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History

The newspaper was founded in 1978 by Beverly "Bev" Carter (1941 in

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- July 6, 2013). Her newspaper included a column written by her, "Bev's Burner." Mike Glenn of the ''

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Fort Bend publisher dies of cancer at 72
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''. July 8, 2013. Retrieved on April 7, 2014. She often criticized politicians including

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and Congressman

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. Carter died of cancer on Saturday July 6, 2013. As of that year, her son, Michael Fredrickson, published the newspaper. In 2017 it was purchased by McElvy Vasquez, LLC, with Jonathan McElvy serving as president and Frank Vasquez serving as publisher. In 2022, it, and other newspapers owned by McElvy Partners LLC (including The Leader and Greensheet, also based in Houston), was sold to Los Angeles-based Street Media. The current editor of The Fort Bend Star is Ken Fountain. Contributing writers include features writer Dayna Worchel, columnist-at-large Lynn Ashby, local columnist Mark Garay, and arts-and-culture columnists Ryan Lee Reid and Janet Sue Reid.

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