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By Kenny Mitchell West Bowie Post High school coaches have the opportunity to dramatically impact the lives of young people, and that is definitely the case for Coach Jack Bowles. After a career that spanned decades and saw his teams win a monumental 650 plus games, Coach Jack Bowles officially announced his retirement from coaching and teaching last week. Bowles leaves a legacy of winning in Northeast Texas which includes 10 successful years at Avery, and most recently, a ve

By: Rylee Freeman Residents of DeKalb no longer have to travel outside the area for custom signage, window tinting, invitations and other graphic design services with the opening of Tank Graphics' new location in town. Tank Graphics originated around a year ago, but owner Victoria Foil has long held a vision for what the business would become. After working for her mom’s sign company since the age of 14, Foil brings a wealth of knowledge, experience an

Life can sometimes deal us the most unimaginable circumstances. The kind of things that many in the world could never imagine anything good coming from it. One such day occurred on the night of June 11, 2010 when a peaceful, lazy river at Albert Pike in Arkansas went from its usual three feet deep to a destructive 23 feet in a very short time and claimed the lives of 20 people camped alongside its banks. Three of those lost were Lynn, Wilene and little Nick Shumake from DeKal

By Kenny Mitchell kenny@westbowiepost.com At his month’s regular meeting the DeKalb City Council approved a measure that will impact many residents within the city limits when they unanimously passed a new ordinance that freezes ad valorem taxes for residents 65 years of age and older. The ordinance reads: Whereas, the City Council of the City of DeKalb finds that residents who are sixty five (65) years of age and older own residential homesteads in the City of DeKalb, Texas,

By Kenny Mitchell kenny@westbowiepost.com New Boston Property Management and their Executive Director Cal Davis announced last week that they have purchased the former Inspire Nursing Home located at 210 Rice Street in New Boston and have begun the process of turning the blight on the City of New Boston into the new home for the latest effort to enrich the city and create new housing for an ever growing population. The abandoned facility and property were purchased by New B