NEWS
Set sail with Bowie Summer Reading Tails & Tales June 1
The theme for the 2021 Bowie Library Summer Reading program is “Tails & Tales,” setting sail on June 1 for a two-month sail.
Summer reading takes place at 10 a.m. on Tuesday mornings during June and July. All ages are welcome and it is free to the public.
This program encourages reading for young people throughout the summer offering incentives and prizes for those who submit and complete a reading log.
The Bowie News is joining the fun by providing Castaway Cove tickets. Each youngster who turns in a reading log will have their name entered into a drawing for the tickets at the News office.
The tickets will not be given away during the first week or last week.
The schedule for June will be as follows: June 1, Rise Performing Arts at The Story Walk in Pelham Park. “Giraffes Can’t Dance;” June 8, movie, “Call of the Wild” at the Bowie Community Center, popcorn provided; June 15, craft day at the library making zoo animal beaded necklaces; June 22, Amazing Magical Balloon Show at the community center and June 29, craft day at the library color your own zoo animal mask.
July 6, Mobile dairy at the community center with free ice cream; July 13, craft day at the library, tissue paper fishbowl or turtle; July 20, music program with the high school band at the community center and July 27, Creature Teacher, live animal program at the community center.
Direct any questions about summer reading to the library at 872-2681.
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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