Villalpando returns to Times succeeding Bell as publisher

KERRVILLE – Former managing editor Carlina Villalpando has returned to the Kerrville Daily Times as publisher, succeeding Neice Bell, who has moved to New Braunfels as publisher of the Herald-Zeitung.
Dolph Tillotson, president of Southern Newspapers Inc., announced the management change.
Villalpando returns to Kerrville from Tyler, where she was interim advertising director for the Tyler Morning Telegraph. She also served as director of the Butler Creative Group, a digital marketing and website design company within the Telegraph.
Villalpando went to Tyler in 2015 as managing editor after more than 10 years with the Kerrville Daily Times, starting as in intern in 2004 while attending Howard Payne University in Brownwood.
She became the newspaper’s education reporter while finishing her degree. Villalpando later covered local government before taking over as lifestyles editor in 2006. She became managing editor in 2009, an experience she later characterized as being instrumental in growing her commitment to community journalism.
Bell, also a Daily Times veteran who started her career there, became publisher of the Herald-Zeitung in November and will continue working with the Kerrville newspaper as part of Southern Newspapers’ management team.