The Fannin County Children's Center is seeking dedicated individuals to serve as Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) volunteers. As a CASA, you will be appointed by the 336th District Court to advocate for the best interests of children in foster care. Fannin County Children's Center is in need of new Court Appointed Special Advocates because the Children's Center has new cases with no CASAs.

Visit McKinney invites music lovers and families across North Texas to experience the sight and sound of Drum Corps International (DCI) as nine elite drum and bugle corps take the field at McKinney ISD Stadium on Monday, July 20, 2026, for DCI McKinney.

On July 23 at 7 p.m. in the Audie Murphy Museum, Greenville, Texas, Dr. John C. McManus, professor of history at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, will lecture on the invasion as seen from the eyes of the 1st Infantry. They helped clear the path for the thousands of soldiers riding the waves out in the Channel awaiting their turn to land. Admission is free and the public is invited to relive this action-packed story of how one division broke through the enemy lines and began the march to end the terrible war.

The US 82 mainlane and frontage road closures permits the placement of US 75 bridge deck paving over US 82. TxDOT officials have announced upcoming nightly full closures of the eastbound and westbound US 82 mainlanes, the eastbound and westbound US 82 frontage roads beginning at 7:00 p.m., and the northbound mainlanes beginning at 8:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. on July 13 until July 14.

The Grayson County Historical Society is honored to have Heather Boykin as our guest speaker on Tuesday, July 14. The topic we have asked Heather to present is some of the life stories of Sophia Porter, a North Texas pioneer known for her resilience and four marriages who was known as Paul Revere of the Confederacy. Sophia was born in 1815 and died in 1897.

1863 – American Civil War: The New York City draft riots begin three days of rioting which will later be regarded as the worst in United States history. The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. The protests turned into a race riot against African Americans by Irish American rioters. President Abraham Lincoln diverted several regiments of militia and volunteer troops after the Battle of Gettysburg to control the city. The official death toll was listed at either 119 or 120. One historian estimated a loss in killed and wounded of 1000, most of whom were of the mob, and a probable damage to private property of $1,500,000 (equivalent to $39,200,000 in 2025). According to another historian, 18 people are known to have been killed by the rioters, 11 of whom were Black. According to Toby Joyce, the riot represented a "civil war" within the city's Irish community, in that "mostly Irish American rioters confronted police, [while] soldiers, and pro-war politicians ... were also to a considerable extent from the local Irish immigrant community." The military did not reach the city until the second day of rioting, by which time the mobs had ransacked or destroyed numerous public buildings, two Protestant churches, the homes of various abolitionists or sympathizers, many black homes, and the Colored Orphan Asylum at 44th Street and Fifth Avenue, which was burned to the ground. The area's demographics changed as a result of the riot. Many black residents left Manhattan permanently with many moving to Brooklyn. By 1865, the black population had fallen below 11,000 for the first time since 1820.