The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 2010 Page: 1 of 10
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Children head back
to class Monday as
school begins
... Page 1
Power outage
sends officers to
direct traffic
... Page 9
Indians bull their
way past Chicp
Dragons
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Vol 106, issue 13
AREA WEATHER
Aug 18 96 75
0.13
Aug 19 92 75
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Aug 20 98 77
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Aug 21 99 81
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Aug 22 104 75
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Aug 23 105 78
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Aug 24 105 78
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24 Hour period ending at 7 a.m.
1 Offical recording site at Nocona Hills 1
Tot Rain 2010
23.23
Tot. August
0.32
Thru Jul 2009
28.60
Thru Jul 2008
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26.98
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
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Republicans
select therir
candidate
for fudge
MONTAGUE - It
became official Thursday.
County Judge Tommie
Sappington's name will
appear on the November
General Election ballot as
the Republican Party's nom-
inee for the post.
The Republican Party of
Texas Montague County
Executive Committee had 15
inquiries and conducted 11
interviews of prospective
candidates. The interviews
were held at the Montague
County Courthouse, in the
Commissioners Court Room
on August 17. The delibera-
tions were held on Thursday,
August 19, in the same
venue, the committee said in
a press release.
The committee reached
its final decision and submit-
ted the Certificate of
Replacement Nomination to
the County Clerk, Glenda
Henson, at approximately
3:30 p.m. The Certificate
named the Honorable
Tommie Sappington as the
party's replacement nominee
for the November Election.
Sappington had served as
the Precinct 4 County
Commissioner for 20 years
until resigning earlier this
month to be appointed coun-
ty judge to complete the final
five months of the term of
office stated by the late
County Judge Ted Winn.
Judge Winn committed
suicide July 30 at his home
outside of Bowie.
Sappington will be
opposed in the November
election by former County
Clerk Lynn Gray of
Montague.
Gray served as county
clerk during the 1970s before
resigning to work for banks
over the succeeding 30 years.
While Sappington had
been elected to four full
terms in office, he has not
run for a county-wide office.
A small portion of his
precinct covered the Upper
Montague Road area from
Bowie to Montague.
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First day greetings . . .
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Who's fault
is it, he asks
JP admits blame for cuts
rests in her oj {ice
By Tracy R. Mesler
MONTAGUE - "And
whose fault is it?" County
Judge Tommie Sappington
softly, but firmly asked Pet.
2 Justice of the Peace Karen
Reynolds as she informed
the court that the court clerk
she will lose Sept. 30
because of budgetary cuts
will leave one month before
having her retirement vested.
Monday Judge Reynolds
returned to the court looking
for help — and found instead
a court firm in its stance that
if the magistrate makes deci-
sions that will cost the coun-
ty an estimated $108,000 in
revenues this year, then her
budget will suffer the next
year with the loss of one of
two court clerks.
"The entire office's
(fault)," Judge Reynolds
meekly replied to Judge
Sappington.
As the commissioner's
court worked its way
through the proposed 2010-
11 (FY11) budget in June, it
became apparent that local
revenues were projected to
be down next year because
they had fallen behind pro-
jections this year. And the
biggest decline, by far, was
in JP Precinct 2's revenues.
Judge Reynolds even had
to be summoned back to
Montague one Monday
morning after she left during
the middle of a budget hear-
ing to present her budget and
explain why her revenues
were off. The culprit? A
decision by Judge Reynolds
to stop using the law firm the
county hired to help collect
delinquent court costs and
fees.
Judge Reynolds had
decided, without informing
the court, to stop turning
delinquent accounts over to
the agency. The reason, she
explained, was the computer
software would assess the
full late/penalty/attorney fee
to each individual partial
payment. That, in effect,
double billed the individual.
What left commissioners,
and county finance officials
scratching their heads was
the fact that Judge Rick
Lewis in JP Pet. 1, and his
clerk, using the same soft-
ware, were able to figure out
how to handle partial pay-
ments without doubling the
—See "Oppose" Page 2
oiinty has until 1st
to verify write-in
— Photo by Tracy Mesler
Amanda Cunningham introduces her twin sons to their teacher Monday morning as the
first day of school officially got underway for Nocona I.S.D. and many school districts
in North Texas.
MONTAGUE - One peti-
tion for candidacy as county
judge was turned in to the
County Judge's office
Tuesday.
"It looks okay to me, but
we want to make sure every-
thing is order before
announcing it," said County
judge Tommie Sappington.
"We (the county) have until
September 1 to certify any
write-ins."
Because the petitioner is
registered to vote in another
county, but maintains a resi-
dence in Montague County,
county officials want some
legal guidance as to the eligi-
bility of the candidate.
Write-in candidates had until
the close of business
Tuesday to submit the
— See "Write-in" Page 2
Vote on line, help Montague 0 win computers
MONTAGUE — It's
time for the community to
rally! As you may be aware,
Montague Elementary
School in Montague has
been selected as a Spirit
Awards finalist in
Windstream's Classroom
Connections program.
The Spirit Award is a
$5,000 donation that schools
can use to fund anything
from computers and text
books to band uniforms to
athletic equipment.
Montague Elementary
School is among thirty final-
ists selected from over 120
online video entries, and an
online vote will determine
the top 10 schools to receive
the award.
The deadline for voting
has been extended to
September 7th, and
Montague Elementary
School needs your help to
Wildfire happenings . . .
rally and get more votes!
Please direct your readers to
www.lifetimetour.com/topvi
deos.php so they can view
Montague Elementary
School's video entry and
vote for the school to win.
Every visitor can vote once
per day, so the next two
weeks can make a big differ-
ence in the results. Starting
August 30th, vote tallies will
be visible on the school's
video entry page, so support-
ers can track how their local
school is doing.
wo sessions set
or today discuss
tourism eoneepts
Now that summer is fad-
ing and schedules are getting
back to more routine,
Nocona EDCs would appre-
ciate your participation in an
educational workshop on
tourism opportunities and
trends. Tourism is a primary
economic development tool,
especially for rural commu-
nities and counties like ours.
It allows for new monies to
be spent in the area without
much of the required infra-
structure for business
recruitment.
The intent of the work-
shop is to pass on informa-
tion acquired at recent
tourism programs and begin
dialogues between interested
individuals, local communi-
ties and county officials on
building local tourism.
The workshop is sched-
uled for both 1 p.m. and 5
p.m., Thursday, August 26 at
the Nocona Community
Center. Beverages and
snacks will be provided.
Please pass the word to oth-
ers that you think would be
interested in growing our
tourism capability in the
area.
Please RSVP for the
meeting by Wednesday,
August 25 at 825-3150. We
look forward to your partici-
pation and the benefits an
active tourism effort can
afford our communities and
county.
— Photo by Tracy Mesler
Sue Duckworth and Faye Saxinger visit with a guest Saturday morning at the 2nd Annual Wildfire BBQ Festival held
on the square in Montague, despite the heat a fair number of people visited both the BBQ and the Forestburg
Watermelon Festival held athe same day.
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Mesler, Tracy R. & Mesler, Linda L. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 2010, newspaper, August 26, 2010; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth439459/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.