NEWS
Chicken & Bread one of biggest in 28 years
The 28th Chicken & Bread Days Heritage Festival may be its biggest from a record Sip & Stroll event that opened the weekend Friday night to the first-ever bass tournament on Sunday, downtown Bowie was filled to the brim with festival-goers.
A beautiful fall weekend welcomed the festival as a cold front brought down those triple-digit temperatures to a more seasonable mercury. Strolling through downtown Saturday afternoon was sunny and brisk.
Chicken-Scratch Sip & Stroll saw large crowds strolling the participating merchants that totaled 35. There were fiddler players, carriage rides, food trucks and lots of shopping as folks enjoyed drinks and munchies. Business people reported there was a constant stream of folks all evening.
Read the full story including fiddle and art show results in the mid-week Bowie News and in the weekend edition watch for results from the car show.
On Friday city officials reported the intersection at Rock and Pillar was closed due to a sinkhole in the street. This area has been experiencing major drainage problems for many years damaging culverts and the street asphalt and concrete, with a portion of the street collapsing earlier in the spring. Drivers should avoid this area.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
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