GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. (6488) today announced that it will deepen its long-term strategic partnership with Micron Technology, Inc., a global leader in memory and storage solutions, and has reached a mutual intent to cooperate on Long-Term Agreement (LTA) and related collaboration frameworks. The collaboration aims to further enhance the resilience of advanced semiconductor raw silicon wafer supply, support the growing demand for advanced memory driven by AI, high-performance computing, and data center applications, ensure the supply of critical materials required for future-generation memory technologies, and jointly strengthen the U.S. semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem and local critical materials supply capabilities. photo of GlobalWafers facility in Sherman, Texas

The Creative Arts Center is proud to announce that the next Kidz Krew production will be Robin Hood. This local children’s theatre program is performing the play that was written by Lisa Avila and revised and edited by Kelly Bazan. The cast includes: Lainie Dykes as Sheriff of Nottingham, Natalia Broga as Bonnie, Alara Curtiss as Squirrel, William Baxter as Sherrif’s right hand guard, Lily Loveless as Robin Hood, Stella Loveless as Much, Taiyo Antonaros as The Boy/ Announcer / villager, Sawyer Gooch as Friar Tuck, Madilyn Gooch as Lady Marian, Marley Bennet as Will Scarlet and Lillian Mitchell as Iris.

As the county budgeting process nears the home stretch, General Fund reserves are often discussed and it seems like a good time to consider how the reserves have been used in previous years. In five out of the past seven years, Fannin County has used a relatively small amount of reserves it has accumulated in the General Fund in order to balance the General Fund at the end of the fiscal year on September 30.

It's Farmers Market Week at the Art Center! Be sure to stop by this Saturday, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Vendors will be set up INSIDE and OUTSIDE the center. Plus, it's a great time to get your raffle tickets for the patriotic crazy quilt.

The 147th Leonard Picnic got underway Thursday, July 9, 2026, with a performance by Jess Wolverton. This time-honored North Texas tradition runs Thursday-Sunday, July 9-12, featuring a carnival, live music, a 5K, a car show, a golf tournament, a horseshoe tournament, and a parade and fireworks on Saturday, July 11. The Leonard Picnic will wrap up at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, July 12

1925 – Scopes trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act. The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, commonly known as the Scopes trial or Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating the Butler Act, a Tennessee state law which outlawed the teaching of human evolution in public schools. The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he incriminated himself deliberately so the case could have a defendant. Scopes was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, which had offered to defend anyone accused of violating the Butler Act in an effort to challenge the constitutionality of the law. Scopes was found guilty and was fined $100 (equivalent to $1,850 in 2025), but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. William Jennings Bryan, a three-time presidential candidate and former secretary of state, argued for the prosecution, while famed labor and criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow served as the principal defense attorney for Scopes. The trial publicized the fundamentalist–modernist controversy, which set modernists, who believed evolution could be consistent with religion, against fundamentalists, who believed the word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge. The case was thus seen both as a theological contest and as a trial on whether evolution should be taught in schools. The trial became a symbol of the larger social anxieties associated with the cultural changes and modernization that characterized the 1920s in the United States. It also served its purpose of drawing intense national publicity and highlighted the growing influence of mass media, having been covered by news outlets around the country and being the first trial in American history to be nationally broadcast by radio.