COUNTY LIFE
Love of trains, history came early for author Steve Goen
By BARBARA GREEN
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Steve Goen has loved trains as long as he can remember.
Growing up with his grandparents, their home backed up to the Fort Worth and Denver Rail yard in Wichita Falls and they were only a block from the Katy RR yard. They taught him how to tell time by using the arrival of the passenger trains and his grandfather shared his own love of trains by showing him where he worked on building the railway into Oklahoma.
Goen came by his passion for all things train naturally and early, so it was no surprise he took his love of history and trains to become an author of books preserving that world.
The Wichita Falls native made a visit to Bowie recently to drop off a copy of his latest book, “Passenger Trains of Texas – Burlington Route,” at the Bowie Public Library and to talk about the latest release. This is Goen’s 11th book and the third volume in a series on Texas passenger trains. (pre-Amtrak). All of his books are on the railroads of Texas and the great southwest.
Read the full feature in the 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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