NEWS
‘Fitz’ new host for Bob Kingsley CT40; Bowie grad filling radio icon’s boots
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
As a youngster Cory Fitzner remembers riding from Wichita Falls to Bowie on the weekends to visit family and listening to “Bob Kingsley’s Top 40 Country Countdown.”
Today, Fitzner, a popular radio personality based in Seattle, will be sitting behind the late Bob Kingsley’s microphone and in his chair as the new host of “Bob Kingsley’s Country Top 40 With Fitz.”
He hosted his first show on Jan. 4-5. Fitz opened that program stating he sits in the seat with a “grateful and humble heart,” taking over from Kingsley who lead the program since 1978.
“It is an amazing honor to sit here and a bit overwhelming. I ask Bob, who I know is watching over us, to keep doing it,” said Fitz in the first show.
The 41-year-old radio man is the son of Linda and Bob Fitzner, and is a 1996 graduate of Bowie High School. He has been building his radio career the past 13 years in the Seattle area where he currently is the morning anchor at Hubbard country 98.9 KNUC. He also hosts The Fitz Show, The Hit List With Fitz and Nashville Minute with Fitz collectively heard on more than 140 stations.
Read the full story in your mid-week Bowie News.
Members of the Bowie City Council will face a brief agenda when they meet at 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the council chambers.
Following routine reports and consent agenda items, the council will consider a resolution authorizing submission of the city’s 2027/2028 Texas Community Development Block Grant application to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Then council members will consider approving Bob Blackburn for appointment as a reserve police officer with the Bowie Police Department.
Following an executive session, the council will discuss and potentially take action regarding the annual employment evaluations and duties of both the City Secretary and the Municipal Court Judge.
After nearly three months of no rain, Mother Nature brought the showers this past week.
Downtown Bowie rain reports varied from 7 to 8 inches, while the Saint Jo area reported a 10-inch total. The city water plant in Bowie reported 5.55 inches on Sept. 30 with 1.6 Oct. 1-3.
Nocona saw a total of 6.31 inches of rain across Sept. 26 to Oct. 3.
On Oct. 6, Lake Amon G. Carter saw a level of 917.39 mean sea level rising to 81.31% full. Just one week earlier the lake was 73.6% full, while one year ago it was 94.01%. The lake is full at 920msl.
Lake Nocona was 73.7% full at 823.02 on Oct 6. One week earlier it was 70.41% full and one year ago it was 92.41%. The lake is full at 827.5 msl.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
One Montague County City has joined the battle against any data centers being built in this county and there is a petition drive underway to urge the commissioner’s court to keep data centers out of Montague County.
At a Sept. 28 called meeting of the Saint Jo City Council, officials unanimously approved a resolution stating its opposition to the “siting, permitting, construction or operation of data centers and similar hyperscale computing facilities within the city limits or the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.”
City Secretary Debbie Dennis said several citizens approached Councilor Jack Dunn about their data center concerns and he helped prepare a resolution. The council gave unanimous support.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
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