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Edmonson News
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Edmonson News Publishing Offices in downtown Brownsville
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Jobe Publishing, Inc.
PublisherBill Canty [1]
EditorCathy Canty
FoundedSeptember 1927;96 years ago (1927-09) [2]
Headquarters Brownsville, Kentucky
Circulation 3,704 weekly
Website jpinews.com/the-edmonson-news-home

The Edmonson News, also known by its alternative title The Gimlet, is a weekly newspaper based in Brownsville, Kentucky, and serving Edmonson County in west-central Kentucky, including Brownsville and surrounding communities. Although is published on Wednesdays every week (excluding the final week prior to New Year's Day), its date line on the front page is printed as the Thursday after publishing.

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History

The Edmonson News was first established as The Edmonson County Newspaper by Perry Meloan in September 1927. [3] [4] Bill Canty worked in partnership with Meloan until the latter man died in 1965. After Meloan's death, Canty took over the news paper. Bill Canty has been publishing the newspaper with weekly happenings in the area for a total of 50 years. His wife, Cathy joined the business after their 1971 marriage.

In the wake of Bill and Cathy Canty's retirement plans in 2016, the Edmonson News was purchased by Horse Cave-based Jobe Publishing, Inc., the owner of county newspapers in neighboring Barren, Butler, and Hart counties, along with two additional weekly newspapers in Metcalfe and Monroe Counties. The sale's was finalized on February 1, 2016. [5] Along with a new front-page design, an online version of the Edmonson News was also made available to subscribers for the first time.

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References

  1. Edmonson News , Thursday, October 16, 2014. Page 6
  2. This info is determined by volume number. Volume 95 is the year 2022.
  3. Bledsoe, Lynn (September 7, 2022). "95 Years". Edmonson News. Brownsville, Kentucky. pp. 1–2.
  4. Weekly detail kypress.com Archived October 31, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Terry, Sam (January 13, 2016). "Jobe acquires Edmonson News". Jobe Publishing, Inc. Retrieved January 16, 2016. Editor's note: The news article cited was also featured on the front page of all five Jobe-owned newspapers in the week of January 13–14, 2016.