Greg Shrader has been named publisher of The Daily News. Karla Deluca will remain publisher of The Daily Sentinel. Southern also announced management changes at several of its newspapers as part of the purchase and transition. Mike Graxiola has been named publisher of The Kerrville (Texas) Daily Times. Patrick Graham has been named publisher of The Paris (Texas) News. David Clemons has been named publisher of The Walton Tribune and The Loganville Tribune in Monroe, Ga. Southern Newspapers and its affiliated companies now operate 17 newspapers in Texas, Alabama and Georgia. The company is owned by the Walls family of Houston.Originally planned to be complete by mid-2022, the $1.6 million renovation project at Zion Hill Church has been affected by two years of supply chain breakdowns and other issues associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. “Once we do, I’ll be telling everybody about it.” “We are looking at fall of this year, but we don’t have an exact date,” Sowell said. landscape architect receives national medal for helping preserve African American landmarks Many Nacogdoches natives who grew up admiring the Gothic revival style building were thrilled at the news that a decades-long effort to revitalize and reopen it to the public will soon come to fruition. “As a kid, many times I went to that church, unfortunately more often when it was in disrepair,” said District Judge Jeff Davis, who grew up in Nacogdoches. “It’s been a 30-year project, getting this done.”īuilt in 1914 by architect Diedrich Rulfs, the building likely wouldn’t be standing today, Sowell said, if the Nacogdoches County Historical Society had not intervened in the 1990s, raising money and securing grants for major repairs after the church sat vacant and deteriorating for a decade. The historical society deeded the building to the city in 2010. Since then, it has been a work in progress as more grants and donations were raised through the years to restore and repurpose it into a museum and events venue. “Our plan is to focus on the African American history of that region, of the church and the neighborhood around it,” Sowell said. The Zion Hill Historic District grew and developed during the 1880s and 1890s as a Black neighborhood on what was then the northeast edge of Nacogdoches. Residents typically worked in downtown businesses or for affluent white families living on nearby Mound Street. Its shotgun- and New Orleans-style homes are largely just as they were in the early 1900s. “Those aren’t things you normally see preserved,” Sowell said.
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