Bonham News

If you feel like eyes are following you as you walk through Powder Creek Park, maybe you're right; the Mississippi kites are back in town.

Many years ago a talented songwriter named Steve Goodman penned the words that made an Illinois Central train called The City of New Orleans famous.

The 2014 Bonham Quilt Hop begins Friday, July 25 from 1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. and Saturday, July 26, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Quilts will be on display at eight different locations around Bonham.

Delano Smith, Family Self-Sufficiency Coordinator and native Bahamian, will present 'Secrets of The Bahamas'...at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 30, at the monthly Fannin Partners in Education presentation.

The Chamber's mission is to market the Bonham area by providing a base for beginnings, promote tourism, economic development, and commerce.

The Fannin County Children's Center has scheduled two free classes for adults to learn how to recognize and report child abuse.

The Whitewright Area Chamber of Commerce is focused on increasing our members business and improving our entire community.

The Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival resume Thursday July 17th. With the production of the play "Legally Blonde".

Midway mall in sees thousands of customers each year, but, mall managers are trying to entice more.

When you look at the Federal Aviation Administration's website for surface weather observation stations in north Texas, you may notice a gap of weather information for the town of Bonham.

When I was a kid, I remember going to the movie theater in downtown Bonham, Texas and watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind .

Dr. Jerry J. Hopson of Bonham was recently elected by his peers to continue his service as vice president on the 2013-14 Board of Directors of the 8,800-member Texas Dental Association .

In 1969, the United States Air Force closed the book -- Project Blue Book, to be exact -- concerning its study of UFOs, stating that sightings were generated as a result of "a mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various ... (more)

Pete Geren, a former member of Congress from Ft. Worth and former Secretary of the Army has been elected Chairman of the Sam Rayburn Foundation, replacing long-time Chairman, Dee Kelly, a native of Bonham and attorney in Ft.

When I last wrote about the history of Coca-Cola bottling in Bonham, one of the facts I noted was that the move from the second plant, located at 119 West Fifth Street, to the third and last plant, on Highway 78 North, occurred in February 1948.

The Bonham Community Garden in Catron Park at East 2nd Street and Elm will have a work day on July 26, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Work will include building raised garden beds, laying out garden paths, and fixing the community garden sign.

The Honorable Judge Lauri Blake of the 336th District Court recently swore-in six new CASA volunteers to be advocates for children in foster care, including Di Hopkins-Ryan from Ravenna, Robin Loreth from Savoy and Virginia Moore, Donna Thomas, Tiffany Milam and Sophia Dyson from Bonham.

Seven to seventy; men, women, children and furry friends of all ages came out to support the Texoma SPCA on Saturday, June 28 at Granny Lou's Bed & Breakfast.

The Sam Rayburn Museum, a division of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, is gearing up for participation in the 2014 Bonham Quilt Hop.

Manufacturing company Kelso Technologies introduced the public to its new, job-creating addition to its Bonham plant in a ceremony Friday.