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2024 brings a Leap Year

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10 months ago

02/28/2024

Thursday is Feb. 29, which signals a Leap Year.

A Leap Year occurs due to our need to keep our modern-day Gregorian Calendar in alignment with the Earth’s revolutions around the Sun. It takes the Earth 365.242199 days—or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds—to circle once around the Sun.
Non-leap (common) years are exactly 52 weeks, plus one day. If your birthday falls on a Tuesday normally it will fall on a Wednesday the next year.
A leap year is 52 weeks plus two days. If your birthday fell on a Wednesday last year, in a leap year it “leaps” over Thursday and lands on Friday.

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Get ready to track Santa via NORAD on Christmas Eve

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23 hours ago

12/24/2024

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Visit noradsanta.org to track Santa as he heads out on his worldwide trek tomorrow night. The site has games and other fun activities for the entire family before the kids head off to bed and sleep before the Big Guy arrives in Texas.

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Santa Claus makes a stop at Bowie Elementary

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1 day ago

12/24/2024

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Brothers dressed in their holiday PJs get their pic with Santa. (Photo by Barbara Green)

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Bowie fish fry to assist youth fair sales on Jan. 4

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1 day ago

12/24/2024

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Enjoy a fish fry and live music concert on Jan. 4 all to support the 4-H and FFA youth of Montague County as they compete in the annual youth fair.
The annual Bowie fish fry for the Bowie buyers group will begin serving at 5:30 p.m. at the Bowie Community Center. Cost is $10 per plate. There will be a live auction at 7 p.m.
The evening’s concert will feature Dax Davis. Live music begins at 8:30 p.m. with the Davis concert at 9:30 p.m. Cost for the concert is $25 per ticket and $20 for a student, or $300 for a reserved table for eight.
Tickets are available at Fashion Floors, 202 N. Smythe or call 872-2468.