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`*`!Angleton Times`!`* was a newspaper headquartered in `F33f`_`[Angleton, Texas`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Angleton,_Texas]`_`f.

The newspaper, initially based in `F33f`_`[Velasco, Texas`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Velasco,_Texas]`_`f, was established in 1892. Originally it was published five times per week.`:cite-ref-handbook-1-0[`F5bf`_`[1`#cite-note-handbook-1]`_`f] The `*`F33f`_`[Houston Chronicle`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Houston_Chronicle]`_`f`* stated that the publication was established in Angleton in 1893,`:cite-ref-pressesstop-2-0[`F5bf`_`[2`#cite-note-pressesstop-2]`_`f] and the `*`F33f`_`[Handbook of Texas`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Handbook_of_Texas]`_`f`* stated that the publication moved to that city circa 1894. Its publication frequency became five times per week after the move.`:cite-ref-handbook-1-1[`F5bf`_`[1`#cite-note-handbook-1]`_`f]

>>Contents

• `F0af`_`[Decline and closure`#decline-and-closure]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[References`#references]`_`f

• `F0af`_`[External links`#external-links]`_`f

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>>Decline and closure

At the end of its life, `F33f`_`[Southern Newspapers Inc.`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Southern_Newspapers_Inc.]`_`f owned the publication.`:cite-ref-pressesstop-2-1[`F5bf`_`[2`#cite-note-pressesstop-2]`_`f] Circa 1999 the newspaper reduced its publishing schedule to two days per week, Wednesday and Saturday.`:cite-ref-newspapertoclose-3-0[`F5bf`_`[3`#cite-note-newspapertoclose-3]`_`f] In 2004 the `*Angleton Times`* had 1,100 subscribers; that year the `*`F33f`_`[Brazosport Facts`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Brazosport_Facts]`_`f`* had an Angleton circulation of 4,000, and there were 730 people/entities who/which subscribed to both newspapers.`:cite-ref-newspapertoclose-3-1[`F5bf`_`[3`#cite-note-newspapertoclose-3]`_`f]

The newspaper closed in 2004. At the time it had 14 employees, with six being part-time and the rest being full-time. Russell Burnett Jr. was the publisher at the time of closing. The newspaper owners gave severance packages to the majority of employees while `*The Facts`* gave jobs to the other five.`:cite-ref-pressesstop-2-2[`F5bf`_`[2`#cite-note-pressesstop-2]`_`f] The latter publication obtained the reader list of the `*Angleton Times`*,`:cite-ref-handbook-1-2[`F5bf`_`[1`#cite-note-handbook-1]`_`f] and the former `*Angleton Times`* office became the Angleton office of `*The Facts`*.`:cite-ref-newspapertoclose-3-2[`F5bf`_`[3`#cite-note-newspapertoclose-3]`_`f]

>>References

`:cite-note-handbook-1`!1.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-handbook-1-0]`_`f "Angleton, TX". `*`F33f`_`[Handbook of Texas`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Handbook_of_Texas]`_`f`*. Retrieved 2020-06-17.

`:cite-note-pressesstop-2`!2.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-pressesstop-2-0]`_`f "Presses stop rolling for Angleton Times". `*`F33f`_`[Houston Chronicle`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Houston_Chronicle]`_`f`*. 2004-03-28. p. A39. Archived from the original on 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2020-06-17.

`:cite-note-newspapertoclose-3`!3.`! `F0af`_`[↑`#cite-ref-newspapertoclose-3-0]`_`f "Angleton Times to close". `*Angleton Times`*. 2004-03-27. Archived from the original on 2004-04-01. Retrieved 2020-06-17.

>>External links

• Angleton Times at the `F33f`_`[Wayback Machine`:/page/wikibook/entry.mu`zim=wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2025-08.zim|entry_path=Wayback_Machine]`_`f (archive index)

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