Austin Blues Festival is slated for April 27-27 at Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park in Austin, Texas, featuring -- just to name a few -- Buddy Guy, Brittany Howard, Jimmie Vaughan, Blind Boys of Alabama, and special guest Sue Foley.

As the calendar ushers in another Earth Day, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO) continues to lead the way for southeast Oklahoma in recycling efforts. Monday, April 22 marks Earth Day 2024. CNO Recycling Services operate year around.

The Board of Directors of the Northeast Texas Children’s Museum is pleased to announce the eighth annual Silent Auction & Market, to be held Monday, April 29, 2024 in the Sam Rayburn Student Center on the campus of Texas A&M University-Commerce. The bidding will begin at 5:30 p.m. and close at 7:30 p.m.

Opting to enjoy a field trip at one of Fannin County's historical treasures, rather than conducting a business meeting, the Fannin County Retired Teachers and School Personnel Association spent a thoroughly delightful hour thanks to our hostess, Margo McCullough. She and her staff welcomed us, and made our visit fun and informative.

The 16th annual Texoma Earth Day Festival that was scheduled for April 20, 2024, had been cancelled due to the forecast for rain all day Saturday.

2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months. On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire occurred on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field about 40 miles southeast off the Louisiana coast. The explosion and subsequent fire resulted in the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and the deaths of 11 workers; 17 others were injured. The same blowout that caused the explosion also caused an oil well fire and a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the world, and the largest environmental disaster in United States history.