With "Hotel California" blaring from a hefty set of speakers and a few surfer decals emblazoned on windows, dozens of Volkswagen vans and Beetles -- with a Thing or two thrown in for good measure -- came rolling into Bonham on Wednesday afternoon for a visit during the group's 2026 Texas European VW Road Trip. photo by Chance Peeler

Let's stand together for child abuse prevention this April! Fannin County Children's Center is excited to announce that this year's shirts are available for order!

The City of Bonham Animal Shelter is thrilled to announce a special adoption event on Thursday, April 30, 2026.

John H. Floyd was born in Tennessee in 1850 and moved to Fannin County with his family in 1859. At the age of 15 he began to work small quarries of stone and “succeeded . . . in developing of the finest industry of the kind in north Texas. . .[H]e has furnished more building material of the kind than any other man in the State. The town of Honey Grove is built up almost exclusively with stone from his quarries. He has furnished material also for public buildings, court houses, jails, etc., for nearly all the county seat towns in north Texas. . . He has shipped extensively to Dallas, the Merchants’ Exchange there being built of material from his quarries.

Bonham Economic Development Corporation (BEDCO) announced that Vector Systems Inc., a global manufacturer of industrial process equipment with nearly $35 million in annual revenue, will relocate its headquarters from McKinney to Bonham, Texas, in Fannin County, a move that will include significant expansion of the company’s operations. Vector Systems is projected to reach $100 million in revenue within three years, with plans to increase its workforce from 129 employees to approximately 230 during this period.

2003 – United States President George W. Bush addresses the nation, announcing the invasion of Iraq. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion began on 20 March 2003 and lasted just over one month, including 26 days of major combat operations. The invasion was conducted by a U.S.-led combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland. According to U.S. president George W. Bush and UK prime minister Tony Blair, the coalition aimed "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction [WMDs], to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people"; however, just before the start of the invasion, a UN inspection team led by Hans Blix found no evidence of the existence of WMDs. According to Blair, the trigger was Iraq's failure to take a "final opportunity" to disarm itself of alleged nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that U.S. and British officials called an immediate and intolerable threat to world peace. The invasion was strongly opposed by some long-standing U.S. allies, including the governments of Canada, France, Germany, and New Zealand. Opponents of the military intervention in Iraq have attacked the decision to invade Iraq along a number of lines, including the human cost of war, calling into question the evidence used to justify the war, arguing for continued diplomacy, challenging the war's legality, suggesting that the U.S. had other more pressing security priorities, (i.e., Afghanistan and North Korea) and predicting that the war would destabilize the Middle East region.