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Video churches Many of Nocona’s churches, in an “out of love” are switching to video-only church services beginning this Sunday. Central Christian Church, First United Methodist Church and First Baptist Church are among those who will be live-streaming their Sunday worship services through their respective Facebook pages or other media avenues. Read more in this…

By Tracy R. Mesler After 18 years of waiting, the Nocona City Council reached the end of its patience last Tuesday. Sitting as the City Building Commission, it gave Melvin and Minnie Corley 120 days to demolish a house and garage at 912 Grayson Street. All totaled the council discussed three properties Tuesday night, ordering…

School open or closed While the county’s seven school superintendents met again Tuesday to discuss whether to reopen after Spring Break ends this week or extend the break. “We are participating in daily updates with the Texas Commissioner of Education to get the latest information and guidance,” commented NISD Supt. Dr. David Waters. “We will…

By Tracy R. Mesler In less than a week the Novel Coronavirus has already had a dramatic impact on Nocona, Montague County, the state of Texas, and the world. Already two Covid-19 tests have originated from Nocona as Nocona General Hospital used 2 of the 12 tests, they were initially allocated by the State Health…

  By Tracy R. Mesler A critical component to the nation’s, and this community’s ability to survive the Coronavirus of 2020 is the number of ventilators available to help keep patients alive as their lungs fill with fluids as their immune system attempts to fight off the virus, Nocona General Hospital has two ventilators. Its…

By Tracy R. Mesler © 2020 The Nocona News Lab tests were negative for Coronavirus for the first patient to presented themselves to Nocona General Hospital for testing. Meanwhile, as Nocona schools released an hour early Friday for spring break, school officials and parents will anxiously await the results of a second test – one…

By Tracy R. Mesler © 2020 The Nocona News Nocona General Hospital tested its first potential Covid-19 patient Thursday and should have results back by late Friday afternoon. In the meantime, the patient is under self-quarantine as per federal guidelines. NGH CEO Lance Meekins said his staff had been working on implementing protocols as recommended…

AUSTIN – The Audio/Visual & Technology students at Nocona High School continued their tradition of being among the best in Texas Tuesday as the campus’ two entries in the State Young Filmmakers Awards placed first and third in their respective categories. In this the seventh year of the University Interscholastic League competition NHS this was…