The 2026 Texoma Earth Day Festival is just a day away, with a full lineup of educational workshops, live entertainment, recycling stations and family-friendly activities planned for April 18 at the Sherman Municipal Building, 405 N. Rusk St. The event runs 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Crews have reached a major milestone at Lake Ralph Hall: completing placement of more than five million cubic yards of earth to form the dam’s embankment. With this work done, the project is around 85% complete. The full dam remains on track for completion this summer, bringing Lake Ralph Hall one step closer to delivering water for generations.

The next Bonham Big Band Express Concert is slated for Saturday, April 18, 7:00 p.m. in the Activity Center of First Baptist Church, 710 N. Center Street, Bonham. The concert performed by a 20-piece band/vocals in a big-band format features a selection of jazz tunes and styles over the decades beginning in the 1930s.

Bonham Farmers Market is back at Creative Arts Center beginning this Saturday, April 18, and scheduled to run two or three times each month through October! This event is "rain or shine" and the market will move indoors in case of rain.

Jherson Manuel-Ramos, 27, of Bonham, pled guilty to 7 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division (TDCJ) for Online Solicitation of a Minor and Forgery of Government Document. The sentence was part of a plea agreement reached by the Criminal District Attorney’s Office where the Defendant will be convicted as a felon, be required to register as a sex offender for life, and at the completion of his confinement in prison, will be deported from the United States with a lifetime ban. This criminal will never be able to legally enter the country again.

2013 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others. On April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, United States (18 miles north of Waco), while emergency services personnel were responding to a fire there. Fifteen people were killed, over 160 injured, and more than 150 buildings damaged or destroyed. Investigators confirmed that ammonium nitrate was the material that exploded. On May 11, 2016, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives stated that the fire was deliberately set. That finding has been disputed. At the time of the incident, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) last inspected the plant in 1985. According to records obtained by the Associated Press, OSHA cited the plant for improper storage of anhydrous ammonia and fined it $30.