COUNTY LIFE
Enjoying the solitude of the great outdoors: New sporting club to open
By BARBARA GREEN
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The name says it all: Solitude Sporting Club, as the guests and members, are invited to leave their daily stress at the gate to enjoy the peace of 300 acres of outdoor sporting pleasure.
This new club outside of Alvord will celebrate its grand opening with a day of patriotic activities and outdoor activities from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 11. A flag-raising is planned for 10 a.m. and the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on America will be remembered.
Hot dogs and hamburgers will be served up free by Solitude staff. Guests are invited to bring their own shotgun shells, plus eye and ear protection to enjoy a free round of five-stand. Cart rental will be available to view the landscape traveling on the paths. The sporting clay course also will be open.
Solitude Sporting Club is located at 1807 N. Farm-to-Market Road 1655 outside Alvord. Development of this private sporting club and public clay range facility has been in the works for the past three to four months.
Read the full feature in your weekend 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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