The Bonham Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce Christmas in July, a special community event happening from 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. on Friday, July 25 at BEDCO Park (122 W. 3rd St – Lollipop Lane). This event will serve as a fundraiser to help us bring even more magic to Bonham’s Christmas season through enhanced decorations and festivities. We’re planning an evening full of waterworks, food trucks, games, and family fun—and we’d love for your business or organization to be part of it!

Resting Goat: MT441 copyright Fondazione Torlonia PH Lorenzo de Masi. The Kimbell Art Museum will present the special exhibition Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection from September 14, 2025, through January 25, 2026, in the Renzo Piano Pavilion. This exhibition brings to North America for the first time a selection of fifty-eight rarely seen masterpieces from the world’s most important private collection of Roman sculpture.

Get ready for a fun-filled summer kickoff! The Fannin County Children's Center is gearing up for the annual Back to School Supply Drive & Resource Fair, benefiting the amazing kids of Fannin County!

The local rally in Sherman is part of Good Trouble Lives On — a nationwide day of peaceful, nonviolent action rooted in the legacy of the civil rights movement and inspired by John Lewis' call to make "good trouble, necessary trouble." Speakers will be Dr. Al Hambrick, President NAACP Grayson Branch, and Dr. Jeannine Hatt, Pediatrician.

The Culex quinquefasciatus, or Southern house mosquito, can transmit West Nile virus. Some simple precautions around the home can reduce the risk of their bite. (Courtney Sacco/Texas A&M AgriLife)

1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch. The siege of Jerusalem marked the successful end of the First Crusade, whose objective was the recovery of the city of Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre from Islamic control. The five-week siege began on 7 June 1099 and was carried out by the Christian forces of Western Europe mobilized by Pope Urban II after the Council of Clermont in 1095. The city had been out of Christian control since the Muslim conquest of the Levant in 637 and had been held for a century first by the Seljuk Turks and later by the Egyptian Fatimids. One of the root causes of the Crusades was the hindering of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land which began in the 4th century. A number of eyewitness accounts of the battle were recorded, including in the anonymous chronicle Gesta Francorum. After Jerusalem was captured on 15 July 1099, thousands of Muslims and Jews were massacred by Crusader soldiers. As the Crusaders secured control over the Temple Mount, revered as the site of the two destroyed Jewish Temples, they also seized Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock and repurposed them as Christian shrines.