Oak Hill Gazette
Encyclopedia
Oak Hill Gazette is a weekly tabloid newspaper serving the Oak Hill
area of southwest Austin, Texas
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 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
in the Austin Chronicle
newspaper's Best of Austin readers' poll as "Best Local Non-Chronicle Publication." In 2008, the Oak Hill Gazette won the poll outright.
Atkins and Levers founded The Mountain Villager, a weekly tabloid newspaper in Jericho, Vermont, which they published from 1985 - 1991. 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.
Oak Hill, Texas
Oak Hill is a community in southwest Austin, Texas, United States that was formerly a distinct unincorporated area in southwestern Travis County. Originally called Live Oak Springs, Oak Hill is located on U.S. Highway 290 and Williamson Creek, eight miles south of Downtown Austin.-History:An 1865...
area of southwest Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
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 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
The Onion
The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club...
in the Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle
The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly, tabloid-style 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 demographic...
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. 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.