for a higher education facility and they took the steps necessary to get it done.
As the 2016 spring semester was completed there were 469 students enrolled, following 573 in the preceding semester.
In May the Montague County Foundation presented 33 students with Fall 2016 scholarships valued at $12,050, plus an additional 79 dual credit students received scholarships valued at $7,482.
Debbie Sharp, vice president for external affairs, reports for Fall 2015 65 students received scholarships valued at $29,836. Twenty percent of the 322 enrolled during that fall semester received foundation scholarship assistance.
Explore the development of the NCTC-Bowie campus since its inception 16 years ago and what the future has in store for the higher education facility.
Pictured above: Students in the Licensed Vocational Nursing program work in the computer lab. (Photo by Barbara Green)
The boil order for the 400 block of Decatur Street due to a line break and repair mid-week has been lifted.
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Coming this weekend is “Ruin at the Renaissance Banquet” the annual Murder Mystery Dinner Theater fundraiser brought to you by the MOCO Creative Arts Alliance (formally Bowie Alliance for Education and the Arts) is coming this weekend for two shows.
Join an evening for laughs, dramatic insults, and flare as we enjoy a feast for the senses with a catered meal, challenges, and fun. Who will be the ultimate champion?
The performances are 6:30 p.m. on May 29 and May 30 and noon on May 30. The $25 ticket cost includes the meal and show.
All funds raised will be part of the youth scholarship program. Tickets can be purchased at mococreativearts.com/.
There is a new flower showing up at garden centers that is pure magic, in fact its official name is Superbells Magic Double Grapefruit. If you aren’t familiar with the name, it is a calibrachoa, a petunia relative. Double gives reference to flowers that in this case look like miniature roses.
Magic is your key descriptor telling you that the flower changes colors. The flowers start off a pleasant lemon yellow and then age to a rose pink.
Of course, to get to rose pink you have various shades along the way. Another magical aspect to me, the guru of captivating combinations is that it seems no matter the color you choose it will go with Superbells Magic Double Grapefruit calibrachoa.
Read the full Garden Guy feature in the Thursday Bowie News.
-
NEWS3 years agoSuspect indicted, jailed in Tia Hutson murder
-
NEWS4 years ago2 hurt, 1 jailed after shooting incident north of Nocona
-
NEWS3 years agoSO investigating possible murder/suicide
-
NEWS3 years agoWreck takes the life of BHS teen, 16
-
NEWS3 years agoMurder unsolved – 1 year later Tia Hutson’s family angry, frustrated with no arrest
-
Show us something good9 years agoCountry music star children perform in Bowie
-
NEWS3 years ago
Sheriff’s office called out to infant’s death
-
100th Birthday4 years agoLooking back at the 1958 Centennial edition of The Bowie News