NEWS
Murals bring color to downtown
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Vintage murals dot the rural Texas landscape advertising businesses, towns or an event. Many have an aged patina or bright new colors, and even Bowie still has a few western murals of M.H. Henry that can still be seen.
In recent months a pair of local business people have brought new colorful murals to life on their properties thanks to a pair of local artists. The latest murals are located on the side of Creative Cakes, 104 Smythe; a Texas flag postcard in the alley between Montague Street and Wise and a Coca Cola sign going up top of the old Frank Green Carpet building. A mural of the city train station also is located inside the Chapman building.
The mural artist is Roger Whitaker, and he was assisted by his fiance Rachel Eastman. It was about two years ago he did his first mural locally, on the wall outside the front door of the Scoop Shack.
Read the full story in the weekend edition of The Bowie News.
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.
Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves the Thursday Bowie News to a Friday delivery date
It will be available in the stores at its regular time.
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