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NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers. Gainesville. "West Virginia". N-Net: the Newspaper Network on the World Wide Web. Archived from the original on February 15, 1997. "West Virginia Newspapers". AJR News Link. American Journalism Review. Archived from the original on November 16, 1999. "United States: West Virginia ...
Topix removed the human sexuality topic, which was one of its most popular topics, from its forums on June 26, 2016. The Topix local news and forums were shut down on December 20, 2018. [3] Topix launched new entertainment-focused slideshow and quiz-based sites named Stars and Offbeat in 2015, and has continued to launch additional new sites since.
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of West Virginia. The first such newspaper was The Pioneer Press of Martinsburg, started by J.R. Clifford in 1882. [1] West Virginia's last African American newspaper, the West Virginia Beacon Digest of Charleston, shut down in 2006. [2]
Addison, commonly known as Webster Springs, is a town in and the county seat of Webster County, West Virginia, United States. Although it was incorporated as Addison in 1892, [ 5 ] it is more frequently referred to as Webster Springs, the name of the town's post office . [ 1 ]
Webster was the location of a Union encampment during the American Civil War. It was the birthplace of Anna Marie Jarvis , the founder of Mother's Day as a national holiday in the United States. Her birthplace, known as the Anna Jarvis House , was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
Webster County was formed from parts of Nicholas, Braxton, and Randolph counties in Virginia through the approval of an act of the Virginia General Assembly during its 1859-1860 session. Movement toward the formation of this county began in 1851. [4] [5] Webster became part of West Virginia on June 20, 1863.
In October 1984, two Ogden newspapers (The Intelligencer and The Evening Journal) dropped the Doonesbury comic strip because they objected to Doonesbury's coverage of Ronald Reagan. [ 5 ] On January 30, 2018, it emerged that the company was the apparent high bid to purchase the bankrupt Charleston Gazette-Mail . [ 6 ]
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 ...