10/25/2025
Branch Herald is a digital news organization in Farmers Branch, Texas, covering local news, government entities, businesses, sports and community events. The coverage area includes Farmers Branch, Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District and aspects of other entities, such as Dallas County, Dallas Water Utilities, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Metrocrest Services and Metrocrest Chamber of Commerce, that serve residents and businesses of Farmers Branch. All stories are published on the website and hit readers’ email inboxes on the second and fourth Sundays of each month.
Founded in 2023, by local residents Kate Bergeron and Erin Cooper after more than a year of planning with a group of local residents as advisors, the first digital newsletter was published January 14, 2024. The Branch Herald is owned by Rawhide Media Group LLC, which is owned by Kate Bergeron.
Kate Bergeron is a former editor of the now-defunct Leadville Chronicle of Leadville, Colo., which was owned by Swift Communications, the parent company of the Vail Daily, the Summit Daily and many other mountain newspapers. She also was a reporter for the Vail Daily and the Vail Valley Times; a copyeditor for the Greeley Tribune in Greeley, Colo.; and a freelancer for the Osceola Sun in Osceola, Wis., and the Country Messenger, covering local news and government meetings in Marine on St. Croix and Scandia, Minn.
She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists and LION (local. independent. online. news) Publishers.
The Branch Herald is a proud member of the Metrocrest Chamber of Commerce.
The Herald is not affiliated with any political party or political movement within Farmers Branch. Our goal is to be an independent source of community news that is factual, objective and balanced so all Farmers Branch residents feel seen, heard and represented within our community.
MISSION
To be a trusted source of community news so all Farmers Branch residents feel seen, heard and represented within our community.
