Dallas-based singer/songwriter Ralyn Gayle will entertain the annual San Jacinto Music Series crowd with a free concert of carefully crafted country pop songs on Friday, May 15. Rockwall Founders Day Festival is slated for May 16.

(L-R) Bonham Municipal Court Judge Michael Evans administers the Oath of Office to Bonham Mayor Allen Sanderson. At Monday night's regular meeting, the City of Bonham welcomed a new mayor and two new city council members and approved several items related to continued city growth.

Imagine a lawman so fearless that outlaws surrendered at the mere sound of his name. Bass Reeves was one of the most legendary figures of the American Old West, yet his story remained largely unknown for generations. Born into slavery in 1838, Reeves rose to become one of the first Black deputy U.S. marshals west of the Mississippi River, capturing thousands of dangerous criminals through courage, intelligence, and unmatched tracking skills. Our speaker for the evening is one of our well-known members, Mark Russell of Sherman, Texas.

Elden “Buddy” Gray Nash Clayton was born in Bonham, TX, to Jessie Mae Nash and George Poe Clayton on September 29, 1926. After graduating from Bonham High School in 1943, Buddy joined the Army Air Forces and served from 1943-1946, becoming a 1st Lt. during WWII. He then attended Texas A&M University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in mathematics before joining the Air Force as an officer and jet pilot from 1950-1956.

The annual Classic Car Show Honoring veterans at the Sam Rayburn Memorial Veterans Center in Bonham is slated for Saturday, May 16, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Free admission - no entry fee.

1942 – World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507. German submarine U-507 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine built for service in the Second World War and the Battle of the Atlantic. She was mainly notable for two patrols she conducted during the "Second Happy Time" in mid-1942, during the first of which she caused havoc in the Gulf of Mexico amongst unprotected American shipping. On 6 May she sank the Alcoa Puritan about 45 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. On the 12 May she sank the 10,731 GRT Virginia in the mouth of the Mississippi, killing 26 sailors in an audacious attack which shocked the American authorities. In the second patrol, she attacked ships along the coast of Brazil, in an inexplicable and shocking attack on a neutral nation's shipping in its own waters which almost single-handedly provoked the Brazilian declaration of war on Germany. The U-boat was built during 1941 by the Deutsche Werft shipyards in Hamburg, and commissioned on 8 October 1941, with Korvettenkapitän Harro Schacht in command. Schacht commanded the boat for its entire lifespan, receiving the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 9 January 1943 in recognition of his successful patrols in the preceding year. He never wore his award however, as he was killed with his entire crew when the boat was sunk four days later.