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Happy New Year, Howe, Texas!
Thursday, January 1, 2026
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I just want to say thank you to all of you who read the newspaper last year, businesses who supported us, and those of you who encouraged me personally along the way. I’ve noticed a trend this year. I haven’t talked to a single person yet who said they had any New Year’s Resolutions. At first, I thought– how sad, for the general population to have lost hope on such a grand scale that we don’t even get hyped up setting goals for ourselves anymore. But then I got to musing– maybe we aren’t losing hope– maybe instead we are finally losing part of the façade that kept us trapped in the loop of unattained goals. After all, what is the difference in a goal never set and a goal failed, except shame? I don’t know about you– but the same eyes met mine in the mirror today as yesterday, and will tomorrow, God willing. The same you that resisted change yesterday will today, and tomorrow, too. So, maybe this is the year for no grand resolutions demanding your perfection. Maybe this is the year we decide to do our best today– with who we are today, with what we have to work with today. String enough of those days together and before you know it maybe the person in 2026 is better than the one in the mirror right now. I guess only time will tell. Thank you to Monte, for the awesome article highlighting the last year in the City of Howe! The Patriot Pony is currently “under construction”, check us out next week for an update!
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2025 Was the Year the Sewer Debacle Finally Left the Front Page Monte Walker The year 2025 will be remembered as one where we spent an enormous number of resources on our water infrastructure. But the highlight of maybe the past six decades took place on a glorious late April evening where the City of Howe solved our sewer problem that has been addressed on several dozens of front pages of the Howe Enterprise since the 1984 contractual lawsuit that hit Howe citizens directly in the pocketbooks. To the ones that want Howe to remain small – good news – development takes a long time in most cases. To those who want the amenities of a large city – bad news – it takes a long time. But it will happen. We can guide it, or it can guide us. I fight against the latter and thankfully our City Council has the same vision and act as a unified voice for the betterment of Howe, Texas. But highlights of 2025 also include the Noble Ridge development beginning to see homes go through the building and purchasing phase. Interest rates put a beat down on sellers in 2025, but the fast-growing North Texas area withstood much of the “crisis.” It certainly helps to have $40 billion being invested in chip plants 4.8 miles to the north. January is always a breath of fresh air for City Managers or City Administrators, in this case. That’s when the tax dollars begin to roll in and the new budget year in October can start to see some reality. In a chronological recap of 2025, last January the City Council renewed the leases of the police department’s F-150 and the two ambulances. At some point soon, at least one of those ambulances will have to be replaced and that’s a devastating cost but a most necessary investment. Discussions are currently being held as to how we’re going to make that investment in the coming three years or so.
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Local Events
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Opinion/Lifestyle
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Local Church Info
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February’s City Council meeting was postponed to March due to weather and that’s when we did some interior house cleaning by updating the employee handbook and acted on improvements to the Youth Baseball Fields. The City also moved our court location to Summit Gar-
Patriot Pony
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