SCHOOL NEWS
Nocona High Triennial arrives this week
(Top photo) Senior Nocona High School homecoming king and queen nominees are: (Back) Brayden West, Christhian Cortes, Owen Crossen and Arty Malone. (Front) Ava Davis, Bayler Smith, Ayden Patton and Aubree Kleinhans. The queen will be crowned Friday night at halftime and the king during the pep rally Thursday. (Photo by Todd Peterson)
Alumni of Nocona High School invite the community to attend the triennial homecoming celebration for Sept. 19-21.
With a theme of “Cartoons, Comics, or Games!,” the event will offer something for alumni, family and friends. This celebration is organized by the Nocona High School Ex-Students’ Association Homecoming Committee. Honor classes are the Classes of 1973, 1974 and 1975.
The week opens with a bonfire at 8 p.m. on airport road by the city dump. A pep rally follows the next day at 12:20 p.m. at the high school gym. The homecoming king will be crowned here. Nominees are: Brayden West, Christhian Cortes, Owen Crossen and Arty Malone.
The itinerary of events includes:
Sept. 18:
12:20 p.m. – High School Principal Heather Nobile extends an invitation to all exes to attend the homecoming pep rally in the high school gym
Sept. 19:
2 p.m. – A meet and greet will start at 2 p.m. Friday afternoon at the Tails N’ Trails Museum, 1522 Highway 82 and will run through the afternoon.
6:30 p.m. – The Pride of the Tribe marching band will perform.
7 p.m. – The Nocona Indians football team will face the Archer City Wildcats at 7 p.m. with the Homecoming Queen Coronation and fireworks during the halftime festivities at Jack Crain Stadium.
Homecoming queen nominees are: Ava Davis, Bayler Smith, Ayden Patton and Aubree Kleinhans.
Sept. 20:
9 a.m. – Registration and visitation will begin at Nocona High School. Prize drawing tickets will be available for sale at registration and visitation.
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Fish fry by the Carpenter Shop in Nocona Middle School Cafeteria.
1 p.m.- The program, featuring the Honor Classes and Nocona High School Hall of Honor recipients in the high school auditorium.
A slide show of the honor classes will be included as part of the program. Prize ticket winners drawn at the end of the honors program.
4 p.m. – The Parade of Classes will begin at Nocona High School. A trophy will be presented for the Best Float.
Sept. 21:
All churches welcome exes and their families to Sunday services in the community.
Bowie Independent School Trustees continued work on the 2026-27 budget during its Aug. 17 meeting including the creation of a salary schedule and establishing a proposed tax rate.
The budget and 2026 proposed tax rate will be up for adoption in an early morning meeting at 7 a.m. on Aug. 31, just at the brink of the new fiscal year.
The salary schedule is based in large part on the Texas Association of School Board’s salary study commissioned by the district. Per the study teacher salaries are above the market median at most benchmarked years. They are most competitive at year 0 where they are 5% above the market median and least competitive at year five where they are 1% below the marked median.
District officials initiated the salary study to get more definitive information where its salaries fall and while some areas were in the range, other category of employees fell below the market. Trustees discussed the need to move auxiliary staff and custodial closer to the market level.
Superintendent Donna Hale and Finance Director Paula Peterson explained the new schedule will not be an across-the-board percentage increase, but focus on getting all employee pay scales closer to the market averages.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonnline.com
Bowie Independent School District Trustees began plowing through the 2026-27 budget at its first workshop on Aug. 3.
The center of discussion was presentation of the salary study commissioned by the district through the Texas Association of School Boards. Laura Wurman of TASB explained how the data was gathered and developed into recommendations for the district.
Purpose of the study is to assess competitive pay levels for common jobs. Wurman said they analyses market data to determine where the district is at risk and identified priorities for pay system improvements.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
Diana Calderon will join the Bowie High School staff as assistant principal in the new school year.
She comes to Bowie from Lake Dallas Elementary School where she served as assistant principal since 2024. Her prior positions include administrator at Decatur High School from 2022-2024, and English as a second language director at Ponder High School and Middle School from 2017 to 2022.
Calderon’s educational background began with a bachelor of business management in 2007 from the University of Phoenix. She earned her master degree in bilingual education from Southern Methodist University in 2018 and a master’s in educational leadership also in 2018.
The educator is working on her doctorate of educational leadership.
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