SCHOOL NEWS
Bowie School Trustees to meet on Monday
Bowie School Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 7 for a called session that includes numerous budgetary items and items to start the new school year.
A budget workshop opens the agenda as Chief Financial Officer Jonathan Pastusek presents the budget that will not include the certified property values and related projected revenue. The board will consider a tax rate and scheduling the various public hearings for the budget items.
During discussion, Superintendent Steven Monkres will present information facility and website updates, the state school board convention, legislative activities and the district’s strategic plan.
Campus principals will bring personnel updates and changes in the student handbook. The handbook and student code of conduct also will be presented for action.
In action items, the district will consider relinquishing its interest in the old Bellmire Nursing Home property on Rock Street to the city. It was foreclosed and there were no buyers in the tax sale, so it has reverted to the taxing entities. Montague County has already relinquished its interest.
Trustees also will formally call the Nov. 7 election where three board positions will be on the ballot.
Abigail Hill, Nocona High School valedictorian, is the 2026 UIL feature writing state champion. Nocona faculty have been looking through school records and UIL records to see when Nocona last had someone won state. UIL record archives only date back to 1983 and they didn’t see anyone listed as winning a gold medal in Academic UIL. According to Nocona records, she is the first UIL Academic Champion since 1973. (Courtesy photo)
Bowie Elementary kindergarten students entertained the huge audience that attended the graduation ceremonies at the high school gym on May 21. Each kindergarten class performed a song for the guests. They also were invited to dress as their future career choice such as a doctor or a police officer.
Each class entertained with a song.
By Andy Newberry, MSU Texas
Midwestern State University junior Rykir Evans is not only building his skills during a NASA internship—he’s creating memories that will last a lifetime.
Evans has been a remote student at MSU Texas this semester while completing the internship. During that time, he had the opportunity to meet American naval aviator and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, as well as NASA Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz.
“It definitely has been an amazing experience thus far, and meeting all of the super inspirational figures in flesh and blood was definitely surreal,” Evans said.
Read the full story in Thursday’s Bowie News.
(Top photo) Rykir Evans had a chance meeting with Reid Wiseman NASA astronaut and commander of the Artemis II lunar fly-by mission. He also met famed NASA chief flight director Gene Kranz, who directed the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.
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