Nocona City Council members and city staff put the final touches on the 2024-25 budget and 2024 tax rate at its Aug. 13 meeting.
The budget will be considered for formal adoption at a public hearing at 5 p.m. on Sept. 10. The tax rate hearing will be the next day at 8 a.m. Sept. 11.
City Secretary Revell Hardison said this budget is pretty much status quo with no major projects or purchases this year. It includes an across-the-board pay raise of 3% and the city was happy to see no increase in health insurance this year after a hefty more than 14% rate increase last year.

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Four people were transported for medical attention following a two-vehicle accident on Pelham Street in Bowie Sunday afternoon.
The accident occurred at 5:39 p.m. on Aug. 18 at 400 N. Pelham Street.
John Griffin, 69, Bowie, was driving a 2021 GMC Acadia with his wife Dawn as a passenger and their grandson. Griffin was southbound on Pelham while Kyler Willett, 17, Bowie, was northbound in a Ford Mustang.
The police report states the Mustang crossed over the marked yellow line causing the Acadia to swerve to the right after being struck on the driver’s side by the Mustang. The Griffin vehicle rolled causing damage to the top and passenger side of the vehicle.
Three in the Griffin vehicle were transported by EMS to Bowie ER, while Willett was transported by private vehicle to the ER.

An 82-year-old Bowie man was seriously injured after he drove his pickup through a fence and ran into a portable building located behind the junior high school at Mill and Pecan last Friday afternoon.
The accident occurred at 4:26 p.m. in the 400 block of North Mill and East Pecan. Terry Haralson, Bowie, was driving a Ford F150 pickup east on Pecan. The preliminary police report states he failed to stop at the intersection of East Pecan and Mill, driving into the junior high property striking a chain link fence, narrowly missing a large gas meter before striking a portable building at the back of BJH. Haralson was transported by Bowie EMS to the Bowie Emergency Room, and later airlifted to John Peter Smith where Monday he was in critical condition with multiple fractures and injuries.