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Rambler Newspapers to become Texas’ first paid circulation, non-profit paper
IRVING – Rambler Newspapers is working to become a 501(c)(3) organization, and owners John and Stacey Starkey are relinquishing ownership as the newspaper becomes a public organization.

By Alesia Wooldridge
Colorado County Citizen

(Reprinted from the July 27, 2022, edition.)

National Newspaper Week is scheduled Oct. 2 - 8 this year.
Materials will be available soon on the NNW website, www.nationalnewspaperweek.com.
If logos are needed now, click here to access PDFs on the TPA website.
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During traditional ceremonies at the recent TPA Convention and Trade Show, the gavel of the Texas Press Association presidency passed to Leonard Woolsey, (right) TPA's 144th leader. He succeeds Jim Bardwell, who becomes chairman of the TPA board. Also shown is former president Ramona Ferguson, who retired as chairman.

SAN MARCOS – Leonard Woolsey accepted the gavel as president of the Texas Press Association during traditional installation ceremonies at the 2022 TPA Convention and Trade Show.
Woolsey, publisher of The Daily News, Galveston, is the association’s 144th president and succeeds Jim Bardwell, who becomes chairman of the board of directors.

Sweepstakes winners in the 2020-21 Texas Better Newspaper Contest include (from left) Longview News-Journal in Division 2, represented by Becky Cooper, managing editor of the Victoria Advocate, a sister newspaper; Hood County News in Division 3, represented by Publisher Sam Houston; El Campo Leader-News in Division 4, represented by Publisher Shannon Crabtree; Port Aransas South Jetty in Divisi