The Sealy News earned a host of awards at the Texas Press Association convention in Denton over the weekend, including five first-place plaques, second place in the overall sweepstakes and third place in general excellence.

The five category winners were earned for feature writing, headline writing, news photo, page design and community service. The two second-place awards were for news writing and sports photo and a third-place award was for sports writing. In the general excellence category, four consecutive weeks of papers were critiqued and another third-place award was won in that competition.

With eight recognitions, the News racked up 650 points to take second in the sweepstakes race behind only the Pilot Point Post-Signal in Denton. The Ozuna Stockman (400 points) and Hamilton Herald-News (275 points) trailed Sealy.

For the full story, pick up this week’s edition of the paper.