COUNTY LIFE
New Year’s old wives’ tales, welcome 2025

The staff of The Bowie News welcome you to the new year in 2025. We send out blessings and good wishes for the incoming year.
The Farmer’s Almanac offers three lucky ways to usher in 2025.
- – Eat donuts and other ring-shaped food, it can supposedly bring fortune.
- – Be sure your cupboards are fully stocked to avoid a year of hardship.
- – Put your right foot down first when you get out of bed on New Year’s Day. If you touch the floor with your right foot upon waking, you’re paving the way for a year filled with good luck. (You’re quite literally starting the year on the “right” foot.)
- – Let the old year fly away. Opening all doors and windows at the stroke of midnight is a symbolic act of letting the old year escape.
- – Early bird gets the luck. A Polish tradition suggests that rising early on New Year’s Day sets the tone for the rest of the year.
- Lunar New Year 2025 (also known as Chinese New Year) begins on Jan. 29. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2025 is the Year of the Snake.
Each year is represented by one of the twelve animal signs in the Chinese zodiac. According to Chinese legend, Buddha asked all animals to meet him on New Year’s Day and named a year after the 12 who visited him. - The Bowie News office will be closed Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, but reopen Thursday ready to serve you in 2025.
COUNTY LIFE
Murder mystery comedy opens this weekend

The cast and crew of “A Family Reunion to Die For,” has been busy rehearsing for their murder mystery dinner theater production on May 30 and May 31.
The reunion soon turns sour with murder at a western-style bed and breakfast in the tropics.
Purchase tickets online at https://www.bowieallianceforeducationandthearts.com/events-1.
Show times are 6:30 p.m. on May 30 and May 31 with an afternoon show at noon on May 31 all at the Freedom Life Church. There will be live and silent auction.
All proceeds benefit Montague County students for scholarships in the arts. Come support these thespians.

Top photo – Rehearsals have been underway this past week for the new murder mystery dinner theater of the Bowie Alliance for Education and the Arts. (Photos by Barbara Green)
COUNTY LIFE
TxDOT making speed limit change in Nocona area

Speed limit changes are being put in place on FM 103 North of Nocona. The 60-mph zone is being pushed North of Grayson Street.
As part of the transition, the 45-mph speed limit will be extended just North of the Texas New Mexico Power Office. Drivers see 50 mph signs up to Grayson Street where it becomes a 60-mph zone.
Portable message boards were placed on FM 103 on May 27 to advise motorists of the upcoming changes. The new signs will be unveiled and be enforceable starting June 3.
Citizens and officials with the City of Nocona requested the changes. They were approved by the Texas Transportation Commission in April.
Drivers should be prepared to watch and observe these new speed limits signs in Nocona. Drive safely in Montague County.
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