Lissa Walls, CEO, has been in the newspaper business since 1980. She began her career as a reporter for the Rosenberg (Texas) Herald Coaster owned by Hartman Newspapers, Inc. and became COO of SNI in 1985. She was elected CEO in March 2014. She serves on the boards of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation, Mutual Insurance Company, PAGE and Trinity University. She was born in Guntersville, Alabama and moved to the Houston, Texas, area with her family in 1973. She is a 1980 graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Walls lives in Houston, Texas.
Dolph Tillotson, president, has been in the newspaper business since 1969. He began his career in news, and he has served as general manager, publisher and president for two community newspaper companies – Southern and Boone Newspapers, Inc.
He is a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and a 1972 graduate of the University of Alabama.
Tillotson lives in Galveston, Texas, with his wife, Teri. He came to work for Southern in 1987 as publisher of The Galveston County Daily News. He was named president of SNI in March 2014.
Ruby Barrow, director of accounting/treasurer and secretary, has been in the newspaper business since 1992.
Barrow began her career as a data entry clerk for Southern Newspapers, Inc. and has served as data entry supervisor, payroll manager, general ledger supervisor and accounting manager.
She was elected secretary in March 2014. She serves on the boards of the Southern Newspapers Inc. Medical and 401(k) Plans. She was born in El Campo, Texas, and moved to the Houston area with her family in 1969.
Barrow lives in Houston with her husband, Bart Barrow, and their three children.
From Carlina Villalpando
Tom Holden, photo editor and IT/systems administrator at The Kerrville Daily Times, is the glue that holds The Times together. Holden celebrated 10 years with the company in August, and Publisher Carlina Villalpando nominated him as Employee of the Month for Southern Newspapers, Inc.
"People go home and data from all over the world gets to their devices. They go to war and they get data from almost nowhere."
Source: New York Times
— William Roper, the head of the Air Force acquisition office, on plans for new communication systems.
Mikala Compton, New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung
Wurstfest president Jim Hill, Harper Emerson Hill, Mollie B and Becky Hill, participate in the ceremonial biting of the sausage during the Wurstfest opening ceremonies on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019.
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