Bonham News

Thinking about fresh spinach from a winter garden, but crowded for space at home? Bonham Community Garden has a plot just for you.

Tours gathered Saturday at the Sam Rayburn House Museum for a special viewing of a historical quilt.

Quilters and quilt lovers have their plans all sewn up for this weekend because the 2014 Bonham Quilt Hop began Friday, July 25 and continues Saturday, July 26. The event kicked off Friday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. with quilt displays at eight locations around Bonham, showcasing historic, antique, and contemporary quilts, including quilts from the ... (more)

Of the 10 cities in Fannin County, only 3 have police departments with a chief, while 2 cities have suspended their police departments since April.

The 6th Annual Kids Entertaining Kids Fundraiser will be held Saturday, August 9, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. at the Sherman Municipal Ballroom, 405 North Rusk.

Friends of Willow Wild and Bonham Purple Warriors young and older! Now that the Willow Wild Cemetery Association has been in possession of the cemetery for a while, our budget needs are coming into clearer focus.

Every quilt tells a story. Whether it is a baby quilt lovingly made by an expectant mother in the 1930s, a quilt pieced and embroidered by friends in the 1990s, a quilt sewn by a grandmother for her granddaughter's wedding in the 1960s or quilts purchased at antique quilt shows throughout the country to furnish the houses of a family ranch ... (more)

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)