Friends and family gathered June 12 at the Hamilton Herald-News for a bittersweet retirement celebration for longtime HHN Editor and Co-publisher Maria Weaver. Shown are (from left) HHN team members Jaxon Hansard, Janice Velasquez, Publisher Grant Lengefeld, Weaver and Kim Tyson. Not pictured, Kate Edwards.    Photo by Saundra Lengefeld

A newspaper writer from Texas will receive a $5,000 state award from the Center for Integrity in News Reporting at the annual TPA Convention and Trade Show.

In November 2025, the center received a grant from the SNPA Foundation to fund awards in 14 Southeast states as an extension of the CFINR national awards. Texas was among the 14 states included in the first round of state awards.

The Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas will hold an open government seminar on June 18 in Dallas in conjunction with the Texas Press Association Convention and Trade Show at the Hyatt Regency DFW Airport Hotel.

COOPER, Texas — Ashley Colvin, publisher of the Cooper Review, makes her living by wearing two hats —  figuratively, at least.

One is the hat of a weekly journalist working in the trenches of her hometown. In an earlier era, a black-and-white PRESS card would have been tucked into the hatband of her fedora.

MINEOLA – TPA Past President Phil Major announced his retirement from the Texas newspaper industry with the sale of the Wood County Monitor in early May.

Major addressed the sale and his retirement in a column published May 7 in the Monitor.

“We leave the paper in the more-than-capable hands of new owner-publisher James Taylor and manager Carley Tucker,” Major wrote.

The Red River Sun in Childress became the Greenbelt Intrepid with the May 1 edition. Publisher and owner Roger Estlack discussed the change in this column, published the same day the name changed.

By ROGER ESTLACK, Publisher, The Greenbelt Intrepid