COUNTY LIFE
Deadline to register child for school supplies is Aug. 10
The deadline to sign a child up for school supplies through Bowie Gives Back is quickly approaching as students must be registered by Aug. 10.
Bowie Gives Back provides as many as 150 filled backpacks to local youngsters each August to help students kick off a successful school year. The program provides school supplies and backpacks to students in need, relying 100 percent on support from the community in the form of financial gifts, sponsorships and donations of products and services.
Those in need of school supplies must sign up their child to receive a backpack filled with everything they need to start the school year off right by Aug. 10. Signups are available at Advanced Rehab, 700 U.S. Hwy 287; The Bowie Mission, 201 E. Greenwood; Central Baptist Church, 710 W. Wise St.; Happy Hearts Preschool, 317 W. Pecan St., or you can contact Meghan Nored at 940-366-5520.
Handouts will take place from 6-8 p.m. on Aug. 16.
If you would like to donate school supplies or money, drop off locations are available at the same locations as sign ups. Checks may be made out to: Bowie Gives Back, 1750 State Hwy 101 in Bowie.
Items still desperately needed for Bowie Gives Back include jumbo glue sticks, regular glue sticks, Clorox wipes, hand sanitizer, gallon Ziplock baggies, snack size Ziplock baggies, plastic supply boxes, liquid glue, quart size Ziplock baggies, watercolors, paper folders with pocket and no brads, Kleenex, post it notes, composition notebooks, packs of pencil top erasers, four packs black dry erase markers, 24 pack crayons, eight count markers bold color, red grading pen packs, high school boy backpacks, map colors, black or blue pen packs and calculators.
The Montague County Commissioner’s Court will meet at 9 a.m. on Oct. 12 in the County Courtroom at the Courthouse Annex in Montague.
Commissioners are scheduled to consider issuing a proclamation declaring October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month within Montague County.
The court also will consider accepting $850 in unanticipated revenue for the sheriff’s office generated during National Night Out activities, alongside interlocal cooperation contracts between the Texas Department of Public Safety and Justices of the Peace for Precincts 1 and 2.
An executive session is scheduled to discuss personnel matters pertaining to sewer/septic inspector for the county. Any action would be taken back in open session.
The Oct. 9-11 Art of the Song Music and Art Festival opens Friday night for three days of art and entertainment in downtown Nocona.
The festival opens on Oct. 9 with a Chisholm Trail Art Association Preview Party from 5 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 9 at the H.J. Justin Building.
Come see all the entries for the adult show, which formally opens at 10 a.m. on Oct. 10.
Live music will be played by Full Circle Band.
Also on Oct. 9 enjoy a Nocona Nights Street Dance from 7 to 9 p.m. with the Mark Murphey and Highway 82 Band. Cost is $10 per ticket and $200 for a table seating eight. Bring your lawn chairs.
Read the full schedule of events for the festival in your Thursday Bowie News.
These students are nominees for the 2026 homecoming court at Gold-Burg High School. Homecoming royals will be crowned in pre-game ceremonies before the Bears take on Throckmorton at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 9. Pictured are: Freshmen: Kenzley Foster and Jackson Allen, freshmen; Yareli Aguirre and Jojuan Grace, sophomores; Zara Andrade, junior and Brayden Odom, Kaylie Duncan, both seniors. Not pictured: Caleb Epperson, junior and Keelyn Case, senior.
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