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Bowie throws out the fall welcome mat

Bowie welcomes the fall season this weekend with one of its largest events the Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival on Oct. 5.
Hosted by Bowie Community Development, this festival celebrates the unique history of Bowie that developed out of a train track tent city. Young men from the burgeoning community would take bread or biscuits, along with fried chicken, and sell it to train passengers when the trains would stop in Bowie. Many of these chicken and bread boys went on to be prominent business people including Amon Carter.
Chicken and Bread Days celebrates its 29th year of filling the community with fun activities, music and food.
While the festival begins on Saturday, the fun starts the night before with the Harvest Sip & Stroll With Me on Oct. 4. There are 20 locations hosting Sip & Stroll stops throughout downtown Bowie from 5-8 p.m.
It is just $15 for a Sip & Stroll armband which includes a commemorative souvenir glass. Previous strollers are encouraged to bring their past Sip glass as present supplies are limited. All proceeds go to the beautification projects for City of Bowie Community Development.
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Bowie School Board to review superintendent candidate applications

Members of the Bowie Independent School District Board of Trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. on June 16.
The big item on the agenda is the review of superintendent candidate applications and consider possible interview choice. Superintendent Blake Enlow resigned on May 23 and Assistant Superintendent Lee Ann Farris has been serving as the interim.
That item will be in executive session along with professional educator contracts that need to be considered.
On the regular agenda Farris will update the board on education bills passed by the 89th Texas Legislature and their budget impacts, as well as discipline impacts. A budget workshop will be considered. She also will provide information on state assessment and board goals.
Campus administrators and directors will provide updates, along with the finance director.
In action items the board will review Texas Association of School Board update 124, consider changes to the 12-month and 11 employee dates and consider the purchase of a new band trailer not to exceed $80,000.
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Bowie News will be 1 day late due to June 19 holiday

Due to the June 19 Juneteenth federal holiday the U.S. Post Office will be closed, which moves then Thursday Bowie News to a delivery date on Friday. It will be available in the stores at its regular time.
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