The Register is a CNHI paper in Gainesville, the county seat. The Weekly News is a (former?) shopper. It's not all classifieds; it has more local news than the Register. But, it has historically been a non-subscription third-class mailer. That said, I have the "former?" in parentheses because it had gradually been cutting back what ZIP codes were non-subscription within in the county and, as of the first of this year, eliminated Gainesville itself, so it's now a second-class mailer subscription newspaper, or will be, when it changes permits.
At some point, though not until next year, at least if it goes to a second class permit, it will need to file a postal report, and we will see what's on there.
OK, the "versus."
For years, as in, going back a decade, even though a third-class shopper, the Weekly News had and has been running legals from various local governments. And, in the case of Gainesville and Cooke County, the aggrieved party would be the Register. (Indirectly, other newspapers in the county might also be aggrieved parties.)
But, the Register did nothing.
Until about a month ago, it started running information on its classified page that its the official newspaper of both entities.
You know what?
Since that time, the Weekly News has run a Cooke County Sheriff's Office tax sale legal notice. We'll see what, if anything, the Register does besides run another notice in its paper. (Sidebar: The Register legally was running a legal notice from the city of Sherman, so there's that, too.)
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