At last week’s City Council meeting, Mayor Jim Chiles and council members presented a Community Excellence Award to The Wimberley View. On hand to receive the award was Teresa Kendrick, Managing Editor and Regional Editor Dalton Sweat, who was at the helm of The Wimberley View for a decade. Place One Council Member and Mayor Pro Tem, Rebecca Minnick, bestowed the honor with written remarks, edited here for space: “The Community Excellence Award is presented to The Wimberley View in recognition of your initiative and talent in reporting and highlighting what is important in our community.
Throughout the country, community newspapers are closing up shop. Between 2005 and 2022, 2,500 closed across the country; 211 community newspapers in Texas alone. At least 27 counties in Texas currently have no newspaper at all.
In this landscape, the Wimberley Valley is so fortunate – and increasingly unique – to have the Wimberley View to report our news, to mark important milestones and to record events large and small throughout our community.
According to the Library of Congress, The Wimberley View has been operating since 1976. The Library of Congress also noted that the “preceding title” of the publication was “The Wimberley Mill,” which was published from 1966 to 1976. That’s 48 years of The View and 58 years of community news in The Wimberley Valley.
And here we are in 2024, and the View has evolved as the cities of Wimberley and Woodcreek have been creat-ed, grown and changed. Teresa Kendrick has followed in the footsteps of Editor, now Regional Editor, Dalton Sweat, and has brought a new energy to news coverage in the Wimberley Valley.
Her “Riffs, Roams and Raves” column was an instant hit. Teresa brought that excitement and sensibility as a Texas Hill Country columnist to her new position as Managing Editor of The View.
As consumers of news and as citizens who value facts and reliable information, The Wimberley View holds a special place in our community. We are grateful for the people who produce it, from Dalton Sweat, to Teresa and her contributing writers and all of those staffers behind the scenes who faithfully produce our community newspaper. It is a treasure in our community, our state and our country.”
