{"id":51415,"date":"2022-04-29T18:47:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51415"},"modified":"2022-04-29T18:47:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:47:21","slug":"hoping-to-see-re-birthed-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51415","title":{"rendered":"Hoping to see re-birthed courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/courthouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51416\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/courthouse-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/courthouse-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/courthouse.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I take at least two trips a year to Bonham, in Fannin County, to see my doctor at the Sam Rayburn VA Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>This next visit coming up soon is going to reward me &#8212; I hope sincerely &#8212; with a look at a refurbished courthouse in the middle of Bonham&#8217;s downtown square.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about it before on this blog, as well as reported on it for KETR-FM radio, where I serve as a freelance reporter for the station&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Fannin County Judge Randy Moore has been salivating &#8212; figuratively, of course &#8212; over the prospect of settling back into the courthouse. The construction fences and the barricades came down in March.<\/p>\n<p>The building is occupied. To which everyone I have spoken to in county government is expressing a huge sigh of relief and accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>According to KXII-TV: <em>\u201cIt means everything to me,\u201d said Barbara McCutcheon, the treasurer of the Fannin County Historical Commission. \u201cI\u2019m gonna cry. It was such an honor to work on it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The county secured a grant from the Texas Historical Commission and supplemented that money with a bond issue that voters approved in 2016. The final product came in over budget, but that did not deter the effort to complete the job. The COVID-19 pandemic, though, did throw a roadblock or two in front of the county along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt stopped a lot of things in its tracks, and you say, \u2018well, how did that stop it?\u2019 Well, we couldn\u2019t get hinges for the doors,\u201d said Judge Moore, according to KXII.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the project is done. I am looking forward very soon to seeing it up close.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take at least two trips a year to Bonham, in Fannin County, to see my doctor at the Sam Rayburn VA Medical Center. This next visit coming up soon is going to reward me &#8212; I hope sincerely &#8212; with a look at a refurbished courthouse in the middle of Bonham&#8217;s downtown square. 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