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Northfork is a town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States, located on U.S. Route 52 between Welch and Bluefield. The population was 231 at the 2020 census . Northfork was incorporated in 1901, so named because of its location on the north fork of the Elkhorn Creek at its junction with the south fork.
The Fayette County Public Library houses microfilm records of census records from 1840 to 1930, newspapers from 1906-present, WV county death, marriage, and birth records, Fayette County yearbooks, local magazines, family collections, the West Virginia Collection, and other miscellaneous collections about West Virginia.
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.
It has been sourced for reporting by the Charleston Gazette-Mail as recently as April 2018, [10] and is considered a paper of public record by the State of West Virginia. [ 11 ] On August 14, 2018, News Media Corporation announced that James Austin would take over as the publisher of The Record Delta , Mountain Statesman , The Weston Democrat.
Founded as the Wheeling Intelligencer in August 1852 by Eli B. Swearingen and Oliver Taylor, The Intelligencer is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the state of West Virginia. The paper was initially established as a means to promote Winfield Scott and the Whig Party in the 1852 United States presidential election .
It took its name after the 1928 merger of the Mineral Daily News and the Keyser Tribune. [4] The Daily News was founded in Keyser in 1912; [1] the other paper had begun as the West Virginia Tribune, published in New Creek, West Virginia, in 1870. [5] Gannett sold the newspaper in 2022 to NCWV Media. [6]
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]