COUNTY LIFE
By BARBARA GREEN
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Annalysa Elledge calls herself a “big idea girl” and she brings that vision and positive leadership to Bowie Intermediate School as its new assistant principal.
The 32-year-old educator was born in California, but her family moved to Bridgeport when she was a 15-year-old high school student. She adapted quickly to her new hometown graduating in 2006, one year early thanks to some extra credit hours.
Elledge recalls it was not too much of a culture shock moving to small-town Texas because her family came from a farming community that also was very diverse with lots of different cultures in California.
Choosing to go into education was always in her mind, but as a teen, she didn’t always make the best choices.
“I had a hard childhood and was that hard kid in school who got into fights, was suspended, told off teachers, and made some poor decisions with my behavior. I was so angry and it continued into high school, but it was here the teachers made a difference for me. They saw me as more than a kid with an attitude problem and poured themselves into me,” she explains.
Read the full feature in the mid-week Bowie News.
The 22nd annual July Jam returns on July 27 to the Bowie Community Center West Hall, 413 Pelham Street in Bowie.
There will be a “chickin’ pickin’ fiddling fun time” as guests will be entertained by amazing fiddling tunes and enjoying a chicken meal with delicious homemade jams because it wouldn’t be July Jam without it.
Tickets are just $15 with the event starting at 6 p.m. The funds raised help provide awards for the Championship Fiddler Competition during Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival on Oct. 5.
This attracts talented musicians from all over to visit downtown Bowie to test their fiddling skills on stage in the Bowie Fire Hall on Oct. 5.
Along with the live fiddling entertainment, come hungry and be ready to outbid your neighbors at the silent auction or just stop by for a great meal, fellowship and soak in the air conditioning.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
The Nocona City Council met this past week making plans for budget and tax rate hearings.
Councilors received a brief update on the 2024-25 budget preparations. City Secretary Revell Hardison said the final proposal is almost complete and they now await the arrival of the no-new revenue tax rate that will be reviewed by the council after it is calculated by the tax collector.
The proposal includes a tax rate increase of about 3% similar to last year and there will be a small increase in water and sewer rates, but Hardison said the final crunch on those will come after the tax rate projections arrive.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
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