News-Dispatch publisher honored with resolution from Zwiener

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Staff Report on January 29, 2020

Our local state representative Erin Zwiener stopped by the Hays Free Press/News-Dispatch office to present our publisher Cyndy Slovak-Barton a resolution in recognition of her induction to the Texas Newspaper Foundation Hall of Fame. Congratulations Cyndy!

RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Cyndy Slovak-Barton, award-winning publisher of the Hays Free Press in Kyle and the Dripping Springs News-Dispatch, is being inducted into the Texas Newspaper Foundation Hall of Fame on January 17, 2020; and

WHEREAS, A native ...

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