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129 Years of Ink and Community: A brief history of the Port Arthur News

Summary by Port Arthur News
On March 18, 2026, the Port Arthur News celebrates 129 years of continuous publication — a remarkable run that began not in a newsroom, but in a baggage car rolling through the American frontier. The newspaper has not missed a single issue since March 18, 1897, when the Stump family, leaving Missouri, printed the first weekly edition aboard a train on their way to a new home in Southeast Texas. What began as a modest weekly publication carved ou…
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Port Arthur News broke the news in on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
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