NEWS
Hottest day of the year hits this week

By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
North Texas saw its hottest days of the year this week and in many areas broke records.
Bowie and Nocona experienced the highest temperatures of the year this past week and long stretches of triple-digit temperatures. Records from the National Weather Service show the all-time highest temperature for Wichita Falls was 117 degrees on June 28, 1980. While it got hot this week the high for the week was 114 on July 20. Five of the all-time highs were from June and July of 1980.
The summer of 2011 also is remembered for not only high heat but the extreme drought that accompanied it. There were more 100-degree days in 2011 than the entire summer of 2021. Bowie and Nocona lakes fell drastically during that time and conservation efforts were instituted.
During June Bowie had 14 days in the mid- to upper-90s and only one day over 100 on June 25, 100.04 degrees. However, in July there have been 17 days where the mercury topped 100. There was a nine-day stretch of 100-plus temps from July 12 through July 15, but after a two-day break at a high of 98.6, it went back up over 100 for four days.
This week the temperatures have topped out at 110.66 degrees on July 20 and 109.4 on July 21, dropping to a humid 94.82 on July 22. On July 8 the high was 108.32 and the day before it was 104.36.
Nocona recorded five days in June where the temperature was above 100 with a high of 102.38 degrees on June 13. The community has topped 100 every day since July 6. On July 20 the highest temperature of the period was 112.3 on July 20.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
NEWS
Bowie School Board to review superintendent candidate applications

Members of the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on June 16.
The big item on the agenda is the review of superintendent candidate applications and consider possible interview choice. Superintendent Blake Enlow resigned on May 23 and Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris has been serving as the interim.
That item will be in executive session along with professional educator contracts that need to be considered.
On the regular agenda Farris will update the board on education bills passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and their budget impacts, as well as discipline impacts. A budget workshop will be considered. She also will provide information on state assessment and board goals.
Campus administrators and directors will provide updates, along with the finance director.
In action items the board will review Texas Association of School Board update 124, consider changes to the 12-month and 11 employee dates and consider the purchase of a new band trailer not to exceed $80,000.
NEWS
Bowie News will be 1 day late due to June 19 holiday

Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves then Thursday Bowie News to a delivery date on Friday. It will be available in the stores at its regular time.
NEWS
Former DA Hall remains in jail

As of June 9 details on why an appeal bond was revoked on Casey Hall which prompted her arrest in Sulphur Springs on June 2 remain unclear.
The former 97th District Attorney was convicted of misapplication of fiduciary property and theft by a public servant on May 13 in the 16th District Court in Denton County.
The jury gave her a sentence of one year in state jail for misapplication of fiduciary property and six years probation for theft by a public servant.
The 38-year-old Hall was booked into the Hopkins County Jail on June 2 on a warrant after a Denton County judge revoked the appeal bond that was $10,000.
Hall filed her intent to appeal the conviction and sentence, so after posting a $10,000 bond, she was released on May 14 instead of beginning her sentence.
Denton County Court records indicated on June 2 Judge Sherry Shipman, who presided in the trial, declared Hall’s bond insufficient and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
There were rumors Hall may have opted to drop her appeal, but that information has not been confirmed through the court. As of June 9 Hall remained booked into the Hopkins County Jail.
-
NEWS3 years ago
2 hurt, 1 jailed after shooting incident north of Nocona
-
NEWS2 years ago
Suspect indicted, jailed in Tia Hutson murder
-
NEWS2 years ago
SO investigating possible murder/suicide
-
NEWS2 years ago
Wreck takes the life of BHS teen, 16
-
NEWS2 years ago
Murder unsolved – 1 year later Tia Hutson’s family angry, frustrated with no arrest
-
NEWS2 years ago
Sheriff’s office called out to infant’s death
-
NEWS2 years ago
Bowie Police face three-hour standoff after possible domestic fight
-
NEWS3 years ago
Driver stopped by a man running into the street, robbed at knifepoint