By Norman Winter
This time of the year I always look forward to the announcement of the Pantone Color of the Year. Last year it was Peach Fuzz and the year before Viva Magenta.
I’ve always liked to try to join in and pick out flowers, you know to show that we are part of the team, a Pantone Partner if you will. Drum roll please, for 2025 the Pantone Color of Year is Mocha Mousse.
This ‘Garden Guy’ doesn’t do mousse. It’s not on my dessert menu and I don’t put it in or on my hair. There aren’t any brown flowers either, other than those that have passed on.
Before I could jump, Kate Spirgen Marketing Communications Specialist with Proven Winners got me off the proverbial ledge with a press release. That’s what communications gurus do, and as a garden guru I will hopefully get you back in the garden with Mocha Mousse, too.

Read the new Garden Guy column in your Thursday Bowie News.

Welcome to the first combined edition of The Bowie News, we hope you enjoy the things we have added and we invite your feedback to know what you would like to see.
Starting Jan. 9, there will only be one print edition of The Bowie News as we combine our former Wednesday and Saturday editions.
Your newspaper will have a Thursday dateline and the only real change in delivery will be one day later. Instead of Wednesday postal customers should receive it on Thursday, when it also will be delivered to the machines and racks. The e-subscription will arrive at 6 a.m. on Thursday.
Some of our standard pages have shifted their locations. The obituaries will now be on page 7A, while records will be on 6A and the community page remains on 12A. New additions include a home and garden page featuring prominent horticulturalist “The Garden Guy,” Norman Winter as he explores planting, gardens and southern horticulture. The food page, “On The Table,” will feature a new county columnist, Suzanne Storey, who will share what she believes is vital to each successful recipe, “love and luck.”
Section B will still showcase our county sports coverage, but also will include additional outdoor, college and professional sports coverages.
There will be a new “Out and About” page that will feature area cultural entertainment, library news, coming attractions and many other items of interest. Other coverage will include agriculture, business and health, plus expanded puzzles.
We hope you enjoy this evolution of local news coverage. We invite you to share your feedback on what you would like to see in your Bowie News
There also will be opportunities for questions and answers with our columnists, plus questions of the week on Facebook that will in turn be reported in the print edition. Email questions to [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from our Bowie News readers.

Musicians from around the area attended the New Year’s Eve jam for Jammin’ at the Justin. There was a variety of musicians and singers to entertain the big crowd, that also enjoyed lots of great good-luck foods served up by guests and the jam organizers. Along with the music groups played games and a few folks danced. (Photos by Barbara Green)