NEWS
‘Fitz’ new host for Bob Kingsley CT40; Bowie grad filling radio icon’s boots
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
As a youngster Cory Fitzner remembers riding from Wichita Falls to Bowie on the weekends to visit family and listening to “Bob Kingsley’s Top 40 Country Countdown.”
Today, Fitzner, a popular radio personality based in Seattle, will be sitting behind the late Bob Kingsley’s microphone and in his chair as the new host of “Bob Kingsley’s Country Top 40 With Fitz.”
He hosted his first show on Jan. 4-5. Fitz opened that program stating he sits in the seat with a “grateful and humble heart,” taking over from Kingsley who lead the program since 1978.
“It is an amazing honor to sit here and a bit overwhelming. I ask Bob, who I know is watching over us, to keep doing it,” said Fitz in the first show.
The 41-year-old radio man is the son of Linda and Bob Fitzner, and is a 1996 graduate of Bowie High School. He has been building his radio career the past 13 years in the Seattle area where he currently is the morning anchor at Hubbard country 98.9 KNUC. He also hosts The Fitz Show, The Hit List With Fitz and Nashville Minute with Fitz collectively heard on more than 140 stations.
Read the full story in your mid-week Bowie News.
On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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