Bowie News

Ramon Guillen, nephew of Medal of Honor recipient Ambrosio Guillen, was presented with his uncle's Bowie High School diploma during at a ceremony at Guillen Middle School Thursday.

Residents near Amon G. Carter Lake in Montague County are picking up the pieces after an EF-1 tornado destroyed one home and damaged four others.

On Thursday, many construction workers and community members were in Bowie to help clean up some of the areas hit hardest by the storm.

Thunderstorms turned severe southeast of Wichita Falls on Wednesday night, causing damage in the Bowie area and near the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Mr. David Hughes, 69, passed Thursday, May 9, 2013 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Memorial Services will be at 3 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013 in the Volunteer Wing of Hospice of Wichita Falls with Harvey McMurtry officiating.

Travis Lekas, 17, is charged with trafficking of a person younger than 18, compelling prostitution and sexual performance by a child.

Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Elmwood Cemetery in Bowie with Larry Cox officiating.

The city is proposing to eliminate its 300-foot buffer zone between schools and businesses that sell alcohol in areas that have mixed-use zoning, which would affect a dozen public, charter and private schools around downtown, on the near south side and along Camp Bowie Boulevard.

With the image of their alma mater taking a beating from the El Paso Independent School District cheating scandal, Bowie High School alumni aren't waiting for direction from the district's new board of managers to raise their campus' profile.

Cartmel has lived on Mill Street, cultivating her plants, since 2002. Thelma Cartmel has the welcome mat out year-round, but in her case, it is a beautiful flower garden that beckons with brilliant colors and petals reaching skyward.

Some El Paso legislators said they believe the recently ousted El Paso school board might have used taxpayer money to lobby against state reforms even after its removal became official Tuesday.

Michelle Johnson, who has been painting faces for more than 20 years, paints a design on kindergartener Erin Kilgore, 5, of Hyattsville Friday as part of Career Day at University Park Elementary School.

The Clint Small Middle School Parent-Teacher Association hosted a meeting on Tuesday night, April 30, to offer information on current discussions about transforming the school into an in-district charter school for grades 6 through 12.

Bowie Animal Control Officer Willy Conway confirmed that a skunk that came into a local residence over the weekend tested positive for rabies.

The day after the state announced that the elected El Paso Independent School District trustees were out, school district officials quit talking to them and began working with the new board of managers.

Early voting has begun on Amarillo Independent School District's $99.45 million bond issue, which includes construction projects, security improvements and infrastructure upgrades.

The Montague County sheriffs deputy, who was shot in March during a traffic stop, continues to recover in outpatient rehab.

Two suspects wanted in connection with a theft ring in Bowie were arrested in West Texas and New Mexico on warrants over the past two weeks.

Taking advantage of an unexpected boost in net taxable values, Bowie ISD has moved forward with a major technology expense of nearly $652,000 that will provide iPads to each student in the high school and junior high.

Why should Amarillo voters support the $99.45 million bond election for the Amarillo Independent School District, which will be on the ballot May 11? It has been a decade since the last AISD bond election, and in that time the district has seen enrollment growth of 13.5 percent - to 33,332 students.