{{Short description|Newspaper in West Jefferson, North Carolina}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Coord|36|24|10.3|N|81|29|43.5|W|display=title}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Ashe Post & Times | logo = Jefferson Post logo.png | logo_size = 200px | image = | caption = | type = Biweekly newspaper | format = | owners = Adams Publishing Group | publisher = Ron Clausen | editor = Adam Orr | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = 1925 | political_position = | language = English | headquarters = 203 South Second Avenue, West Jefferson, North Carolina {{USA}} | circulation = 3,057 | circulation_date = 2021 | circulation_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-01 |title=Western North Carolina Circulation Map |url=https://adamspg.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/21.03-Western-NC-1.pdf |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=Adams Publishing Group}}</ref> | oclc = 244898941 | website = {{URL|jeffersonpost.com}} | ceased_publication = | sister_publications = | ISSN = }}
The '''''Ashe Post & Times''''' is a bi-weekly newspaper printed in West Jefferson, North Carolina. It prints news, announcements, and obituaries as the newspaper of record for Ashe County. The newspaper formed after ''The Jefferson Post'' and ''Ashe Mountain Times'' merged in 2017. The newspaper is owned by Adams Publishing Group.
==History== The ''Jefferson Post'' began publishing in 1988. The newspaper is the result of a merger between Ashe County's historic weekly newspaper ''The Skyland Post'' and a competing weekly of 10 years, the ''Jefferson Times''.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.ashepostandtimes.com/site/about.html | title=About Us }}</ref>
''The Skyland Post'' got its name from an early slogan for mountainous Ashe County, "The Land of the Sky." ''The Skyland Post'' was purchased in the 1930s by Ed M. Anderson, whose newspaper empire included ''The Alleghany News'' in Sparta, the ''Spindale Sun'' in Spindale, the ''Transylvania Times'' in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and the ''Courier'' in Forest City. Stella W. Anderson was editor of ''The Skyland Post'' from her husband's death until the early-1980s when it was purchased by Patty Wheeler, and her husband, Al.
In October 1988, ''The Skyland Post'' merged with the ''Jefferson Times'', which had been competing with the ''Post'' since August 1978.
The paper was formerly owned by Mid-South Management Company, which was acquired by Heartland Publications in 2007. In 2012, Versa Capital Management merged Heartland Publications, Ohio Community Media, the former Freedom papers it had acquired, and Impressions Media into a new company, Civitas Media.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 11, 2012 |title=Versa Capital Announces the Formation of Civitas Media, LLC; Combines Four Community News Groups for Growth, Best Practices |work=BusinessWire |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120911006840/en/Versa-Capital-Announces-Formation-Civitas-Media-LLC |access-date=October 5, 2023}}</ref> Civitas Media sold its properties in the Carolinas to Champion Media in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-30 |title=Quarterly Updates - 2nd Quarter 2017 |url=http://dirksvanessen.com/articles/view/225/2nd-quarter-2017/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825134209/http://dirksvanessen.com/articles/view/225/2nd-quarter-2017/ |archive-date=August 25, 2018 |accessdate=2017-10-28 |work=Dirks, Van Essen & Murray}}</ref> Later in 2017, Champion Media sold its Mount Airy area newspapers to Adams Publishing Group.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 16, 2017 |title=Adams Publishing Group acquires Mount Airy Group from Champion Media |work=The Yadkin Ripple |url=http://www.yadkinripple.com/news/8178/adams-publishing-group-acquires-mount-airy-group-from-champion-media |access-date=October 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113112930/http://www.yadkinripple.com/news/8178/adams-publishing-group-acquires-mount-airy-group-from-champion-media |archive-date=November 13, 2017}}</ref> The newspaper is now called ''The Ashe Post & Times'' after ''The Jefferson Post'' and ''Ashe Mountain Times'' merged on December 1, 2017.
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==External links== * [http://www.jeffersonpost.com/ ''Jefferson Post''] * [http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NCPAPERSCIRC2002.html The Park Library's list of North Carolina newspapers, by circulation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081009054321/http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/NCPAPERSCIRC2002.html |date=2008-10-09 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060602045556/http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/ncnp/ashe.htm Ashe County Newspapers at the North Carolina Newspaper Project]
Category:Ashe County, North Carolina Category:Defunct newspapers published in North Carolina
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