TAYLOR — Granite Media Partners Inc. has named veteran journalist Thomas Edwards as executive editor to round out its management team, CEO Daniel Philhower accounced.
Granite Media Partners Inc. operates 10 non-daily newspapers and a printing press. 

RUSK – Cherokeean Herald staff members John and Penny Hawkins acquired the newspaper on Jan. 1.
John Hawkins is general manager and publisher of the newspaper and Penny Hawkins is part of the editorial staff.

KYLE – With the retirement of long-time publisher Cyndy Slovak-Barton, Something More Newspapers has acquired Barton Publications, publishers of the Hays Free Press in Kyle and News Dispatch in Dripping Springs.
Something More Newspapers is owned and operated by Tania French and her two daughters Ashley Kontnier and Schelly Bartels. The company also owns the Port Lavaca Wave.

KYLE – After 38 years in the newspaper business and serving as publisher for the Hays Free Press / News-Dispatch for more than two decades, Cyndy Slovak-Barton retired to take over other family ventures.

Obituaries published in the February 2022 edition of the Texas Press Messenger.

GLADEWATER – Award-winning journalist and journalism educator Suzanne Bardwell, wife of TPA President Jim Bardwell, died Jan. 7 following a traffic accident in Longview.