COUNTY LIFE
Alcohol petition running short, deadline Monday
By BARBARA GREEN
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Things don’t look promising for a petition seeking an election for alcohol sales in justice of the peace one as the organizers report they are short about 200 names just a few days before the Monday deadline.
Elections Administrator Ginger Wall said Thursday she has not received any of the signature pages in a petition seeking the legal sale of all alcoholic beverages in JP1.
James and Ellen Fee, who own a restaurant in Ringgold, requested the petition from the Montague County Commissioner’s Court in late May after providing the 10 required signatures for the petition application. Justice of the Peace One encompasses the northern half of the county.
The petition requires 35 percent of those who voted in the last governor’s election which is 910 and the applicant has 60 days to get the necessary signatures. Deadline is July 23.
Those signatures will be returned to the elections administrator to be verified, and then given to the commissioner’s court for a decision on calling an election.
Wall said she talked with James Fee Thursday to see if they could turn in a portion of the petition’s names so they could begin work on verifying the names; however, he said they were still shy about 200 names.
Filing for the city and school elections begins this week, but the Nov. 6 ballots also will bring one school bond election. Saturday is the opening day, and since offices are closed the filing will start Monday.
See all the election information in your weekend News.
The 22nd annual July Jam returns on July 27 to the Bowie Community Center West Hall, 413 Pelham Street in Bowie.
There will be a “chickin’ pickin’ fiddling fun time” as guests will be entertained by amazing fiddling tunes and enjoying a chicken meal with delicious homemade jams because it wouldn’t be July Jam without it.
Tickets are just $15 with the event starting at 6 p.m. The funds raised help provide awards for the Championship Fiddler Competition during Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival on Oct. 5.
This attracts talented musicians from all over to visit downtown Bowie to test their fiddling skills on stage in the Bowie Fire Hall on Oct. 5.
Along with the live fiddling entertainment, come hungry and be ready to outbid your neighbors at the silent auction or just stop by for a great meal, fellowship and soak in the air conditioning.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
The Nocona City Council met this past week making plans for budget and tax rate hearings.
Councilors received a brief update on the 2024-25 budget preparations. City Secretary Revell Hardison said the final proposal is almost complete and they now await the arrival of the no-new revenue tax rate that will be reviewed by the council after it is calculated by the tax collector.
The proposal includes a tax rate increase of about 3% similar to last year and there will be a small increase in water and sewer rates, but Hardison said the final crunch on those will come after the tax rate projections arrive.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
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