Sixty years ago, on Sept. 6, 1966, the Citizen Tribune was born.

The paper was created to serve the eight-county Lakeway Region, providing news coverage on a broader basis and helping the paper’s advertisers reach a wider audience.

Through the ensuing decades, the Tribune has documented the Region’s growth, from its development as a furniture and textile manufacturing mecca to its rebirth as a diverse manufacturing hub and budding tourism destination.

The Tribune has been there to document the lives of the people of the Lakeway Region as well as their extraordinary achievements.

Citizen Tribune founding publisher R. Jack Fishman has often said, the newspaper business is a people business.

Today, his son, R. Michael Fishman, editor/publisher of the Tribune and president of Lakeway Publ

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