Art and song joint together in Nocona
Music and art will combine forces this weekend as sweep through Nocona as the inaugural Art of the Song takes place co-sponsored by the Chisholm Trail Art Assocation and Nocona Nights. The Art of the Song will be a fun and exciting event-filled weekend full of music and art Oct. 11-12. It may be the…
Read MoreLady Indians open district with straight set win
PV battle Lady Cats tough
The Prairie Valley lady Bulldogs fell to Class 2A Archer City last Tuesday 23-25, 24-26, 10-25. For district action, the University Interscholastic League has merged Class 1A (non-football or 6-man football sized schools) with Class 2A (smallest 12-man football sized schools) in the same districts then dividing out the top two finishers from each classification…
Read MoreLady Indians open district with sweep
With team leader Averee Kleinhans limited to defensive duties because of a bruised foot, the Lady Indians unleashed a variety of offensive weapons in blistering the City View Lady Mustangs 25-12, 20-10, 25-5 to open District 8-3A action Friday. Read more in this week’s edition of The Nocona News.
Read MoreThornberry says over quarter century, it is time to retire
AMARILLO – After a quarter of a century in the U.S. Congress Cong. Mac Thornberry (R-Clarendon) has announced his plans to retire at the end of his current term. “It has been a great honor to serve the people of the 13th District of Texas as their congressman for the last 25 years. They have given…
Read MoreMuseum’s fund raiser Saturday night
Moved from its traditional date of the second weekend in September to October to make way for the Tri-ennial NHS Homecoming, the Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum’s Shebang takes place Saturday night at The Veranda Event Center. The dinner and auction are the primary fund raiser for Nocona’s history museum. Doors will open at 6 p.m.…
Read MoreOpps, juror is a relative, mistrial
MONTAGUE – A mistrial was declared Tuesday when it was learned that one of the jurors selected was related to the defendant. A jury had been selected to determine the guilt or innocence of Johnnie Dempsey Wood of Nocona on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, a case brought…
Read MoreSchool board votes to recapture lost day of instruction
In a quick, one-item meeting Monday the Nocona School Board recaptured the day of instruction Nocona I.S.D. lost on Tuesday, Sept. 24 before of a reported threat to “shoot up the school.” “We had an in-service day set for Oct. 15,” Supt. Dr. David Waters explained, “so the faculty was already going to be in.”…
Read MoreArea survives the darkness
With the strains of “The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia” most likely trapesing through the minds of many, residents in Nocona, Saint Jo, Montague and Ringgold and surrounding areas spent Sunday and Monday getting ready for Texas-New Mexico Power Company to cut the power at 11:30 Monday night in order to make some…
Read MoreCounty gets encouraging words on extending FEMA funding
MONTAGUE – With more than $6.5-million in federal money still lying on the table the Montague County Commissioners Court got the assurances they needed Thursday as they discussed applying for their second 6-month extension from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to fund repairs to roads damaged in the floods of 2015. The county received a…
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