COUNTY LIFE
Vaccine drive-up clinic closes at Nocona
Due to a decline in people seeking COVID-19 vaccinations the Texas Department of Emergency Management’s free, drive-up shot clinic offered twice-a-week in Nocona has closed up shop.
TDEM has been operating in Nocona during the past year providing free COVID testing and later the vaccine when it became available. Up until this week the clinic has been offered on Wednesday and Friday afternoons in the Nocona General Hospital parking lot. In recent months the numbers have dropped from a high of more than 100 back in early June to just under 60 the past two weeks.
Dr. Chance Dingler, county health authority, said those who received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at TDEM, will be contacted to let them know when they will come back to administer the second dose.
The local CVS and Walmart have been providing vaccinations. Visit the Texas Department of Health Services website for vaccine locations at:dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/immunize/vaccine.
Statewide the vaccine rate continues to hover just under 60%.
Montague County’s figures show 29.75% of its population 12 and up are fully vaccinated while 34.29% age 12 and up have received at least one dose.
Read more on this story in the weekend Bowie 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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