DM Services, a local subcontractor based in Telephone, Texas, has been working behind the scenes to set the stage for many parts of the Lake Ralph Hall project. Since the company's founding in 2016, DM Services has provided various excavation, aggregate and grading services, typically for environmental restoration projects. "We got involved early on through clearing work and have continued to support the project by helping with the access road to the pump station and other vital tasks," explained Manager of Business Development Drew Davis.

Fannin County Commissioners court approved a proclamation declaring September 2024 to be Suicide Prevention Month in Fannin County. Bill Wilson of Fannin Behavioral Health Leadership Team pointed out this is an important topic that impacts a lot of families. Fannin County has a higher suicide rate than the rest of the state and country. (L-R) A.J. Self, Pct. 2 Commissioner; Dale McQueen, Pct 1 Commissioner; Bill Wilson, Fannin Behavioral Health Leadership Team; Newt Cunningham, Fannin County Judge; Stephanie Chandler, Fannin Behavioral Health Leadership Team; Jerry Magness, Pct. 3 Commissioner; Doug Kopf, Pct. 4 Commissioner - photo by Lisa Loiselle

You are invited to join us on Sunday, September 15, '24, 3:00-5:00 p.m., to chill out on the remarkable tunes of this 'bluesy' guy from Durham, NC. In 2019, Jon Shain won the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN, in the solo/duo category. Harmony House Concerts meets in our reclaimed vintage home -- located in a natural setting with lots of ambiance on Wildscape Acres -- about 10 miles north of Bonham. All concerts are casual, and guests are friendly.

Grapevine is proud to announce the 38th Annual GrapeFest - A Texas Wine Experience presented by Bank of the West will be all about the Global Wines and Lone Star Vibes. The Largest Wine Festival in the Southwest is happening September 12, 13, 14 and 15. Wine lovers are invited to embark on a journey around the world, all on Grapevine's Historic Main Street.

(L-R) Ronny Hill, Superintendent of Parks and Recreation; Stella Stewart, Employee of the Quarter; Bonham Mayor H.L. Compton. Four times each year, Bonham City Council pauses to recognize an outstanding employee and Monday night, September 9, 2024, Stella Stewart was honored as the City of Bonham Employee of the Quarter. City council also approved an ordinance setting the 2024 tax rate of $0.55 per $100 of evaluated property for the tax year beginning January 1, 2024; last year, the ad valorem tax rate was $0.56.

2001 – The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. On that morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the East Coast to California. The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and aimed the next two flights toward targets in or near Washington, D.C., in an attack on the nation's capital. The third team succeeded in striking the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense in Arlington County, Virginia, while the fourth plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania during a passenger revolt. The September 11 attacks killed 2,977 people, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in history. In response to the attacks, the United States waged the multi-decade global war on terror to eliminate hostile groups deemed terrorist organizations, as well as the foreign governments purported to support them, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and several other countries. The Central Intelligence Agency informed President George W. Bush that its Counterterrorism Center had identified the attacks as having been the work of Al-Qaeda under Osama bin Laden. The United States formally responded by launching the war on terror and invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, which rejected the conditions of U.S. terms to expel Al-Qaeda from Afghanistan and extradite its leaders. The U.S.'s invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty—its only usage to date—called upon allies to fight Al-Qaeda. As U.S. and NATO invasion forces swept through Afghanistan, bin Laden eluded them by disappearing into the White Mountains. He denied any involvement until 2004, when excerpts of a taped statement in which he accepted responsibility for the attacks were released. Al-Qaeda's cited motivations included U.S. support of Israel, the presence of U.S. military bases in Saudi Arabia and sanctions against Iraq. The nearly decade-long manhunt for bin Laden concluded on May 2, 2011, when he was killed during a U.S. military raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.