A sage of the sticks, he's wise and, above all, courageous, battling wrong with such finesse that even his fiercest foes exit smiling. Rockwell prints line an office wall at the Normangee Star, a 1,450-circulation weekly that Hank Hargrave, son of a Brazos Valley dairy farmer, runs out of the remodeled garage behind his house. An ever-present fixture with his digital camera, he balances his primal urge for news with finely honed diplomacy. The Star's office, furnished with a sagging sofa and Hargrave's newspaper-themed collection of ceramic miniatures, seems to invite townsfolk to sit a spell. [...] in the office are a lawnmower, discarded computer monitors and a stack of bound newspapers dating to the 1930s. While largely a one-man operation, Hargrave's daughter, Louisa, a recent nursing school graduate, and his 9-year-old nephew, Bailey Murphy, help prepare the papers for mailing. Bolstered by weekly grocery inserts and occasional ads from an auto dealership, the paper provides an income that, Hargrave said, "covers my obligations and gives me a little extra." In the transition to online media, journalists have discovered the idea of getting back to the notion of community and getting closer to the readers. [...] came another Leon County newspaper's move to snag copies of Normangee school kids' letters to Santa - long a mainstay of the Star's holiday editions. Even the Star is victimized each week by a thief, who drops only two pennies into a self-service news rack before absconding with the latest edition. In March, Hargrave broke out his biggest headline type for a front page story about the discovery of a missing 85-year-old Central Texas woman's body in a shallow grave near a Leon County retirement village.
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