Type | Thrice-weekly |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | News Media Corporation |
Publisher | Nicki Skinner |
Founded | 1870 [1] |
Headquarters | 914 West Main St Grafton, Taylor County, WV 26354 |
Circulation | 1,710 (as of 2016) [2] |
Website |
mountainstatesman |
The Mountain Statesman is a thrice-weekly newspaper serving the Grafton, West Virginia area. [3] Its 2016 circulation was 1,710. [4]
The Statesman began its life as the Grafton Sentinel, a publication that was only weeks old when editor and publisher James W. Holt took it over in 1870. [1] Holt, a 21 year old who had previously worked at the Preston County Journal, went through a series of partners but, aside from a short period of divestment from the paper in 1875, remained editor and publisher of the paper until 1893, [5] and returned to the management of the paper after a short tenure as the county's postmaster. [5]
As a staunchly Republican paper in a majority Democratic county, Holt's publication found surprising success. In 1903 Holt introduced the Daily Sentinel, an eight-page six column evening paper, to serve the growing city of Grafton. [1] [6] Holt continued as publisher and editor until three years before his death, handing control of the paper to his son Howard H. Holt in 1915. [7] [8] The younger son in turn passed it to his son, James F. Holt, on his death in 1936. James left the paper in 1948, selling it to Joseph Abey, a Pennsylvania publisher, after deciding to embark on a career in law. [8]
In 1946, at the age of just 20, Eldora Nuzum became editor of the Sentinel. At the time of her death, multiple local sources identified her as the first female editor of a daily newspaper in West Virginia. [9]
In the 1960s, the paper (and one of its reporters) were known for the Grafton Monster sighting. [10]
In 1975 the Sentinel ceased its daily publication schedule, changed its name to the Mountain Statesman, and moved to the three times a week schedule it uses today. [11]
It is owned by News Media Corporation, which bought the paper in the early 1970s. [12]
James W. Holt Grafton Sentinel Kingwood.
Type | Thrice-weekly |
---|---|
Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | News Media Corporation |
Publisher | Nicki Skinner |
Founded | 1870 [1] |
Headquarters | 914 West Main St Grafton, Taylor County, WV 26354 |
Circulation | 1,710 (as of 2016) [2] |
Website |
mountainstatesman |
The Mountain Statesman is a thrice-weekly newspaper serving the Grafton, West Virginia area. [3] Its 2016 circulation was 1,710. [4]
The Statesman began its life as the Grafton Sentinel, a publication that was only weeks old when editor and publisher James W. Holt took it over in 1870. [1] Holt, a 21 year old who had previously worked at the Preston County Journal, went through a series of partners but, aside from a short period of divestment from the paper in 1875, remained editor and publisher of the paper until 1893, [5] and returned to the management of the paper after a short tenure as the county's postmaster. [5]
As a staunchly Republican paper in a majority Democratic county, Holt's publication found surprising success. In 1903 Holt introduced the Daily Sentinel, an eight-page six column evening paper, to serve the growing city of Grafton. [1] [6] Holt continued as publisher and editor until three years before his death, handing control of the paper to his son Howard H. Holt in 1915. [7] [8] The younger son in turn passed it to his son, James F. Holt, on his death in 1936. James left the paper in 1948, selling it to Joseph Abey, a Pennsylvania publisher, after deciding to embark on a career in law. [8]
In 1946, at the age of just 20, Eldora Nuzum became editor of the Sentinel. At the time of her death, multiple local sources identified her as the first female editor of a daily newspaper in West Virginia. [9]
In the 1960s, the paper (and one of its reporters) were known for the Grafton Monster sighting. [10]
In 1975 the Sentinel ceased its daily publication schedule, changed its name to the Mountain Statesman, and moved to the three times a week schedule it uses today. [11]
It is owned by News Media Corporation, which bought the paper in the early 1970s. [12]
James W. Holt Grafton Sentinel Kingwood.