NEWS
Bowie VFW closes after 75 years; declining membership, economics major factors
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
“After 75 years, Bowie Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #8789 will cease to exist. The members are heartbroken, but due to low membership, the choice had to be made. It’s been an honor.”
With that brief Facebook post on Dec. 8, officials with the Bowie VFW Post announced the closure. In the comment section when several people asked if there was anything that could be done to save it, Stacy Smith, post commander, said the charter had already been relinquished so it was permanently closed.
“It’s heartbreaking to know after 75 years there is no longer a VFW Post,” Smith told The Bowie News Thursday. “It has been a great honor for our post to be a part of Bowie and to assist its veterans.”
The post has been struggling in recent years with declining membership. Back in mid-March, The Bowie News met with post officials to discuss some of the problems and efforts to save the post.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
The Nocona City Council approved a trio of Nocona Economic Development Corporation requests and considered infrastructure work questioned by a city council.
Councilors met on June 10. Two of the NEDC requests had already been presented with the timeclock for comment started. With that time limit over, the requests were finalized.
The Type A and B Boards will spend $19,225 at the Indian Oaks Golf Club for equipment, aerifying and top dressing the greens and batteries for rental carts. It also will expend $20,000 to the Nocona Chisholm Trail Rodeo Arena Committee to build new concrete bleachers, railings, fence and platform.
The third NEDC request is a new one related to a Type B board loan of $200,000 to Amy and Chris Nunneley for a new apartment and office construction project.
Read the full story in the Thursday Bowie News.
Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves the Thursday Bowie News to a Friday delivery date
It will be available in the stores at its regular time.
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