Apache Junction News

Last updated
Apache Junction & Gold Canyon News
TypeWeekly Newspaper
FormatBroadsheet, Online
Owner(s)Chuck & Pattie Baker
Founded1997
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersApache Junction Pinal County, Arizona [1]
Circulation 35,000 [2]
OCLC number 47227043
Website http://www.ajnews.com/ [ dead link ]

Apache Junction News is a newspaper in Apache Junction, Arizona, United States. [3] [4] It was founded in 1997 by current owners Chuck and Pattie Baker. [5] The paper, now known as The Apache Junction & Gold Canyon News, serves the communities of Apache Junction and Gold Canyon in Pinal County, Arizona. [3]

The newspaper features "The Kollenborn Chronicles", authored by noted author and historian of the Superstition Wilderness Tom Kollenborn. His weekly column in the Apache Junction & Gold Canyon News is published on his blog by Apache Junction library staff one week after publication in the newspaper. [6]

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