{{Short description|Weekly newspaper in Comfort, Texas, US}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Comfort News | image = | caption = | type = Weekly newspaper | format = Broadsheet | founded = {{Start date|1904}} | ceased_publication = | owners = Bob Barton Jr. and Don Trepaignier | founder = Vincent McAteer | publisher = Deborah and Michael Hawkins | editor = Michael Hawkins | circulation = 1,050 | circulation_date = 2023 | circulation_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |title=2023 Texas Newspaper Directory |url=https://publisher.etype.services/The-Texas-Newspaper-Directory/e-paper-regular-edition/EEA520B114811333 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503044946/https://publisher.etype.services/The-Texas-Newspaper-Directory/e-paper-regular-edition/EEA520B114811333 |archive-date=2023-05-03 |access-date=2023-05-03 |website=Texas Press Association}}</ref> | headquarters = 636 Second Street Comfort, Texas 78013 | oclc = 14061151 | ISSN = | website = {{URL|www.thecomfortnews.com/}} }}

'''''The Comfort News''''' is a weekly newspaper in Comfort, Texas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86089091/|title=About The Comfort News|website=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers|publisher=Library of Congress}}</ref>

== History == Originally founded by Vincent McAteer in 1904, it was sold to Emma D'Albini Belsey and her husband George in 1925, with Emma taking over as publisher and editor,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21506787/mrs_george_belsey_rites_in_comfort/|title=Mrs. George Belsey Rites in Comfort|date=19 January 1966|work=Fredericksburg Standard}}</ref> making her one of the early female editors of a Texas newspaper. As the ''Kerrville Times'' exclaimed in 1933: "Who said that a woman could not edit an interesting, up-to-the-minute newspaper!"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21506299/comfort_news_ok/|title=Comfort News O.K.|date=31 August 1933|work=The Kerrville Times}}</ref>

Emma Belsey sold her financial interest in the paper to her son, George Belsey, in 1953,<ref name=":0" /> but remained connected with the publication until the early 1960s.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21506414/mrs_george_belsey_dies_in_comfort/|title=Mrs. George Bailey Dies in Comfort|date=12 January 1966|work=Kerrville Mountain Sun}}</ref> It was sold to Reed Harp in 1968, who subsequently sold it to Bob Barton, Jr. and Don Trepaignier in 1972.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21507138/news_from_comfort/|title=News From Comfort|date=18 May 1972|work=Kerrville Mountain Sun}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{official website|http://thecomfortnews.com}}

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