Downtown Denison's annual free summer concert series, Music on Main, kicks off its 2026 season on Friday, June 12 with an evening of Texas blues featuring Sue Foley. Local favorite Oliver White opens the show at 7:30 p.m.

A recent FCC ruling that counties cannot profit from the phone commission at the jail will knock approximately $550,000 out of the general fund budget revenue. Abatements kick in for Engie and Coniglio, two entities that paid taxes last year. At the same time, county departments have turned in a budget wish list that, if approved, would put the county almost $4 million in the hole, and Fannin County Judge Newt Cunningham seems determined to hire a road engineer and transition from the county's current precinct system to unitization, a concept that would add another high-paying administrative position and likely incur significant costs for the first couple of years.

(L-R) Inga Posey, Sue Smith, Kay Carrel, Barbara Reeves and Sandy Barber. All the stars were out as Bonham celebrated the 25th anniversary of Creative Arts Center.

June is going to be a busy month for the airwaves and the club. The biggest event will be the ARRL Field Day June 27 and 28, 2026. FCARC will set up at the Bois D'Arc Creek Cowboy Church beside their arena and operate for the roughly 24hour event, and we invite you to stop by and see what we do.

1949 – George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in the United States. Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final completed book. Thematically, it centers on totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviors. It popularised "Orwellian" as an adjective, and many terms used in it have entered common usage, including "Big Brother," "doublethink," "Thought Police," "thoughtcrime," and "Newspeak." Nineteen Eighty-Four has been often regarded as a classic and has been acknowledged for its impact on twentieth-century literature. The story takes place in a fictional future. The year is believed to be 1984, but this is uncertain. Much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. The Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance and, through the Ministry of Truth, historical negationism and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking. The novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated.