SCHOOL NEWS
Nocona School Board to meet March 28
The Nocona School Board will review annual professional contracts and consider a joint election agreement as it meets at 7:30 p.m. on March 28.
Annual review of professional contracts for the 2016-2017 school year will be considered in executive session Monday night.
Amy Murphey, former Nocona school teacher and current Bowie Junior High principal, has been selected to replace Dr. Laura Ice as Nocona Middle School principal.
Dr. Ice has accepted an administrator position with Denton Independent School District.
The board will review the appointment of the election judge, alternate judge, election clerk and early voting clerk for the May 7 joint election agreement, along with an order of cancellation of trustee election due to unopposed candidates.
On the regular agenda, the superintendent will give a facility update report and the principals’ will give their monthly report on curriculum, co-curricular and extracurricular.
The board will hear the February financial reports, budget recap, budget amendment and the tax distribution summary.
A tax resale deed on Nocona Hills Lot 93 will be considered.
The Nocona school board will review instructional material allotment and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) certification.
Trustees will evaluate Policy 104 updates involving local and legal policies in homebound instruction, equal education opportunity and student support services, among others.
Abigail Hill, Nocona High School valedictorian, is the 2026 UIL feature writing state champion. Nocona faculty have been looking through school records and UIL records to see when Nocona last had someone won state. UIL record archives only date back to 1983 and they didn’t see anyone listed as winning a gold medal in Academic UIL. According to Nocona records, she is the first UIL Academic Champion since 1973. (Courtesy photo)
Bowie Elementary kindergarten students entertained the huge audience that attended the graduation ceremonies at the high school gym on May 21. Each kindergarten class performed a song for the guests. They also were invited to dress as their future career choice such as a doctor or a police officer.
Each class entertained with a song.
By Andy Newberry, MSU Texas
Midwestern State University junior Rykir Evans is not only building his skills during a NASA internship—he’s creating memories that will last a lifetime.
Evans has been a remote student at MSU Texas this semester while completing the internship. During that time, he had the opportunity to meet American naval aviator and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, as well as NASA Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz.
“It definitely has been an amazing experience thus far, and meeting all of the super inspirational figures in flesh and blood was definitely surreal,” Evans said.
Read the full story in Thursday’s Bowie News.
(Top photo) Rykir Evans had a chance meeting with Reid Wiseman NASA astronaut and commander of the Artemis II lunar fly-by mission. He also met famed NASA chief flight director Gene Kranz, who directed the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.
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