The Princeton Times is a newspaper serving Princeton, West Virginia, and surrounding Mercer County.[1] Published weekly on Fridays,[2] it has a circulation of 1,390 and is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings.[3]

History

The paper was launched as a daily in July 1961 with the help of Mercer County residents, 300 of whom bought stock in the new venture.[4] Howard Imboden was set up as publisher. The paper was soon sold to southern firm holding over 30 local newspapers, citing need for more capital investment.[4] It dropped its Sunday edition in 1963 and shifted to weekly publication in August 1964.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Newspapers Currently Received in the West Virginia Archives and History Library". West Virginia Division of Culture and History. State of West Virginia. December 2016.
  2. ^ "About Us". Princeton Times. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  3. ^ 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory. West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  4. ^ "Southern Firm Buys Mercer Paper". Beckley Post-Herald. 20 January 1963.
  5. ^ "Princeton Times, A Daily, To Become Weekly Paper". Beckley Post-Herald. 6 August 1964.