PEARSALL – Frio-Nueces Current managing editor Manuel Azocar III and business manager Kasie Rendon have purchased the newspaper from longtime owner and publisher Craig Garnett.

The sale, which became effective June 1, leaves the new owners in charge of all operations — reporting, advertising sales and distribution. The newspaper operates with a staff of five, plus delivery personnel.

The historic Foard County News is once again serving readers across Foard County after being acquired by Lance Publishing LLC and returned to publication earlier this year.

Shane Lance, owner of Lance Publishing LLC and publisher of the Quanah Tribune-Chief, purchased the Foard County News from longtime owner Kent Smith following the newspaper’s closure in January.

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.