Project Celebration is a partnership between educators, parents, and community leaders to reduce impaired driving crashes by providing safe, chemical-free environments for students. Schools hosting an overnight lock-in can receive reimbursable mini-grants ranging from $1,000 to $2,500 to cover expenses such as supplies, printing, and room rental. The higher levels of funding are available for schools that include approved DWI safety activities like guest speakers or PSA contests.

John Tynan of Ivanhoe, Texas has decided to serve his friends and neighbors as the next Fannin County Judge. Our freedom allows every citizen the opportunity to serve in the government of the people for the people at many different levels. I have chosen the office of Fannin County Judge for many reasons, most of which is I desire to do the duties of a public servant. I have no agenda in this endeavor, no one pulling my strings or placing me there to serve an unknown agenda.

AJ Edwards

Bonham School Board voted to extend the superintendent contract. AJ Edwards was honored at the school board meeting for excelling at the state fair.

In a special presentation, Bonham Mayor John Burnett (left) became the latest person to receive a custom writing pen fashioned out of local bois d'arc wood, courtesy of local bois d'arc craftsman David Keene. Burnett was sworn in as mayor on December 8, 2025, after former mayor H. Compton resigned in order to enter the race for Fannin County judge.

Due to dangerous conditions that could lead to fast-moving grassfires, Fannin County has extended a countywide ban on all outdoor burning.

1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history. Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite is a concert starring American singer Elvis Presley that took place at the Honolulu International Center and was broadcast live via satellite to audiences in Asia and Oceania on January 14, 1973. The show was presented with a delay in Europe. In the United States, to avoid a programming conflict with Super Bowl VII and Elvis on Tour which was playing in cinemas at the time, NBC opted to air a ninety-minute television special of the concert on April 4. Presley returned to performing tours throughout the United States in 1970. Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China inspired Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, to promote a live broadcast concert featuring Presley and he arranged a deal with RCA Records and the NBC network to produce one. The show benefited the Kui Lee Cancer Fund. Marty Pasetta produced and directed the program. A filmed rehearsal concert took place on January 12. The show earned good ratings in the countries targeted by the live broadcast. The television special presented in the United States became NBC's highest-rated program of the year, and it received a favorable reception from critics. Its soundtrack album became Presley's last chart-topper on Billboard's album chart.