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By Tracy R. Mesler MONTAGUE – After 90 minutes of discussion and debate Friday afternoon, County Judge Rick Lewis broke a 2-2 tie as the court approved new subdivision regulations for the county. For more than six months the court has been examining its existing subdivision rules, which were amended in 2010, and debated various…

The seven public school districts, and their individual campuses, received a report card Thursday from the Texas Education Agency designed by the non-educators in the Texas Legislature to try and inform the public as to how good a job they are doing educating their students. And while the results varied from A’s by the Saint…

MONTAGUE – Just four days after approving a second 5% pay raise for deputy sheriffs and commissioned officers in the Montague County Sheriff’s Department the Montague County Commissioner’s Court found itself taking away that raise because of unintended consequences. In finalizing the proposed 2019-20 budget on Monday, Aug. 12, the court approved a second 5%…

While he still has “a punch list” for the general contractor to address, Nocona General Hospital CEO Lance Meekins was pleased at the final product Thursday as he walked through the recently remodeled entry, administrative offices and patient rooms at the almost 50-year-old facility. “Everything’s done. The only thing’s that not (done) is the administrative…

A fourth physician is joining the medical community with Dr. Kelly Roden joining the Nocona General Hospital Clinic as of Sept. 3. Dr. Roden is a Family Medicine physician with a passion for rural medicine. She received her MD in 2016 from Texas Tech University before completing her residency training in Family Medicine at the…

  Nocona VFD responded to a propane fire at Dollar General store, 529 E. U.S. Hwy. 82, Monday afternoon. The first call to 9-1-1 was received at 5:58 p.m. Read more about this in this week’s edition of The Nocona News

  The Montague County Republican Party is excited to announce the election of a new Chairman.  Lifetime Montague County resident, Michelle Fenoglio-Toerck, was elected chairman by the Executive Committee on Aug. 8. She succeeds Mari-Kathryn Braswell of Forestburg who recently resigned. Read more about this in this week’s edition of the Nocona News.

The Nocona Lady Indians got in more than 2 hours of actually playing time practice against some quality opponents Saturday as they search to fill gaps created by graduation in their regional quarter-finalist roster. The Lady Indians faced off against Boyd, Abilene Wylie and Graham. Read more about the Lady Indians in this week’s edition…

With teacher-in-service beginning this week, the Nocona Indian football practice schedule is adjusting to coordinate. Practices Wednesday through Friday of this week will be from 4-7 p.m. with football pictures at 1:30 in Friday. The Indians will have an inter-squad scrimmage Saturday as the team practices from 10 a.m. to noon. Practices Monday through Wednesday,…

COLEMAN – Jayden Woodyard, from Prairie Valley, Texas recently participated in an extensive, hands-on educational camp on ranching and land stewardship at the Warren Ranch in West Central Texas. Ranch Brigade, a summer camp of Texas Brigades, is now in its seventh year and accepts youth ages 13 to 17 for approximately 25 coveted spots…