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The Pennsboro News is a newspaper serving Pennsboro, West Virginia, and surrounding Ritchie County.[2] Published weekly, it has a paid circulation of 3,976 and is owned by West Central Publishing, Inc.[3]

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History

The paper's history dates back to the 1890s.[4] Founded as the Lever, by Will A. Strickler, and sold to a man named Smith who changed its name to the Pennsboro News, it changed names ownership a number of times before falling to J. A. Wooddell.[5] D. A. Fawcett, an editor at the paper, bought it in 1899.[6] Wooddell, former editor of the Roxboro Courier, took over the paper in 1901.[7] In 1906, the paper's facilities were destroyed by fire, but Woodell immediately purchased a new plant.[8]

By 1911, it was the only paper in Pennsboro.[5] In 1915, the paper was sold to Gordon Fought, who took over the editorship as well.[9]

It currently bills itself as Ritchie County's most widely read newspaper.[10]

References

  1. [1]
    2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Newspapers Currently Received in the West Virginia Archives and History Library" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. State of West Virginia. December 2016.
  3. [3]
    2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  4. [4]
    "About The Pennsboro news". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  5. [5]
    Lowther, Minnie Kendall (1911). History of Ritchie County: With Biographical Sketches of Its Pioneers and Their Ancestors, and with Interesting Reminiscences of Revolutionary and Indian Times. Wheeling News Litho Company.
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    "In and around Piedmont". The Baltimore Sun. 29 June 1899. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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    "Untitled Item". The Roxboro Courier. 9 October 1901. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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    "Untitled". The Weekly Register. 4 April 1906. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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    "Newspaper sold". The Daily Telegram. 20 April 1915. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  10. [10]
    "Pennsboro News - This Week's Issue". Pennsboro News. Retrieved 14 August 2018.


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