Shelling peas was just one of the many seasonal chores on a farm when Montague County was first settled. Participants in the Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum’s History Mystery Camp got to experience that activity last week. See more images from this exciting learning experience in this week’s edition of The Nocona News.

      Sergio Ayala, of the Gault School of Archeological Research, demonstrated some of the properties of chert and how striking it with a hard object can fracture the stone in the process of knapping the flint into a cutting tool. The demonstration took place at the Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum Saturday. See more images from…

Nocona General Hospital has received the TMF Hospital Quality Improvement Bronze Award from TMF® Health Quality Institute. Read more about this accomplishment in this week’s edition of The Nocona News.

By Tracy R. Mesler Work resumed Tuesday morning on the H.J. Justin Community Room as brick masons began attacking the north end of the original structure which has been open to the weather for months. “We’ve been waiting on them for months,” said City Manager Lynn Henley about the brick masons. “We’re going to try…

HENRIETTA — Nocona will host the second of two identical public hearings to unveil the US 82 Preliminary Environmental Assessment Document on June 25. The draft environmental assessment will be available for public review and TxDOT will be conducting the public hearings on the proposed project. These hearings are expected to be the last public meetings…

The Indian Swimmin’ Hole will be hosting its first “Flick N Float” on Saturday, June 22 beginning at 8:30 p.m. The movie will start at dark, announced Jeremy Kirk, pool manager. The concessions will be open and pizza available. Admission is $6 per person of $30 for the whole family. Every day the pool hits…

  By Tracy R. Mesler MONTAGUE – Nine members of 4-H chapters across Montague County addressed the county commissioner’s court Monday in the organization’s annual 4H report to the county. County Extension Agent Melanie Potter presented the group of youths to the court as each 4-H’er then described the activities and programs they participated in…