Fannin County Commissioners Court approved a Proclamation declaring that April 2026 will be recognized as Child Abuse Awareness Month in Fannin County. Stephanie Garcia, Director of Fannin Children’s Center Director, introduced volunteers and staff, and explained the important role of CASA advocates. "Child Abuse Prevention Month is a great time to bring awareness regarding child abuse and how each of us can make a difference in the life of a child and help them be safe," Garcia explained in a prepared statement. photo by Lisa Loiselle

On Saturday, April 11, at the Annual Oakland Cemetery Picnic fundraiser in Dallas, the James Butler Bonham Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas awarded Monica Newbury the 2026 Texas Patriot Award. Monica has worked tirelessly for over a decade to preserve the history in one of the most historic cemeteries in Dallas, Texas.

Bonham Farmers Market is back at Creative Arts Center beginning this Saturday, April 18, and scheduled to run two or three times each month through October! This event is "rain or shine" and the market will move indoors in case of rain.

At the age of 20, in 1935, Wilbur Dean Chambers joined the Army and became a radio operator. Three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, in 1941, Dean volunteered to go with General Joseph W. Stilwell to Southeast Asia. On March 12, 1942 they were ordered to Burma where Japanese military groups had managed to slowly take control. To escape the Japanese, General Joseph W. Stilwell and 112 other people consisting of Stilwell’s army staff, British commandos, mechanics, nurses, civilians, a newspaper reporter, and a Chinese general and his personal bodyguards began walking 250 miles from central Burma to India. This event was later known as the Walkout.

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

1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive. RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, approximately 1,500 died (estimates vary), making the incident one of the deadliest peacetime sinkings of a single ship. Titanic received a series of warnings from other ships of drifting ice in the area of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, but Captain John Edward Smith ignored them. At 11:40 pm (ship's time) on 14 April, lookout Frederick Fleet spotted an iceberg immediately ahead of Titanic and alerted the bridge. First Officer William Murdoch ordered the ship to be steered around the iceberg and the engines to be stopped, but it was too late. The starboard side of Titanic struck the iceberg, creating a series of holes below the waterline. The hull was not punctured, but rather dented such that the steel plates of the hull buckled and separated, allowing water to rush in. Five of the sixteen watertight compartments were heavily breached and a sixth was slightly compromised. It soon became clear that Titanic would sink, as the ship could not remain afloat with more than four compartments flooded. Titanic began sinking bow-first, with water spilling from compartment to compartment over the top of each watertight bulkhead as the ship's angle in the water became steeper. Titanic, operated by White Star Line, carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of emigrants from the British Isles, Scandinavia, and elsewhere in Europe who were seeking a new life in the United States and Canada. The disaster drew public attention, spurred major changes in maritime safety regulations, and inspired a lasting legacy in popular culture.