Showing off division sweepstakes awards in the 2024 Texas Better Newspaper Contest are (from left) Nicholas Cicale, Williamson County Sun in Division 3; Kylie Bailey, Graham Leader in Division 4; Ken Cooke, Fredericksburg Standard Radio-Post in Division 5; Abigail Allen, Pilot Point, Post Signal in Division 6; Craig Garnett, Pearsall, Frio-Nueces Current in Division 7; Ana Cosino-Mize, Madi

LUFKIN – The Lufkin Daily News and The Daily Sentinel in Nacogdoches welcomed  some exciting leadership changes on June 30, Southern Newspapers Inc. President Leonard Woolsey announced.

SILSBEE – Dennis and Veronica Phillips of Phillips Publishing, LLC, have purchased the Silsbee Bee from Hicks Media.

Promotions, new hires and other employment news reported by Texas newspaper and published in the July 2025 edition of the Texas Press Messenger.

ALLISON DRINNON

Sealy News, Colorado County Citizen

SEALY – Allison Drinnon has joined the staff of Granite Media Partners I-10 Group as an area reporter.

Obituaries published in the July 2025 edition of the Texas Press Messenger.

ROBERT BORDEN

BRYAN – Former Eagle opinions page editor Robert Borden, who retired last year after being at The Eagle in Bryan for 38 years, died May 25 in Tomball, where he had moved only a few weeks earlier from Bryan. He was 75.

AUSTIN — The Legislature has adjourned, and newspapers represented by the Texas Press Association are legally stronger than they were when it convened.

ANALYSIS By MIKE HODGES and DONNIS BAGGETT, Texas Press Association