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The cover of the Fayette County Record's 100th Anniversary Special Section
With this issue The Fayette County Record begins its 100th year of continuous publication!
Up there near the top of the page it’s official: Volume 100, Number 1.
We’re publishing a special little retrospective looking back at our history in Section B today – including lots of photos and stories from our first 99 years.
Meanwhile, here in Section A it’s business as usual, covering the most current news happening in Fayette County – as we’ve done more than 10,000 issues before.
And as we embark our 100th year we’re not making any big changes to The Record as you know it – with one small exception.
In small letters right under our masthead above we’ve added a small phrase that’s here to stay for a while:
“Texas Largest and Best Semi-Weekly Newspaper”
That ‘best’ part comes from the fact that earlier this year we were crowned by the Texas Press Association as the Sweepstakes winner as the best semi-weekly newspaper in the entire state.
That “largest” part is a more recent development.
Every October newspapers around the nation have to file permits detailing their circulation figures from the previous year.
Last year we were the third largest semi-weekly newspaper in Texas, but according to the newest numbers from the Texas Press Association, we’ve now leap-frogged the two that were larger than us (The Williamson County Sun in Georgetown and the Hood County News in Granbury).
We just got that news last week.
Not a bad way to start our 100th year.
