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Nocona Council approves budget, hears from citizens on clean-up ideas

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6 years ago

09/14/2019

Members of the Nocona City Council approved the 2019-20 budget and the 2019 tax rate during its Tuesday night meeting.
The panel also heard from a group of local citizens and officials from the Nocona Chamber of Commerce exploring avenues for clean-up activities in the community.
City Secretary Revell Hardison said there was a lengthy question and answer period on the clean-up activities as the citizens asked what they could and could not do in regard to high grass, trash and other similar things based on the city codes.
There also was discussion on expanding the hours at the convenience station which is open on Airport Road on Saturday morning. This group would like to have it open more hours.

The property owners in Nocona will see a slightly lower tax rate for 2019 as the council adopted .5058 cents, compared to the 2018 rate of .53870 cents per $100 in property value.
There are three operational budgets approved by the council: General operations, golf fund (Indian Oaks Golf Course) and the utility fund. The city also has oversight on the economic development corporation 4A and 4B board budgets which are funded through economic development sales taxes.
The operational budget for the city which includes general, golf and utility is projected at $3,675,317. This compares to $3,640,664 in 2018-19 following a budget adjustment during the year. The original budget was $3,618,864.

Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.

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Gold-Burg prepares for area one-act play

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4 days ago

04/10/2025

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Gold-Burg High School students will perform at area one-act competition at 9:30 a.m. on April 11 at Grayson County College.
Director Linda Fitzner said they present “Lady Precious Stream” followed by Newcastle, Irivium Academy, Sulphur Bluff, Avery and Bryson. She called it a “tough, tough area” as Bryson was at state the year before. Gold-Burg also has made a state run last year.

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Nocona Library staff presents Easter storytime

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4 days ago

04/10/2025

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Nocona Public Library and Friends of the Library will be hosting a children’s Easter story time at 10 a.m. on April 11.
Dean Prine will be reading to the children before they make a craft. Dean always makes it a fun story time. All children are invited to attend.
Summer is quickly approaching and the library is already making plans for our summer reading program. Starting June 1, the children can pick up their reading logs. A professional story teller will be visiting the library in July. More details will be released as time gets closer to summer.
The library has received several new books in the last week. “In To Deep” by Lee Child, “Paranoia” by James Patterson and “Far From Home” by Danielle Steel, are just a few new ones that are available for checkout.
Did you know that the library is not all about books? The library staff can make copies and send faxes for a small fee. It has computers for the public to use. Stop by and see what all you can do at the library. It is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

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Bowie High one-act advances to area

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4 days ago

04/10/2025

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Bowie High School’s one-act play, “View From The Bridge,” advanced out of bi-district to area after competing this past week.
Teacher and Director April Word said area will be on April 12 at Clyde High School. Bowie performs as the final play of the day.
Other schools performing will be Holliday, Early, Clyde, Ingram Moore and Jim Ned. Plays begin at noon that day and cost to watch is $10.
“The students were amazing at bi-district and had a tremendous performance. I could not have asked for more from them,” said Word.
At bi-district Lia Meier was named best performer, Corban Word was named to the All-Star Cast and Corben Wolsey, honorable mention All-Star Cast.
Aowyn Word received the All-Star Tech and the tech crew was named best overall. Crew members are Elise Fitch, TJ Ferguson, Keller Dosch, Adamari Alonso and Aowyn Word. “Break a leg” Jackrabbits.