NEWS
Nocona ISD preparing for final bond meeting on Monday
By DANI BLACKBURN
There may never be an ideal time to ask taxpayers to foot the bill for a new high school, but after 38 years with no school bond and an aging high school, there may never be a better time than now for Nocona.
School board officials are hoping Nocona residents are ready to look to the future as they ask voters for the second time in six months to approve a $16.8 million bond package to build a new high school.
The proposal is $1.7 million higher than the original proposal presented in May. The first proposal failed in the May election 552-426.
Officials were not willing to give up easy, and went back to the drawing board adding an a 6,100 square-foot pre-engineered vocational building detached from the high school, five more classrooms and 58 more seats in the gymnasium to the plan.
Read the full news feature in your weekend Bowie News. Pictured, Willow Street runs into the cattle guard where the land is located for the proposed Nocona High School. (Photo by Dani Blackburn)
NEWS
Bowie budget revenues not meeting projections
By BARBARA GREEN
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In its six-month financial report for fiscal 2024-25 Bowie City Council members saw budget revenues were not coming in as high as projected, despite the budget using conservative figures.
During the Monday meeting, Finance Director Pamela Woods reviewed the numbers at the half-way point of the year. She said all the department heads are doing well keeping their expenses within budget just below the 50% level or 49.26% overall. Despite that, expenses are above revenues in the utility fund by almost $100,000.
In the utility fund revenues are 46.11% of budget in water; 53.19% in sewer and 43.74% in electric. The total utility fund revenue is at 46.42% of the budget or $5,572,694.
Carol Moore also addressed the council on disrepair at the Pelham Park walking track urging it to make repairs and maintain it.
Read the full council story in the weekend Bowie News.
NEWS
Chain-reaction crash in work zone injures two
Two people were transported to the hospital with possible injuries from a three-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon in a highway department work zone on State Highway 59.
The accident occurred on Hwy 59 near Allison Road at 4:09 p.m. on May 14. There were three vehicles containing a total of six people.
Vehicle one driven by Carlin Jaster, Bowie with his passenger Zana Lara, Bowie, were traveling south on Hwy. 59. Two other vehicles driven by Kjersti Compton, Sunset and Edward Meadows, Grapevine were also southbound but stopped in a construction zone.
Jaster failed to control his speed and a chain-reaction crash occurred as he struck Compton who then hit Meadows.
Jaster and Lara were transported to Nocona General Hospital with non-incapacitating injuries. The others were uninjured. Tuesday was the first day for road construction along State Highway 59. Digital signs were posted for delays.
(Pictured above) Bowie Rural Fire Department and Bowie EMS responded to this three-vehicle chain reaction crash on State Highway 59 near Allison Road on Tuesday afternoon. There were a total of six people in the three vehicles, and two were transported to Nocona General with possible injuries. (Courtesy photo)
NEWS
DA reports 23 cases returned by Grand Jury
District Attorney Casey Hall reported a total of 23 people were issued indictments in the May session of the Montague County Grand Jury Monday.
Read the full list of the indictments in your weekend Bowie News.
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