Community banks across North Texas are coming together to support the volunteer fire departments serving Palo Pinto and Jack counties as they continue battling the Ross Fire. Volunteer firefighters have spent countless hours protecting lives, homes, ranches, businesses, and entire communities as the fire continues to impact the region. In response, Legend Bank partnered with fellow community banks across the region to establish the Ross Fire VFD Fund, a collaborative effort to provide financial support to the Volunteer Fire Departments serving on the front lines. photo by Justin Burney, Vice President, Possum Kingdom East VFD

The City of Bonham Animal Shelter invites the community to come together for its Tail End of Summer Adoption & Supply Drive on Saturday, August 29, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the City of Bonham Animal Shelter, 500 Industrial Dr., Bonham, Texas 75418.

For more than 40 years, Sheryl Stanley has been a familiar face in banking and a dedicated part of the Leonard and Bonham communities. For the past seven and a half years at First United Bank, she has continued to build meaningful relationships and serve the people who call this community home. Join us Tuesday, September 1, from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. at our Bonham location to celebrate Sheryl and her incredible career. Refreshments will be served.

MillHouse Foundation and Cotton Mill Partners, Ltd. invite art lovers to spend the weekend at Summer ArtFest, a juried indoor art festival held August 29–30, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. both days at the historic McKinney Cotton Mill.

Financial institutions of Dodd City 1873-1941 -- 13th in a series by Andy & Sherri Weeks

1859 – The Carrington event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted. The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking on 1–2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10. It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally and caused sparking and even fires in telegraph stations. Auroras were seen around the world in the northern and southern hemispheres. The aurora borealis over the Rocky Mountains in the United States was so bright that the glow awakened gold miners, who were reported to have begun to prepare breakfast because they thought it was morning. It was also reported that people in the north-eastern United States could read a newspaper by the aurora's light. The geomagnetic storm was most likely the result of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun colliding with Earth's magnetosphere. The geomagnetic storm was associated with a very bright solar flare on 1 September 1859. It was observed and recorded independently by British astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson—the first records of a solar flare. A geomagnetic storm of this magnitude occurring today has the potential to cause widespread electrical disruptions and blackouts, as well as damage to the electrical power grid and satellites.