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MONTAGUE – Prior to the development of the 9-1-1 emergency phone network, and in the absence of any city or county guidelines on naming streets and roads, developers could assign whatever name they wished to a proposed road. As a result, there are oftentimes more than one “Oak,” “Elm” “First” streets, roads or lanes in…

MONTAGUE – The Montague County Grand Jury indicted two Nocona residents Monday, one of whom is already in federal custody on drug charges, for hindering the apprehension of Jessica Ann Bishop, then 33, on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity-forgery. All totaled the grand jury returned 37 indictments against 24 defendants Monday. A second…

When Halloween rolls around this year, for the children’s safety the streets into two neighborhoods in Nocona will be closed to vehicular traffic. Last Tuesday night the Nocona City Council approved a request to close Carolyn Road and Oaklawn Drive in southwest Nocona, and Hillcrest Drive in southeast Nocona, that evening. “We’re wanting it blocked…

FORESTBURG — The Montague County Historic Cemetery Preservation Board will host an all you can eat fish fry, with all the trimmings, Saturday, Oct. 19. The event will be held in the Forestburg Community Center in Forestburg. Serving time has changed. Serving will begin at 4 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. Fish will be fried…

Nocona High School’s Easton Womack captured second place at the State Fair of Texas in Individual Youth Agricultural Mechanics Premier Exhibitor Sweepstakes winning a $2,000 cash award and a banner. Easton is the son of John and Stepheny Womack.

Members of the Nocona City Council were given complimentary, one-year memberships last Tuesday in the Nocona Friends of the Library as part of National Friends of the Library Month. Hobie Meekins, president of the Friends as well as a member of the Nocona Public Library Advisory Board, along with fellow Friends and Board Member Marsha…

MONTAGUE – The Montague County Sheriff’s Office benefited from some unanticipated revenues Monday, and some praise from a landowner. Meanwhile the department is finally up to full staff, reported Sheriff Marshall Thomas. Read more in this week’s edition of The Nocona News.

Randy Oberbeck’s airbrush artistry won “Best of Show” at the inaugural CTAA Art of the Song Art Show held Friday and Saturday at the H.J. Justin Community Room in Nocona and part of the Art of the Song music festival and art show co-hosted by the Chisholm Trail Art Association and Nocona Nights. Oberbeck’s entry…

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Now you have your chance to “stick it to the man,” in this case notorious tight-wad Robert Fenoglio. At the conclusion of Saturday night’s Shebang dinner and auction for the Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum Robert Fenoglio issued a challenge to benefit the museum. “I’ll give a thousand dollars to the museum if ten others will…