Sunshine Week, the annual national observance highlighting government transparency, is set March 14 - 21.

CENTER – Leon Aldridge has returned to the editor and publisher post at The Light and Champion, a Moser Community Media publication.
He succeeded Mike Elswick, who has served in that capacity the past two and a half years.
A longtime resident of Center, Aldridge served as publisher of The Light and Champion twice previously.

CHILDRESS – LK Media Group and Hicks Media have merged and the company will use the Hicks Media brand going forward with all their newspapers, as well as additional newspapers they acquire, according to a Feb. 12 announcement.
The group includes The Red River Sun, The Post Dispatch, The Floyd County Hesperian-Beacon and The Knox County News-Courier.

PARIS – Nine years after joining The Paris News as an advertising representative, Clay Carsner has assumed the role of publisher.
Leonard Woolsey, president of Southern Newspapers Inc., which owns The Paris News, announced the promotion to the staff. 

Jim Bardwell, publisher of the Gladewater Mirror, Lindale News & Times and the White Oak Independent, was elected president of the Texas Press Association at a special virtual TPA board meeting held Jan. 21. The virtual meeting was held instead of the usual in-person convention meeting due to COVID-19 pandemic health concerns.

Jim Beaver has assumed duties as publisher of The Boerne Star, part of Granite Publications.
Beaver has been with Granite for 12 years, first heading the group’s website sales program and later working with various newspapers in improving sales. Most recently he served as publisher of the Elgin Courier for two years.