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. The population was 38,282 at the 2020 census, up from 30,618 at the 2010 census. The community hol ...
, covering the
Fort Bend County
Fort Bend County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. The county was founded in 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 early days.
Th ...
area of
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
. It publishes six days a week (excluding Saturday). It is owned by Hartman Newspapers.
The ''
Richmond 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'' is ...
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 fbherald.com
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Daily newspapers published in Texas
Rosenberg, Texas
Fort Bend County, Texas
Publications established in 1892
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