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MERKEL, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – An Abilene man died in a rollover accident in Merkel on Monday morning. On Monday, October 28, at 7:10 a.m., a single-vehicle crash occurred on I-20 near the Iron ...
Newspapers listed in the 2023 Texas Newspaper Directory [1] Title City Ownership Year founded Publication days Circulation (2023) Note Abernathy Advocate: Abernathy: 2017 Friday 298 Abilene Reporter-News: Abilene: Gannett: 1881 Daily (ex Sat) 4,499 Albany News: Albany: 1875 Thursday 849 The Community News: Aledo: 1995 Friday 1,778 Alice Echo ...
Around 1870, when the Texas and Pacific Railway was built, the city was founded as Windmill Town. In 1881, it was renamed as Merkel in honor of the first settler in this area, S. M. Merkel, from Germany. In 1882, the first mercantile store and in 1883, the first post office opened. [6]
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 bought the papers, along with the Fort Bend Reporter (est. circa 1921) and merged them to form the twice-weekly Herald-Coaster .
Merkel, who was born in upstate New York, was described as having a "religious-like devotion" to the Bills as well as the Syracuse Orange. His obituary calls him an "avid fisherman" and "sports ...
The Herald Democrat is a daily newspaper located in the twin cities of Sherman and Denison, Texas, in the United States.The Herald Democrat serves all of Grayson and Fannin County, Texas; parts of Collin, Cooke, Denton, Delta, Lamar and Hunt County, Texas; and part of Bryan County, Oklahoma.
KMXO (1500 AM) is a Spanish-language radio station licensed to Merkel, Texas, and serving the Abilene area. Because KMXO shares the same frequency as " clear channel " station KSTP in St. Paul , Minnesota ; it broadcasts only during the daytime hours .
In 1913, it merged with the Brenham Daily Banner to form the Brenham Daily Banner Press, which was published as a daily and weekly newspaper from 1913–1926. [2] The paper became the first daily in Texas to hire a female editor, in 1917. [3] Brenham Daily Banner Press publisher George A.T. Neu was president of the Texas Press Association in 1927.