Grayson County Conservation Team Members Dr. Tamra McGaughy (Grayson 4-H Agent), Sara Sprinkle (Grayson 4-H Program Assistant), Beverly Pritchard (President of the Bluestem Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalists), Rochelle ‘Shelly’ Delozier (formerly of Sherman High School, now Red River Groundwater Conservation District), Dr. Chad Cummings, Grayson Ag and Nat Resources Agent), and Dr. Rick Avery (Director of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service) photo by Michael Miller/Texas A&M AgriLife

God’s children of all ages are invited to Re-Energize 2026 to celebrate the amazing gift of creativity that God has given each of us! The annual Re-Energize event is scheduled for July 23 and July 24 from 5:30–8:00 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Bonham, 818 N. Main Street, Bonham, Texas.

Fannin County Commissioners court unanimously voted to move forward with the Countywide Polling Place Program application through the Secretary of State. Fannin County Clerk Jenny Garner said the county is adequately prepared to implement a program that will allow registered voters to cast a ballot at any voting location in the county. The county currently has seven voting locations.

National Court Reporters Association elects Stacey Potenza from McKinney, Texas. Potenza is a CART and broadcast captioner and a global accessibility man­ager with more than 19 years of experience providing realtime captioning. She holds the nationally recognized professional certification of Certified Realtime Captioner (CRC). Potenza is a past secretary of the Kansas Court Reporters Association.

Every sailor’s story of naval service is unique. For Senior Chief Matthew Payne, this story has ties to Sherman, Texas, where skills and values learned there are foundational to success in the Navy. photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Mitch Meppelink

1967 – death of Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian. Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life." When he died in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."