Does this nice weather have you planning a spring garden? The Fannin County Master Gardeners have an event coming up that you don't want to miss. 2026 Spring Gardening is slated for January 23, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. until noon at the Derrell Hall Education Center, 2505 North Center Street, Bonham TX 75418.

We’re having Sam Rayburn Day at the Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site on January 10, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Celebrate Sam Rayburn’s birthday with crafts, games, and cake! This free program is our first program of the year, and why not start off the 250th anniversary of the United States of America with a party honoring the longest serving Speaker of the House in U.S. history?

Celebrating the holidays can be both fun and safe for your oral health if you think ahead. Dr. Stephen McDonald, clinical associate professor in comprehensive dentistry at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry in Dallas, and Dr. Partha Mukherji, clinical assistant professor in comprehensive dentistry at the dental college, offer tips to keep your mouth healthy.

Eating disorders (EDs) are disturbances in behaviors, thoughts, and feelings toward body weight and shape, and/or food and eating. Although EDs can occur in people of all ages, the most significant increase is seen in teens between the ages of 12 and 15. They can be severe conditions that affect physical, psychological, and social function. Types of EDs include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and restrictive food intake disorder.

The Light Park, North Texas’s most spectacular holiday drive-through experience, is back to light up the season across Arlington, Frisco, and its newest addition — Little Elm. The Light Park will be open nightly through January 4, 2026. A one-of-a-kind celebration of lights, music, and motion, The Light Park transforms each venue into a mile-long wonderland of millions of synchronized LEDs. Guests can tune in on their car radios and drive through an unforgettable symphony of color and sound.

1643 (NS) – birth of Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist. Sir Isaac Newton (4 January [O.S. 25 December] 1643 – 31 March [O.S. 20 March] 1727) was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science. In the Principia, Newton formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific viewpoint for centuries until it was superseded by the theory of relativity. While this is the case, his laws still serve as excellent approximations for the vast majority of physical phenomena involving low speeds (much less than the speed of light) and weak gravitational fields. He used his mathematical description of gravity to derive Kepler's laws of planetary motion, account for tides, the trajectories of comets, the precession of the equinoxes and other phenomena, eradicating doubt about the Solar System's heliocentricity.