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Nocona City Council finalizes its budget
The Nocona City Council finalized its budget this week scheduling a budget hearing for Sept. 10.
Councilors met Tuesday addressing several annual agreements, but they also set a proposed tax rate and the budget.
The council is proposing a tax rate of .5058 cents per $100 in property value. That would be broken out into .4507 cents for maintenance and operation and .0551 for debt service. This amount also is the effective rate for 2019. The present tax rate is .53870 cents.
This budget based on that tax rate will raise $4,896 or .8 percent more in total property taxes. Of that amount $7,278.89 is tax revenue from new property added to the roll this year. Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
The Garden Guy surfed the web and stumbled across a photo you most likely have never seen. It featured three Proven Winners National Plants of the Year in a wonderful combination.
The flowers were the Safari Dusk Jamesbrittenia or South African phlox which is the ‘Annual of the Year.’ The combo also featured Supertunia Hoopla Vivid Orchid the ‘Petunia of the Year’ and Heart to Heart Chinook the ‘Caladium of the Year.’
Read the full story from The Garden Guy in your Thursday Bowie News.
Food is supposed to bring people together.
It sits at the center of our holidays, church potlucks, birthday parties, first dates, family reunions and late-night kitchen conversations. In Texas especially, I feel like feeding people is one of the purest forms of love we know. We celebrate with casseroles, comfort with pies, and gather around smoked meats and shared desserts.
Food is hospitality. Food is belonging.
But for some people, food is also calculation.
Before the appetizers even arrive, some of us are already scanning ingredients, evaluating risk, rehearsing questions, and trying to determine whether asking those questions is about to make everyone at the table uncomfortable.
Read the full feature in On The Table in your Thursday Bowie News.
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