The ''Fort Bend Herald and Texas Coaster'' is a newspaper based in

Rosenberg, Texas Rosenberg is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area and Fort Bend County. Rosenberg was named for Henry Von Rosenberg, who immigrated to Texas from Switzerland in 1843. Von ...

, covering the

Fort Bend County Fort Bend County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The county was founded on December 29, 1837, and organized the next year. It is named for a blockhouse at a bend of the Brazos River. The community developed around the fort in ...

area of

Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we ...

. It publishes six days a week (excluding Saturday). It is owned by Hartman Newspapers.

History

The ''

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Democrat'' (est. 1888) changed its name to ''The Texas Coaster'' in 1895 when George Dunlop purchased it. His family continued to publish the paper after his death in 1900, selling to J.C. Florea in 1905. H.M. Shannon bought the paper in 1911, publishing it until he died in 1938. His son, Windel Shannon, led the paper from 1938 until his own death in 1962. The ''Rosenberg News'' was established in 1900 by George Vinson, and later became the ''Rosenberg Herald''. After local banker F.W. McKay bought the newspaper to rescue it from legal trouble in 1910, it was sold to Marion and Goldie Parrott in 1919, who sold it to Windel Shannon in 1952. In 1957–58,

Southern Newspapers Southern Newspapers Inc. (SNI) is a publishing holding company headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company was founded as Southern Newspapers, Inc., of Tennessee in 1967 by Carmage Walls. Its flagship paper, the '' Galveston County Daily News'' i ...

bought the papers, along with the ''Fort Bend Reporter'' (est. circa 1921) and merged them to form the twice-weekly ''Herald-Coaster''. It became a five-day newspaper in 1967 and was bought by Bill Hartman's newspaper company in 1974. The newspaper added a Friday edition in 1978. In 2005, the publication re-branded itself as the ''Fort Bend Herald and Texas Coaster''.

References

Fort Bend Herald & Texas Coaster
Texas Press Association
Fort Bend Herald: About
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* Daily newspapers published in Texas Rosenberg, Texas Fort Bend County, Texas Newspapers established in 1892 {{Texas-newspaper-stub 1892 establishments in Texas