COUNTY LIFE
Nocona city, school, hospital district election filing opens Jan. 19
On Jan. 19 filing for the May 3 Nocona elections opens and will run until Feb. 18.
Ballots will be open for three places on the Nocona City Council, two places on the Nocona Independent School District board of trustees and three places on the Nocona Hospital District board.
Places open on the city council are the seats presently filled by Tracy O’Neal, who also serves as mayor protem, Bob Ferguson and Steve Tettleton. All three of the men are longtime council members.
O’Neal, member of the council for 20 years, told The Nocona last week he did not plan to run and he felt 20 years was enough. Tettleton has served seven, two-year terms and Ferguson was appointed to the council in January 2009.
Place 14 on the NISD school board is presently served by Greg Fuller and place 13 by Erica Patton. Both places will be up for election. Board terms are three years in NISD.
The hospital board election for two-year terms will present the seats filled by Charles May, also board president, Cris Lemon and Ron Brown.
These Nocona entities are the only ones to conduct spring elections, as the remainder of the entities in the county moved elections to November.
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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