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The current newspaper, The West Virginia Daily News was launched on January 1, 1967 in Ronceverte, WV. The Printing Press and offices were relocated to Lewisburg WV around 1972. Published Monday through Friday, the newspaper covers local news and events in the Greenbrier Valley, West Virginia, spreading across Greenbrier and Monroe counties ...
Unlike these metropolitan newspapers, a weekly newspaper will cover a smaller area, such as one or more smaller towns or an entire county. Most weekly newspapers follow a similar format as daily newspapers (i.e., news, sports, family news, obituaries). However, the primary focus is on news from the publication's coverage area.
In 2006, John Veasey, a reporter and editor with the paper since 1960, won the Adam R. Kelly Premier Journalist Award, the West Virginia Press Associations' highest honor. [10] The award was established in 1991 in memory of Adam R. Kelly, who was the owner and editor of the Tyler Star News in Sistersville.
The Journal was established as The Evening Journal in 1907 by Harry F. Byrd, a future U.S. Senator and governor of Virginia. [3] Byrd sold the paper in 1912 to associate Max von Schlegell, who sold it to H.C. Ogden in 1923.
The Star News is the result of the 1918 merger between the Tyler County News and the Tyler County Star. [4] The News dated back to 1909, [5] and the Star to 1877. [6]The West Virginia Press Association's highest honor, the Adam R. Kelly Premier Journalist Award, is named after Adam Kelly, former editor and publisher of the Star News. [7]
Morristown (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 39°2′49″N 81°29′33″W / 39.04694°N 81.49250°W / 39.04694; -81
The station went on the air on July 31, 1955, as WHIS-TV. [4] It was named in honor of longtime West Virginia politician Hugh Ike Shott, who had died two years earlier.It was owned by the Shott family's Daily Telegraph Publishing Company, which owned the Bluefield Daily Telegraph along with WHIS radio (1440 AM and 98.7 FM, now WHAJ).
Wood County was strongly Unionist during the Virginia Secession Convention [19] and has been one of the most Republican counties in West Virginia for most of the century and a half since. The only Democrats to win Wood County have been Samuel J. Tilden in 1876, Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and 1916, Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1932 and 1940, Harry ...