''Oak Hill Gazette'' is a former weekly community newspaper serving the
Oak Hill area of southwest
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the county seat, seat and largest city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson co ...
since 1995. The ''Gazette'' is published every Wednesday and has a circulation that varies from 5,000 to 6,500. The newspaper's scope is hyper-local, covering only southwest Austin area news. The Gazette appears to be defunct, as the website has not been updated since 2017, and their facebook page has not been updated since 2013.
The Oak Hill Association of Neighborhoods claims the ''Gazette'' is the best place to find local school news.
The paper does not run political endorsements or editorials but does publish user-generated Letters to the Editor and opinion pieces.
In 2007, the ''Oak Hill Gazette'' tied with ''
The Onion
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'' in the ''
Austin Chronicle
''The Austin Chronicle'' is an alternative weekly newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States. The paper is distributed through free news-stands, often at local eateries or coffee houses frequented by its targeted demogra ...
'' newspaper's Best of Austin readers' poll as "Best Local Non-Chronicle Publication." In 2008, the ''Oak Hill Gazette'' won the poll outright.
The publishers
Owners and publishers, Will Atkins and Penelope Levers (husband and wife), are native Austinites who have been publishing weekly community newspapers since 1985.
Atkins and Levers founded ''The Mountain Villager'', a weekly tabloid newspaper in Jericho, Vermont, which they published from 1985 - 1991.
Editor and Publisher Magazine, "Buyers' Digest, a Georgia, Vt. based weekly (ownership changes) p.21"
/ref> After selling that paper, they started another weekly, The ''Cambridge Chronicle'' in Cambridge, Vermont, which they published from 1991 - 1994 and then the ''Morrisville Messenger'', which they published from 1993 - 1994. In 1995 they moved back to Austin, Texas and started the ''Oak Hill Gazette''.
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References
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External links
Official Web siteAustin Chronicle's 2007 Best of Austin AwardsDescription of the ''Gazette'' from Mondo Times
Newspapers published in Austin, Texas
Weekly newspapers published in Texas