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)

The new year opens with the first county-wide event this week, the 2025 Montague County Youth Fair, Jan. 8-11 at various locations.
It should be a strong show with 1,160 entries across all the categories and 333 students represented. Here is the basic schedule of activities.
Leadership Day
This year’s contests will be at the Montague County Cowboy Church.
Competition day starts with check-in between 7-8 a.m. for speaking events and the robotics contest. Categories will include junior and senior prepared speaking, plus junior and senior Montague County ag. advocacy speaking. Robotics contest also takes place that morning.
Contestants sign in for the skill-a-thons from 12:30 to 1 p.m., followed by the beef and horse skill-a-thons. Sign-in for the barbecue cooking contests is from 1-2:30 p.m. with the contest starting at 3 p.m. Judging follows at 4 p.m. Awards will be given to the top two individuals for each division of the contest.
Home economics
Home economics entries can be dropped off at the Nocona Community Center from 4 to 6 p.m. on Jan. 7 and 7-9 a.m. on Jan. 8.
Judging will be from 10 a.m. to noon with results posted by 6 p.m. Public viewing is 8 a.m. to noon on Jan. 9. Home economics is a massive competition covering food, fabric and artworks.

Read the full schedule in your weekend Bowie News.

Top photo:A Nocona student works on a welding project for the 2025 youth fair. (Courtesy photo)