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  • On June 21, three of country music’s most recognizable names will take the stage at Lucas Oil Live for a night of unforgettable performances. Don’t miss your chance to see Tracy Lawrence, Neal McCoy and Tracy Byrd live at WinStar.
  • Buzz Andrews has been pickin' for 59 years now and thinks he can go 20 more. You can catch his shows in the North Dallas area almost any night of the week. His experiences include: Classic Rock, Blues, and Country. His guitar work with "Little Red", his ol' 1963 Gibson guitar, is unique and his harmonica is tasteful as a cool drink of water.
  • TCOG will be hosting an "Appointment Only" Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event on location at our main offices in Sherman on Saturday, April 27, 2024 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The event is open to all residents of Cooke, Fannin and Grayson counties.
  • As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) WaterSense® program’s annual Fix a Leak Week from March 18 - 24, Americans are encouraged to help put a stop to the nearly 1 trillion gallons of water wasted from household leaks each year. "Leaks can account for nearly 10,000 gallons of water lost in an average home every year—the amount of water it takes to wash 300 loads of laundry," said Larry N. Patterson, Executive Director of Upper Trinity.
  • Press your kilts, buckle up your sporrans and join us at the 8th annual Sherman Celtic Festival & Highland Games slated for March 23-24, 2024 at Pecan Grove Park West in Sherman! Experience the best of Celtic culture - including live music, Scottish dancing, Irish wolfhounds, a Viking village with battles, sheep herding, Highland cows, Celtic food, and tons of vendors! This is a family-friendly event and will be the best one yet! (photos by Allen Rich of last year's event)
  • 1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River. He is best known for an early 1682 expedition in which he canoed the lower Mississippi River from the mouth of the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico; there, on 9 April 1682, he claimed the Mississippi River basin for France. On July 24, 1684, he departed France and returned to America with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River. They had four ships and 300 colonists. The expedition was plagued by pirates, Natives defending their land, and poor navigation. One ship was lost to pirates in the West Indies, a second sank in the inlets of Matagorda Bay. The La Belle made landfall in Feb. 1685. They founded a settlement, near the bay which they called the Bay of Saint Louis, on Garcitas Creek in the vicinity of present-day Victoria, Texas. La Salle led a group eastward on foot on three occasions to try to locate the mouth of the Mississippi. In the meantime, the flagship La Belle, the only remaining ship, ran aground and sank into the mud, stranding the colony on the Texas coast. Some of his men mutinied, near the site of present-day Navasota, Texas. On March 19, 1687, La Salle was slain by Pierre Duhaut during an ambush while talking to Duhaut's decoy, Jean L'Archevêque. They were "six leagues" from the westernmost village of the Hasinai (Tejas) Indians. One source states that Duhaut was a "disenchanted follower." Duhaut was shot and killed by James Hiems to avenge La Salle. Over the following week, others were killed; confusion followed as to who killed whom. The colony lasted only until 1688, when Karankawa-speaking Natives killed the 20 remaining adults and took five children as captives.