Published: December 06, 2005 08:36 am      

About Us

The Item is located at 1409 10th St., Huntsville, TX 77342-0539, across the street from the old Huntsville post office. The building was constructed in the late 1960s and sits on the banks of Town Creek. It houses 45 full time and about 30 part time Item employees and a 10 unit Goss Community printing press. The Item was established in 1850 and is the second oldest continuously published newspaper in the state of Texas. In addition to the Item, with a circulation of 7,000 daily/8,000 Sunday, the Texas Trader, the TMC Wednesday shopper, with distribution of 20,000, the TDCJ Region One Round-Up, with a 9,000 circulation monthly, we also print the Texas A&M University student newspaper, The Battalion whose circulation is 22,000 daily, the Sam houston State University, The Houstonian, circulation 5,500 weekly and a whole host of other commercial printing products.