On May 18, 2026, our dear friend Rutilo “Shorty” Vega was detained by ICE while working in Bonham, Texas. Rutilo has lived in the United States for more than 30 years and has spent nearly 29 of those years building a life in Bonham, where he is loved by many people in the community. El 18 de mayo de 2026, nuestro querido amigo Rutilo Vega fue detenido por ICE mientras trabajaba en Bonham, Texas. Rutilo ha vivido en los Estados Unidos por más de 30 años y ha pasado casi 29 años construyendo una vida en Bonham junto a su esposa y sus cinco hijos.

Come help us celebrate the 32nd year of our City of Sherman's Hot Summer Nights concert series with us when we welcome alternative rock band, Eve 6, to the Gazebo Stage on Thursday, May 28th, 2026! We have some amazing local talent kicking off the show for us at 7:00 p.m. with Shawn Fussell, and headliner, Eve 6, will take the stage around 7:30 p.m.!

From birth to grave he was a paradox with a pair of six-shooters, this son of a Methodist minister who was born a dozen miles southwest of Bonham in the back room of his father’s church on May 26, 1853, and went to meet his maker after taking a bullet in the back of his head in an El Paso saloon in 1895.

Bonham Farmers Market is back at Creative Arts Center this Saturday, May 30, and the market is scheduled to run two or three times each month through October! This event is "rain or shine" and the market will move indoors in case of rain.

Mark Lavon Helm was born near Marvell, Arkansas on May 26, 1940. He grew up in Turkey Scratch, working on the family’s farm and singing and playing music at home and at church. Helm said he decided to become a musician at the age of six, after seeing bluegrass legend Bill Monroe perform.

2002 – The tugboat Robert Y. Love collides with a support pier of Interstate 40 on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, resulting in 14 deaths and 11 others injured. Joe Dedmon, captain of the towboat Robert Y. Love, was transporting two empty barges on the Arkansas River. While traversing the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir, Dedmon experienced syncope and lost control of the tow. This caused the barges he was towing to collide with a pier of the Interstate 40 bridge crossing the reservoir. A 580-foot section of the bridge collapsed, plunging into the water. It was raining heavily at the time of the collapse, but the rain subsided soon afterward. By the time traffic stopped and drivers became aware of the missing road, eight passenger vehicles and three semi-trucks had fallen into the river or on collapsed bridge pieces. Fourteen people died and eleven others were injured when the cars and tractor-trailers fell from the bridge. Survivors were aided by fishermen who were participating in a bass fishing tournament in the river near the bridge.