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

HEBBRONVILLE – The Enterprise has marked 100 years and more than 5,000 editions.

In a story published May 6, Publisher Pancho Hernandez Jr. noted that when the newspaper began, a year’s subscription for Hebbronville and Jim Hogg County residents was $2.

“It was also a time when pressmen cranked their presses to produce the newspaper for the weekly editions,” Hernandez noted.

From the Victoria Advocate

VICTORIA – The Victoria Advocate is celebrated its 180th anniversary May 8, marking nearly two centuries of chronicling the history, growth and transformation of the Crossroads region.

Obituaries published in the June 2026 edition of the Texas Press Messenger.

Jill Darden

FORT WORTH - Fort Worth Black News founder Jill Darden, 52, died suddenly April 24 — days before her birthday on May 2, her sister Ginger Darden-Ford confirmed.

AUSTIN — The Texas Newspaper Foundation has selected four exemplary journalists – William Blair Jr., Randy Mankin, Frank Mayborn and Burl Osborne — for induction into the Texas Newspaper Foundation Hall of Fame in June.