Every single day for the past quarter century, a mother, father, son or daughter has died in a crash in Texas. There are many wonderful things Texas is known for, but the 25-year streak of daily deaths is one thing we need to change – and we can’t do it alone. In the Paris District in 2024, there were 6,216 traffic crashes, resulting in 103 fatalities and 448 serious injuries.

The Bonham Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce the opening of enrollment for the 2026 class of Leadership Fannin, a community-based leadership program designed to improve the understanding of social, economic, and political forces that impact the community at large. The goal of a successful leadership program is to educate participants through monthly sessions and activities that will develop their self-awareness and discover their leadership potential within community organizations, as well as within their workforce.

We welcome back Pierce, a well-seasoned artist, to Harmony House Concerts on Sunday, November 16, 2025, 3:00-5:00 p.m. We welcome each of you to join us on that day for the festivities and to hear this master musical storyteller

Texas Women’s Foundation (TXWF) announces Christine Baranski, an Emmy, two-time Tony, Screen Actors Guild, Drama Desk and American Comedy Award winner, as its featured speaker at its “Ruby Anniversary Luncheon” on Friday, November 14, 2025, (11:30-1:00 p.m.) at the Omni Dallas Hotel (555 S. Lamar St., Dallas, 75202). She is best known for her performances in The Good Wife, The Good Fight, The Big Bang Theory, Mamma Mia, The Gilded Age and multiple theater roles.

It was yet another argumentative and confrontational meeting of Fannin County Commissioners Court, with Fannin County Judge Newt Cunningham attempting to bully all four commissioners and hold the county hostage to prevent Fannin County from drawing down the final $600,000 payment from Texas Historical Commission (THC) to reimburse the county for the restoration of the Fannin County Courthouse. Even though the courthouse has been occupied since April 2022, Cunningham refuses to sign an acknowledgement that the courthouse he has worked in since January 1, 2023, is complete. Meanwhile, residents are advised that the Justice Center won't be ready to occupy until February, at the earliest.

1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989 and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November. He devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server and helped foster the Web's subsequent development. He is the founder and emeritus director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web. He was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.