The Grand Saline Sun is a weekly newspaper published in Grand Saline, Texas

Grand Saline, Texas

Grand Saline is a city in Van Zandt County, Texas, United States, located in East Texas. The population is 3,262. Grand Saline is the third largest city in Van Zandt County and is a part of the Greater Tyler/Longview area...

 in Van Zandt County

Van Zandt County, Texas

As of the census of 2000, there were 48,140 people, 18,195 households, and 13,664 families residing in the county. The population density was 57 people per square mile . There were 20,896 housing units at an average density of 25 per square mile...

. The paper's editorial focus is on local community, city, school and county news.

The paper is currently published on Thursday and has a circulation of about 1,500. Its office is located at 116 N. Main Street. The paper is printed in Longview, Texas

Longview, Texas

Longview is a city in Gregg and Harrison Counties in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 80,455. Most of the city is located in Gregg County, of which it is the county seat; only a small part extends into the western part of neighboring Harrison County. It is...

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The paper's website that displays up to date news and headlines was launched in September of 2009. It can be found at [www.grandsalinesun.net]

History

Founded in 1896, the paper consolidated with at least two other papers in the early 1900s. One of the other papers was named the Grand Saline Salt Shaker and was most likely the source of the graphic of two salt shakers which appear on the current masthead (the town's name comes from a large salt deposit currently mined by Morton Salt

Morton Salt

Morton Salt is a United States company producing salt for food, water conditioning, industrial, agricultural, and road/highway use. Based in Chicago, the business is North America's leading producer and marketer of salt. It is a subsidiary of the German company K+S.-History:The company began in...

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Ownership

The Sun is currently owned by ASP Westward LP, a corporation that owns roughly 70 newspapers in Texas and Colorado. The Sun is a part the group's East Texas division known as "East Texas Community Newspapers."