NEWS
Nocona ISD preparing for final bond meeting on Monday
By DANI BLACKBURN
There may never be an ideal time to ask taxpayers to foot the bill for a new high school, but after 38 years with no school bond and an aging high school, there may never be a better time than now for Nocona.
School board officials are hoping Nocona residents are ready to look to the future as they ask voters for the second time in six months to approve a $16.8 million bond package to build a new high school.
The proposal is $1.7 million higher than the original proposal presented in May. The first proposal failed in the May election 552-426.
Officials were not willing to give up easy, and went back to the drawing board adding an a 6,100 square-foot pre-engineered vocational building detached from the high school, five more classrooms and 58 more seats in the gymnasium to the plan.
Read the full news feature in your weekend Bowie News. Pictured, Willow Street runs into the cattle guard where the land is located for the proposed Nocona High School. (Photo by Dani Blackburn)
County officials approved a ban on outdoor burning effective on Jan. 12. The official order with the ban stipulations should be released later this morning.
Members of the Bowie City Council will meet for their first session of 2026 at 6 p.m. on Jan. 13.
Numerous items of new business fill the agenda including a resolution offered by the Bowie Economic Development Corporation to administer and fund an equipment purchase and installation project supporting a private capital investment exceeding $170,000 at 203 N. Mason. This is the location of Milano’s Pizza which has recently undergone a complete remodel.
The council will award a bid to Legend Bank as the city depository and a re-appointment will be made the Bowie Library Board. A memo of understanding with the Texas Division of Emergency Management and Texas Emergency Management Assistance Teams participating jurisdiction will be examined.
The final item is an ordinance abandoning a portion of the alley right-of-way connected with the sewer line replacement project in the Wilbarger Street area. The second reading of an ordinance also connected to this site also is listed.
City Manager Bert Cunningham will report on the downtown sidewalk project, the Rock and Pillar Street project and the substation work.
Montague County Commissioners will consider implementing a ban on outdoor burning when they meet at 9 a.m. on Jan. 13.
Conditions for dangerous wildfire continue to grow as the county has not received significant rainfall since early December. Unseasonably high temperatures also contribute to dry conditions.
Other agenda topics will include: A resolution allowed selected trustee properties to be resold through a public online auction; accepting unanticipated revenue of $2,000 in the sheriff’s office; notice of election for the 2026 join primary elections in March; consider applying for the rural ambulance grant program; precinct four request to use an auction company to sell surplus items; precinct four request to clear a fence line on Carpenter Road and consider going out for fuel bids.
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