COUNTY LIFE
Farmer/rancher symposium on Feb. 17
The annual Tri-County Farmer and Rancher Symposium will be on Feb. 17 at the Gainesville Civic Center located at 311 S. Weaver.
This annual program is geared toward those persons who have a private applicator, commercial applicators and/or a non-commercial license to obtain five continuing education units.
The program will focus on the following topics: Pesticides for grazing and hay pastures; pesticide laws and regulations; small grain disease and insect management; feral hog management; internal and external parasites of livestock.
Lunch also will be served. The fee is $40 at the door. If you register online to watch it virtually, there will be a small fee added to that event.
Registration will begin for the in-person event at 8 a.m. with the program starting at 9 a.m. and concluding by 3 p.m.
You can call the AgriLife Extension office at 940-894-2831 to RSVP or if you can not attend in person you can sign up to watch it online at: eventbrite.com/e/tricounty-farmer-and-ranchersymposium-2022-tickets-247302096227.
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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