Denison was founded in 1872 as the terminus for the Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railroad. The Denison Town Company was quickly organized and was tasked with the layout of streets, blocks, and individual lots of the fledgling town.
Denison will cap off its year of events surrounding the city’s 150th anniversary this weekend when it officially celebrates the city’s birthday. City officials plan to celebrate the special day through multiple events throughout the weekend, starting on Friday and running through Sunday.
Andrew Dominik is not an upbeat filmmaker. His directorial works, up to this point, pretty much laugh at the idea of frivolity. That’s not a bad thing, though. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly, there were deep and specific reasons within those stories to justify their constantly dark tones. With his new film Blonde, Dominik, who is adapting a book of the same name by Joyce Carol Oats, now sets his sights on applying this tone and atmosphere to the life of Norma Jeane/Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas). This performer’s life was so riddled with tragedies that it’s easy to see why the tone of Killing Them Softly would seem like the perfect aesthetic to tell her story. But something got lost in translation here. Dominik’s earlier narrative films dumped a bucket of cold bleak water on less nuanced perceptions of history. By contrast, Blonde doesn’t bring much new to the vast catalog of movies that explore how old-school Hollywood was not kind to women.
The Red River Railroad Museum is helping celebrate the history of Denison and its 150th birthday this weekend. The museum, honoring the history of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad in Denison, will hold its Red River Conductor’s Ball fundraiser Saturday in conjunction with other events commemorating the anniversary of the city’s founding.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade in June, striking down a constitutionally guaranteed right to abortion and directing decisions on abortion to be made by the states, Republican lawmakers hailed that approach. But no one — neither abortion rights supporters nor abortion opponents — expected GOP members of Congress to stop the assault on reproductive rights, no matter what they said.
President Biden finally dared to say it on Sunday, declaring in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that the “pandemic is over.” Various public-health eminences are saying he’s wrong, but his comments recognize the reality of the disease at this stage and the public mood. The trouble is that his Administration still hasn’t lifted its official finding of a COVID public- health emergency.
It’s rare for a climate change measure to win full-throated support from industry groups, environmental activists and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. Ratifying the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol would bolster U.S. manufacturing and show U.S. commitment to climate leadership — a true win-win. Yet even the most innocuous climate proposals tend to die in Congress, as politicians seek opportunities to score points with their base by engaging in climate demagoguery. For once, that might not happen — and on a measure that promises to do a lot of good, as the Senate prepares to vote this week on the Kigali Amendment.
On Tuesday, September 20, 2022, Ronald Lewis Anderson passed away peacefully at home at the age of 90. Ron spent an entire career at Texas Instruments in Dallas, Midland, Abilene, and Sherman, but his greatest passion was his family and serving the community. He also had a love for wood carving, hunting, and fishing. Ron was member of the First Baptist Church of Sherman and was also active in the Lions Club and the Texoma Woodcarvers
Emmett “Dave” Burleson, 85, of Denison, TX, passed away on September 20, 2022. He was born on December 13, 2022.
Betty Musal, life-long Sherman resident, passed away on September 18 in her home at the age of 85. Funeral Services will be held at Waldo Funeral Chapel on Tuesday, September 27th beginning at 10:00 a.m. Retired Bishop Bob Harris of Salt Lake City, Utah will officiate. Pallbearers will be Rick Musal, Mike Musal, Rich Messenger, Paul Lopez, Zachary Hinton, MacCaulay Goodman, Cory Goodman, Shawn Goodman and Bill Lange. Interment will be at West Hill Cemetery in Sherman. Arrangements are under the direction of Waldo Funeral Home. Betty Nell Layne was born in Sherman on March 1, 1937. She was the daughter of Sherman realtor, Herman Layne and his wife Louise. Betty graduated from Sherman High school where she played clarinet in the Sherman High marching band. Shortly after high school, Betty met and married Chicago native John R. Musal. At the time, John was in the Air Force stationed at Perrin Field. They were married for 47 years and remained in Sherman where they raised their family. After retirement they remained in Sherman where they enjoyed camping and traveling until John’s death in 2003. Betty acquired a love of music early in her life by learning to play the piano. She continued that love through the years by participating in marching band and later by learning to play the Organ. She enjoyed playing Organ for her friends and especially her family. She inspired a love of music in her sons who also learned to play musical instruments, often joining their mother in family “sing alongs”. As a lifetime resident of Sherman, Betty had many friends, some of whom she had known for most of her life. She was an energetic, friendly woman who enjoyed camping and boating with both her family and friends. She was also well known for acquiring homeless dogs and giving them the same loving and attentive home that she shared with her family. Betty is survived by her two sons, Rick Musal and wife, Michelle of Carrollton, Texas; Mike Musal of Dallas, Texas; Honorary daughter