COUNTY LIFE
Montague County Youth Fair schedule (updated Jan. 4)
Jan. 4- Leadership Day, H.J. Justin Community Room, downtown Nocona
8:15 a.m. – Junior prepared speaking begins, senior extemporaneous speaking begins
9:15 a.m. – Junior extemporaneous speaking begins, senior prepared speaking begins
10:15 a.m. – Robotics contest begins
11:30-12:30 – Lunch break
12:30-1 p.m. Contestants check-in for skill-a-thons
1 p.m. – Beef and horse skills-a-thon
2-2:30 p.m. – Check in for barbecue contest
3 p.m. – Barbecue contest
4 p.m. – Meat entries turn in and judging begins
5 p.m. – Leadership Day Awards
Jan. 5 – Ag. Center and Nocona Community Center
7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. – Check-in of shop projects, community center
8 a.m. – Weigh-in market lambs, market goals, breeding sheep and breeding goats
Check-in all dairy heifers and poultry
9 a.m. – Poultry Show- ag center
10 a.m. – Farm shop judging begins at community center
11 a.m. – Dairy cattle show, ag center
Noon – Lamb show, ag center
2 p.m. – Goat show, ag center
5 p.m. – All Together Show, ag. center
4-6 p.m. – Check-in creative art, photograph, fabric, all at community center. Judging begins at 7 p.m.,
Jan. 6, ag. center
7-8 a.m. – Check-in all rabbits
7-9 a.m. – Check-in all food entries, community center
8-9 a.m. – Weigh-in of steers
8-10 a.m. – Check-in all heifers, weigh-in and classify all swine entries
9 a.m. – Rabbit show
10:30 a.m. – Judging food and creative arts, community center
2 p.m. – Heifer show, followed by steer show, ag. center
6 p.m. – Home economics results posted. Silent auction moved to Saturday during premium sale.
Jan. 7, ag. center
8 a.m. – Swine Show
9 a.m. – Public viewing of home economics projects, silent auction opens closes at noon, community center
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. – Pick up all home economics projects
5:30 p.m. – Clover Kids Parade, ag center
6:30 p.m. – Premium Sale
REMINDERS AND CHANGES FROM THE FAIR COMMITTEE POSTED ON Jan. 5
As we are getting geared up to start the 2023 MCYF, here are a couple of reminders and changes:
1. Wednesday is our first-ever Leadership Day at the Justin Building (the community room across from the Boot Store) in Nocona with 70 entries!
2. We will be finishing set up of the ring and pens Wednesday night at 6pm! Please come lend a hand if you can!
3. Ag Mech projects have an early check-in option Wednesday night from 5-8pm.
4. No animals at the premium auction on Saturday so it is IMPERATIVE that, if you make sale, you get your backdrop photos taken, either by the photographer or on your own, for the pictures to be included during the sale!
5. The creative art, food, photography, sewing, and shop project class winner Silent Auction that is normally held on Saturday morning HAS MOVED to Saturday night during the premium auction sale!
6. It is planned to have a live feed of the shows like we have had in years past…please check back here, but also the https://www.facebook.com/MONTAGUE-COUNTY-4-H-127727565100/
The Montague County Commissioner’s Court will meet at 9 a.m. on Oct. 12 in the County Courtroom at the Courthouse Annex in Montague.
Commissioners are scheduled to consider issuing a proclamation declaring October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month within Montague County.
The court also will consider accepting $850 in unanticipated revenue for the sheriff’s office generated during National Night Out activities, alongside interlocal cooperation contracts between the Texas Department of Public Safety and Justices of the Peace for Precincts 1 and 2.
An executive session is scheduled to discuss personnel matters pertaining to sewer/septic inspector for the county. Any action would be taken back in open session.
The Oct. 9-11 Art of the Song Music and Art Festival opens Friday night for three days of art and entertainment in downtown Nocona.
The festival opens on Oct. 9 with a Chisholm Trail Art Association Preview Party from 5 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 9 at the H.J. Justin Building.
Come see all the entries for the adult show, which formally opens at 10 a.m. on Oct. 10.
Live music will be played by Full Circle Band.
Also on Oct. 9 enjoy a Nocona Nights Street Dance from 7 to 9 p.m. with the Mark Murphey and Highway 82 Band. Cost is $10 per ticket and $200 for a table seating eight. Bring your lawn chairs.
Read the full schedule of events for the festival in your Thursday Bowie News.
These students are nominees for the 2026 homecoming court at Gold-Burg High School. Homecoming royals will be crowned in pre-game ceremonies before the Bears take on Throckmorton at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 9. Pictured are: Freshmen: Kenzley Foster and Jackson Allen, freshmen; Yareli Aguirre and Jojuan Grace, sophomores; Zara Andrade, junior and Brayden Odom, Kaylie Duncan, both seniors. Not pictured: Caleb Epperson, junior and Keelyn Case, senior.
-
NEWS3 years agoSuspect indicted, jailed in Tia Hutson murder
-
NEWS4 years agoWreck takes the life of BHS teen, 16
-
NEWS4 years ago2 hurt, 1 jailed after shooting incident north of Nocona
-
NEWS3 years agoMurder unsolved – 1 year later Tia Hutson’s family angry, frustrated with no arrest
-
NEWS3 years agoSO investigating possible murder/suicide
-
Show us something good9 years agoCountry music star children perform in Bowie
-
100th Birthday4 years agoLooking back at the 1958 Centennial edition of The Bowie News
-
NEWS3 years ago
Sheriff’s office called out to infant’s death