SCHOOL NEWS
Bowie School Board meets Monday
Bowie Independent School District Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on July 18 with a lengthy agenda of annual business, plus a review of the district’s strategic plan and District of Innovation renewal process.
Kenny Miller, deputy executive director for the Region 9 Education Service Center, will discuss the district’s strategic plan.
For the DOI plan, there will be a public meeting to see the final version of the plan renewal.
The board will set meeting days in August as they finalize the budget and tax rate, and set hearing dates for those.
Superintendent Blake Enlow will provide the board with a school safety update.
In the past month the state agency and governor have sent out directives for districts to address and review their safety policies and concerns. Handbooks and Code of conduct will be reviewed.
They will include updates from administrators, a preliminary budget update and consideration of policy changes based on Texas Association of School Board updates.
SCHOOL NEWS
Nocona senior takes state feature writing title
Abigail Hill, Nocona High School valedictorian, is the 2026 UIL feature writing state champion. Nocona faculty have been looking through school records and UIL records to see when Nocona last had someone won state. UIL record archives only date back to 1983 and they didn’t see anyone listed as winning a gold medal in Academic UIL. According to Nocona records, she is the first UIL Academic Champion since 1973. (Courtesy photo)
SCHOOL NEWS
Bowie Kindergarten students graduate
Bowie Elementary kindergarten students entertained the huge audience that attended the graduation ceremonies at the high school gym on May 21. Each kindergarten class performed a song for the guests. They also were invited to dress as their future career choice such as a doctor or a police officer.

Each class entertained with a song.
SCHOOL NEWS
Gold-Burg grad serving NASA internship
By Andy Newberry, MSU Texas
Midwestern State University junior Rykir Evans is not only building his skills during a NASA internship—he’s creating memories that will last a lifetime.
Evans has been a remote student at MSU Texas this semester while completing the internship. During that time, he had the opportunity to meet American naval aviator and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, as well as NASA Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz.
“It definitely has been an amazing experience thus far, and meeting all of the super inspirational figures in flesh and blood was definitely surreal,” Evans said.
Read the full story in Thursday’s Bowie News.
(Top photo) Rykir Evans had a chance meeting with Reid Wiseman NASA astronaut and commander of the Artemis II lunar fly-by mission. He also met famed NASA chief flight director Gene Kranz, who directed the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.

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