COUNTY LIFE
By BARBARA GREEN
With almost all of his 10 years of teaching experience at the high school and middle school levels, Blake Enlow took a “roll of the dice” coming to Bowie in November 2011 to work as elementary school principal.
It was a winning hand with a job he fell in love with, but as this past school year began to wind down an opportunity to move over to the junior high principal came up and he grabbed it; however, that didn’t last long as less than a month later he was named high school principal.
Amy Murphey resigned from BJH to make a move to lead Nocona Middle School, and in a surprising resignation, Kelly Shackelford left BHS taking the principal’s job at Glen Rose High School. Shackelford had been principal since 2011 and with BISD since 2002.
Read the full feature in the mid-week News
Local libraries wrap up their children’s summer reading programs this week.
The Bowie Public Library brings the popular Creature Teacher with all their spectacular animals for the final event on July 23 at the Bowie Community Center.
The program begins at 10 am. The children also will receive their prize books for their summer logs.
The Nocona Public Library ends its program at 10 a.m. on July 24 at the H.J. Justin Building at 100 Clay Street. The program will be “Our Own Action Heroes -” Nocona fire, police and EMTs.
Top photo – Smokey Bear visiting Bowie last week at summer reading.
Rachel and Roger Whitaker gave this metal storage container a fresh look with this colorful mural at the Bowie Animal Shelter. (Photo by Barbara Green)
Swim lessons for youngsters of all ages were conducted the past two weeks at the city pool. It was a good place to be during this summer heat. See more photos in the weekend News. (Photos by Barbara Green)
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