Kerens changes hands

KERENS — The Kerens Tribune changed ownership July 1.

The firm McMillian and Baker Publishing purchased the newspaper from Gail Christie.

Tony McMillian will serve as publisher and Beverly Richards as advertising director.

ACM buys 2 Valley papers

EDINBURG — American Consolidated Media has purchased the Rio Grande Herald and Edinburg Review.

The Herald is a weekly and the Review publishes as a free semiweekly after ceasing paid daily circulation earlier this year.

Publisher Pearl Mathis drops her title at the Review and Herald but will continue as editor in Edinburg. The newspapers have been in her family since the mid-1960s.

Dallas-based ACM, whose chief officer is Jeremy Halbreich, also owns four editions of the Bargain Book in Cameron County and Laredo, and other free publications the Valley Town Crier, Rio Grande Valley Business Journal and The Original Winter Texan, all in McAllen.

The company has 27 publications throughout Oklahoma and Texas.

Odessa newsracks stolen

ODESSA — Five Odessa American newspaper dispensers were stolen between midnight and 8 am. June 13 from outside five local retail establishments and restaurants. Odessa American circulation director Linda Fury said she didn’t know why anyone would want to steal a newspaper rack since the change is emptied frequently.