By Heather Russell Publisher hrussell@bowiecountynow. com

To the Editor: Another year, another administration, but apparently the same old same old. We have a new City Administrator, but it may be that we still have the previous one on board! Do you as citizens of New Boston know that another tax increase has been proposed? Probably not since it was at a meeting helf on a Monday at 10:30 am, the newspaper was not in attendance and the meeting to propose said tax increase lasted with the invocation and pledge of allegiance exactly 3 minutes! I know because I was there and not much discussion was had. Why do we need another tax increase? Have we at any point looked at a tightening of our belt to include the fuel we pay for city employees to drive the city vehicles to and from Dalby Springs, to and from Hooks, to and from Simms and every place in between to include grocery stores and church ? How about looking at our staffing in the city? Not to mention services we pay for that we are not getting our money’s worth, i.e., mowing contract for Tapp Park.

New Boston City Administrator Retirement

One of the reasons it’s always a great day to be a Redwater Dragon is because of students like Princeton Love! Princeton is a 7th grader at Redwater Junior High

Not only is Miss New Boston, Olivia Duffer hometown royalty, but also the only person to hold both that title and be named valedictorian of her graduating class at New Boston High School. Duffer, who has been a student at New Boston schools since kindergarten, has a long list of accomplishments over her years of education. She states, “I enjoyed being a varsity cheerleader and was on the varsity tennis team all four years of high school, and I served as student council president, as well as HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) president, class officer, and a member of the National Honor Society. I stayed busy managing my organizations with my school work.”

Pleasant Hills 4-H Club, a newly chartered club in New Boston is hosting their first meeting on October 9th at Pleasant Hills Missionary Baptist Church in New Boston. Club leader, Faith Ellis, said “Youth Motivational Speaker Jiles Clark will speak at the meeting as a way to inspire our kids through hearing his story to do more and be more.” “Jiles is 14 years old and has written three books about motivating youth to not give up and to keep going,” said Ellis. “Clark has become a motivational speaker.”