About Us

About Us

Representing Sealy, Texas, and surrounding Austin County, The Sealy News has been in publication since 1887 as, "A newspaper devoted to local news all the time." The Sealy News collection has been made accessible through a Tocker Foundation grant awarded to the Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.

Area Publisher
Tressa Alley
tressa.alley@coloradocountycitizen.com

Tressa

 

Area Editor
Jimmy Galvan
jimmy.galvan@sealynews.com

Jimmy

 

Office Manager
Carrie Waid
carrie.waid@sealynews.com

Carrie

 

Sales Support Associate
Abenezer Yonas
Abenezer.yonas@sealynews.com

Abenezer

 

 

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 READER SERVICES

Main number: (979) 885-3562   

Mailing address: P.O. Box 480, Sealy, Texas 77474

Known office of publication: 327 Fowlkes Street, Sealy, Texas 77474

The Sealy News is a weekly publication distributed on Thursdays.

DEADLINES

The deadline for all submissions is Friday at 3 p.m. for the next week’s paper.

  • Ad Display and Editorial are due Fridays at 3 p.m. 
  • Class/word is due Monday at noon
     

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The Sealy News publishes letters to the editor on most topics. Send your letters to jimmy.galvan@sealynews.com by Friday at 3 p.m. for the Thursday edition. Written letters should be signed and include the writer’s full address and phone number. Letters to the editor should be as brief as possible and no more than 300 words. We reserve the right to edit all letters. Anonymous letters will not be published.

EDITORIAL REQUIREMENTS

All announcements – weddings, anniversaries, engagements, newborns, birthdays and obituaries – are run for a $75 flat rate. A $10 fee will be charged for affidavits produced by the newspaper.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

The Sealy News is published weekly on Thursday. Subscriptions in Austin County are $50 per year; outside of Austin County in Texas, $60; outside Texas, $78 per year. Notices of change of address should be mailed to The Sealy News, P.O. Box 480, Sealy, TX 77474-0480

AFFILIATIONS

The Sealy News is a member of the Texas Press Association.

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