Join us on Saturday, September 27 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for Farming Heritage Day at the Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site! We celebrate Sam Rayburn’s love of farming by inviting antique tractor clubs, local farmers and ranchers, and more to our site so they can share the joys of farming with you all. This event is free to attend. Tours of the Sam Rayburn House will cost regular admission prices and occur on the hour.

The festival season is fast approaching in North Texas and leading off is Sherman’s 44th Annual Arts Fest on Saturday, September 20, 2025. This is the best of family-friendly entertainment, so come enjoy live music, photography, visual and performing arts, and amazing artisan vendors offering unique, handmade items available for purchase just in time for the Christmas season. Don't miss the Sherman Art League Art Show and the Sherman Parks & Rec's Youth Art Show in the Municipal Ballroom! And bring your appetitive because this festival attracts a variety of delicious food vendors.

Make plans to join us in the Garden on Thursday, Sept 18 from 6:00-9:00 p.m. Credit Union of Texas will be providing free burgers and hot dogs. Buy a glass of wine from Neighbors Place Winery. Visit with local non-profits that are participating in North Texas Giving Day and making an impact locally. The Buzz Andrew Band will start playing at 7:00 p.m. Our center will also be kicking off our yearlong 25th anniversary celebration!

Addison Oktoberfest, presented by Paulaner, puts a purely Texan twist on a traditional Oktoberfest celebration and will bring approximately 50,000 fans together in Addison Circle Park from Sept. 18 - 21 to revel in German culture, food, music and bier.

Tuesday's 86-minute regular meeting of Fannin County Commissioners Court was brisk and focused on business, with the court taking the advice of counsel and passing on agenda items relating to the battery-energy storage facility near Savoy now that Platinum BESS has filed lawsuits against the county, the individual members of commissioners court, and Fannin County Fire Marshal, Troy Hudson. In addition, the court voted to begin meeting bi-weekly in October.

1977 – Voyager 1 takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together. Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. The probe made flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's largest moon, Titan. NASA had a choice of either conducting a Pluto or Titan flyby. Exploration of Titan took priority because it was known to have a substantial atmosphere. Voyager 1 studied the weather, magnetic fields, and rings of the two gas giants and was the first probe to provide detailed images of their moons. As part of the Voyager program and like its sister craft Voyager 2, the spacecraft's extended mission is to locate and study the regions and boundaries of the outer heliosphere and to begin exploring the interstellar medium. It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. In 2017, the Voyager team successfully fired the spacecraft's trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) thrusters for the first time since 1980, enabling the mission to be extended by two to three years. As of September 2025, NASA's Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth, making it the most distant human-made object. Because of this vast distance, a radio signal takes over 23 hours to travel from Earth to the spacecraft and another 23 hours to return, a total round-trip time of more than 46 hours. Voyager 1's extended mission is expected to continue to return scientific data until at least 2025, with a maximum lifespan of until 2030. Its radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) may supply enough electric power to return engineering data until 2036. Voyager 1 is projected to reach a distance of one light day from Earth in November of 2026 and is expected to reach the theorized Oort cloud in about 300 years and take about 30,000 years to pass through it.