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By Tracy R. Mesler The Nocona School Board is currently scheduled to hold its March meeting on Monday, March 23. Supt. Dr. David Waters was uncertain Tuesday afternoon if the board would hold its meeting Monday, and if it did it would be a modified agenda. The key items on the agenda including discussion of…

If you can get it in Nocona, please, PLEASE shop locally and help your neighbors keep their doors open. We will need them once this public health emergency has passed. Many of our churches are doing their part switching to electronic worship services beginning this Sunday. The governor has ordered all dining rooms and bars…

Library closing With the vast majority of its day-to-day patrons utilizing the free computer service and not checking out books, City Manager Lynn Henley ordered the library closed for the foreseeable future. “Those keyboards, and mice, are hard to keep clean, the table tops, everywhere these people are touching could be a source,” Henley said…

Nocona Middle School Students Take Pledge to End Abuse Coach Tiffany Clay’s 6th Grade classes are the latest group of students who have participated in Wise Hope Crisis Center’s educational program, “Healthy Relationships,” by signing the I PLEDGE Campaign cards. Thirty-seven students agreed to “…join other students in the effort to stop all forms of…

Hospital access Following guidelines issued by the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, access to Nocona General Hospital has been restricted, announced NGH CEO Lance Meekins. (See NGH’s advertisement on Page 3 of today’s Nocona News.) All visitors to the hospital must enter through the north/ER entrance where they will be screened. The number…

  Nocona General Hospital CEO Lance Meekins informed The Nocona News and Nocona ISD administrators Thursday morning that the second Covid-19 test came back negative. The patient, who had previously been tested as being negative, had recently traveled to Italy to visit her husband who was in the service, leaving that country shortly before it…

While the students and faculty from Nocona I.S.D. were taking at least a week off from school for their previously scheduled Spring Break, for the district’s maintenance staff it was an all-out effort to sanitize the classrooms in an on-going battle with the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) From industrial strength cleaners to power-washing Nocona ISD’s maintenance…

Court dockets MONTAGUE – All District Court jury trials scheduled in Archer, Clay and Montague Counties have been cancelled through April 15, 2020, according to 97th District Judge Jack McGaughey. “These cancellations follow guidelines issued by the Texas Office of Court Administration on March 12 in response to the unstable situation surrounding the spread of…

By Tracy R. Mesler MONTAGUE – In what was described as a “housekeeping” meeting the Montague County Commissioners Court met in special session Tuesday afternoon to deal with a number of issues regarding the Novel Coronavirus and its impact on county operations. The most immediate impact for the public will be restrictions on access to…