Drivers across North Texas are asked to leave home a few minutes early if possible this week to compensate for busy streets, observe and comply with all school zone signs and keep an eye out for young pedestrians as another year of school gets underway. Remember that using a cell phone while driving through a school zone is illegal.

Bonham City Council tabled a proposed ordinance that would impact rental housing in the city after hearing from many local landlords and even a few tenants.

At first glance, Melanie Hardy may seem like the quintessential Fannin County girl -- she comes from a military family, loves horses, hiking, fishing, gardening and enjoys quiet mornings with her husband, Brian Hardy, in the peaceful, rural life that comes with living in Ivanhoe, Texas. Surprisingly, though, she is originally from Rhode Island and spent many of her formative years in Florida fishing the flats and deep sea fishing with her father. These days you can find Melanie working alongside Dr. Jim Froelich as a certified Family Nurse Practitioner at Family Care Clinic in Bonham.

Walter Edward Potts was born January 9, 1892 in Denison, Texas, the son of William and Mollie Oliphant Potts. William grew up in Pottsboro and Denison and Mollie was from Ravenna, the daughter of Fountain and Patsy Oliphant. At the age of twenty-five, Walter was drafted into the U.S. Army and served as one of the Buffalo Soldiers during World War One.

Kaleidoscope Park in Frisco invites the community to celebrate the traditions, culture, and contributions of Hispanic communities during the Hispanic Heritage Festival on Saturday, September 5, from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Kaleidoscope Park in Frisco. Presented by Todos Unidos Creado por CUTX and sponsored by Ruiz Foods, this free festival offers an afternoon and evening filled with live performances, cultural experiences, food, games, and family-friendly activities.

1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi. Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian and American actress and inventor. Regarded as a successful film star, she also co-invented a radio guidance system during World War II. Lamarr became a film star with her performance in the romantic drama Algiers (1938). She achieved further success with the Western Boom Town (1940) and the drama White Cargo (1942). Lamarr's most successful film was the religious epic Samson and Delilah (1949). She also acted on television before the release of her final film in 1958. She was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Lamarr had no formal training and was primarily self-taught, she invested her spare time, including on set between takes, in designing and drafting inventions, which included an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a flavored carbonated drink. At the beginning of World War II, along with composer George Antheil, Lamarr co-invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of radio jamming by the Axis powers. This approach, conceptualized as a "Secret Communication System", was intended to provide secure, jam-resistant communication for weapon guidance by spreading the signal across multiple frequencies. Similar technology was used in operational systems only beginning in 1962, which was well after World War II and three years after the expiry of the Lamarr–Antheil patent. Frequency hopping, which existed and was utilized before the Lamarr–Antheil patent, is a foundational technology for spread spectrum communications. Its principles are utilized for secure wireless networking, including Bluetooth and early versions of Wi-Fi, which use variants of spread spectrum to protect data from interception and interference.