Moorefield Examiner
Typetwice-weekly
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)R.E. Risher Co. Inc.
PublisherMr. and Mrs. David O. Heishman
EditorPhoebe F. Heishman
Founded1874[1]
Headquarters132 S Main St, Moorefield, Hardy County, WV 26836
Circulation3,818[2]
ISSN0740-2651
OCLC number9921953
Websitehardylive.com

The Moorefield Examiner is an American weekly newspaper serving Hardy County, West Virginia.[3] It is owned by R.E. Risher Co. Inc. and has a circulation of 3,818.[4]

History

While claiming antecedents dating back to 1845,[5] the Examiner itself was founded in 1874 by Samuel D. Gordon.[1] It quickly became the leading democratic newspaper in the South Branch Valley, and was in those early years the only newspaper published in Hardy county.[6]

Sam McCoy's son-in-law, Ralph E. Fisher, took over the paper in 1935 after Sam's death,[7][8] with Sam's wife Eunice as co-publisher.[9] For five years it was run as a co-op while Fisher was on active duty in the Navy.[7] Fisher died of a heart attack, at age 62, in 1968.[8] Since that time the paper has been run by his daughter. Phoebe F. Heishman, her husband David, and their son James.[10] The paper's website claims the newspaper is Hardy County's only locally owned and operated newspaper.[10]

Resources

  1. 1 2 "Weekly Examiner". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  2. ↑ 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  5. ↑ United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Library of Congress. 1962.
  6. ↑ Pettengill's Newspaper Directory and Advertisers' Handbook. S.M. Pettengill & Company. 1878.
  7. 1 2 "Moorefield Paper Owners To Resume Publication".
  8. 1 2 "Publisher's Service Set Tomorrow". Cumberland Evening Times. 30 September 1968.
  9. ↑ West Virginia History, Volumes 51-52. State Department of Archives and History. 1992. p. 81.
  10. 1 2 "About". Moorefield Examiner.


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