Annexation would be the cornerstone in a college campus that would be built just over a mile west of Bonham on US 82 on 100 acres donated by Bob (standing) and Kay Carrel expressly for this purpose.
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The Fannin County Master Gardeners’ sixth annual 2010 Garden, Lawn & Home Expo is set for Saturday, March 27 from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Multi Purpose Complex located at 700 FM 87 just west of Bonham, between Hwy 82 and Hwy 56.
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Annie Lee's work has long been a staple in any African American art collection and indeed does grace the collections of Will Smith, Bill Cosby and Eddie Murphy to name but a few of her notable collectors. This world premier of Lee's abstract art is a must see and provides an interesting testament to this phase in Lee's artistic career.
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Want to know about an ocean-going mammal that has recovered from near extinction a hundred years ago? Second Saturday at Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge will feature Elephant Seals on February 13, when Dr. Steve Goldsmith will present the program, beginning at 10 a.m., in the Audio Visual Classroom at the Refuge. On the same date, youngsters aged 6 – 12 are invited to make gourd birdhouses at the Refuge Visitor Center. Sandra Haynes, Grayson County Master Gardener, will lead the activity as part of the new Second Saturday for Youth.
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Fannin County Farm Bureau is sponsoring a public meeting to cover many of the rules and regulations regarding the use of farm trailers and equipment on public roadways. RSVP by Monday, Feb. 15 by calling the Fannin County Farm Bureau office at 903-583-8535.
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1692 – A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials. The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings before local magistrates followed by county court of trials to prosecute people accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex counties of colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. The episode has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of religious extremism, false accusations, lapses in due process, and governmental intrusion on individual liberties. Despite being generally known as the "Salem" witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village, Ipswich, Andover and Salem Town. The best-known trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town. Over 150 people were arrested and imprisoned, with even more accused but not formally pursued by the authorities. At least five more of the accused died in prison. All twenty-six who went to trial before this court were convicted. The four sessions of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1693, held in Salem Village, but also in Ipswich, Boston and Charlestown, produced only three convictions in the thirty-one witchcraft trials it conducted. The two courts convicted twenty-nine people of the capital felony of witchcraft. Nineteen of the accused, fourteen women and five men, were hanged. One man (Giles Corey) who refused to enter a plea was crushed to death under heavy stones in an attempt to force him to do so. The cause of the symptoms of those who claimed affliction continues to be a subject of interest. Various medical and psychological explanations for the observed symptoms have been explored by researchers, including psychological hysteria in response to Indian attacks, convulsive ergotism caused by eating rye bread made from grain infected by the fungus Claviceps purpurea (which is the natural substance from which LSD is derived), an epidemic of bird-borne encephalitis lethargica, and sleep paralysis to explain the nighttime attacks alleged by some of the accusers. Other modern academic historians are less inclined to believe that the cause for the behavior was biological, exploring instead motivations of jealousy, spite and a need for attention to explain behavior they contend was simply acting. Extermination of a Witch by Thompkins H. Matteson
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"I'm humbled by this award," Fannin County Criminal District Attorney Richard Glaser said after being named Citizen of the Year at the Bonham Area Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet and Ball.
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(l-r) Bonham Mayor Roy Floyd, Bonham Industrial Foundation President Carl McEachern, Dr. Roy Renfro and Warren Jamieson.
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My family operated a coin exchange among ourselves---a sort of Currin Family, Ltd. “Don't tell Mama that I ripped my dress; I'll give you a nickel.” “Lemme shoot your bow and arrow just once. I'll give you a nickel.” “Push me around the block in the wheelbarrow. I'll give you a nickel.” “I'll braid your hair if you'll give me a nickel.” The nickel circulated through the family, buying and selling services and favors, until my brother Tim, even then more of a sporting person than my sister Kathy and me, walked out of the House of Currin, spent the nickel and bankrupted a thriving family business.


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Legislators rely on public input when crafting legislation, and it is important that they hear from people during the interim. This week I will review the charges for the Committee on Elections, which has jurisdiction on matters pertaining to: the right of suffrage in Texas; primary, special, and general elections; revision, modification, amendment, or change of the Election Code; the secretary of state in relation to elections; campaign finance; and the duties and conduct of candidates for public office and of persons with an interest in influencing public policy.
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Remember the wonderful lobster class I was fortunate enough to get to take at the end of 2009 at the Dallas Central Market Cooking School? The class of 18 students taught by four chefs and helped by three volunteer assistants prepared four luscious lobster dishes. One dish we prepared was named Lobster Savannah.
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1990 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power. The Soviet Union's collapse into independent nations began early in 1985. After years of Soviet military buildup at the expense of domestic development, economic growth was at a standstill. Failed attempts at reform, a stagnant economy, and war in Afghanistan led to a general feeling of discontent, especially in the Baltic republics and Eastern Europe. Greater political and social freedoms, instituted by the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, created an atmosphere of open criticism of the Moscow regime. The dramatic drop of the price of oil in 1985 and 1986, and consequent lack of foreign exchange reserves in following years to purchase grain profoundly influenced actions of the Soviet leadership. Several Soviet Socialist Republics began resisting central control, and increasing democratization led to a weakening of the central government. The USSR's trade gap progressively emptied the coffers of the union, leading to eventual bankruptcy. The Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991 when Boris Yeltsin seized power in the aftermath of a failed coup that had attempted to topple reform-minded Gorbachev.
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