Blooming Grove TX
What is going on in Blooming Grove, and what has gone on.
The paper that stopped
Twenty-five issues, seven hundred and thirty-four pages, and no last one.
Written by Robert Phipps · Photograph by Cindie Phipps
The Community News came out of the library on Fordyce Street from March 2009 to May 2012. Nobody knew the May issue was the last one, which is why it does not say goodbye.
It was printed on the library's own equipment at two cents a page, six hundred copies, four hundred and ninety-five of them carried out to thirty-one places — sixty to A-1 Grocery, fifty to the post office, forty to the newsstand by the door. April 2009 cleared sixty-three dollars. Through a commercial printer the same issue would have lost a hundred and sixty-six. There was never a version of this that worked without the library.
The plan was thirty sections and nineteen people to feed them. What it did not survive was one person carrying a monthly deadline. All seven hundred and thirty-four pages are here, as printed, and so are the two single-page issues that appeared in 2015 and stopped again.
The whole run is in the archives, with three generations of the town's website.
The archives
Getting things done in Blooming Grove
Where a thing is not published anywhere, there is a number to call instead.
Community information last reviewed 10 September 2026.
The school
Churches
Immaculate Conception, out west on Highway 22, was on the town's website twenty years ago and is not on the city's list now.
Community assets
The year in Blooming Grove
From the city council minutes and The Community News, 2009–2012.
Who was in business here
Anyone trading in Blooming Grove now can have a listing that is right, free.
From the newspaper's advertiser records and the town's website of the mid-2000s.
Blooming Grove is one of six towns on Blackland TX — the record of the small towns on the Blackland Prairie, and of the crossroads between them.