Havre Weekly Chronicle

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Havre Weekly Chronicle
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)Grand Teton News
PublisherGeorge Ferguson
EditorTim Leeds
Founded1914
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters Havre, Montana
Circulation 3,500(as of 2019) [1]
Website havredailynews.com

The Havre Weekly Chronicle is a weekly newspaper printed in Havre, Montana, US. The paper serves Hill County and the Hi-Line of north-central Montana, named for the northernmost line of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, originally built by the Great Northern Railway.

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History

The Havre Daily Promoter was founded in 1914, [2] and it became the Havre Daily News-Promoter in 1925. [3] R.G. "Liney" Linebarger became publisher in 1920. He sold the newspaper in 1928 and went on to found the Harve Independent in 1931. [4]

The Havre Daily News was purchased by Scripps League Newspapers in 1963, [5] which spun off its newspapers to form Pioneer News Group in 1974. [6] The company sold the newspaper in 2005 to Robb Hicks, Gary Stevenson and Tom Mullen. [5] In 2011, Stacy Mantle succeeded Martin Cody as publisher of the Havre Daily News, and in 2021 sports editor George Ferguson took over as publisher. [7] In May 2024, the paper moved from daily to weekly publication and changed its name to the Havre Weekly Chronicle. [8]

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References

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  4. "Candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Republican Ticket". Montana Labor News. July 14, 1932. p. 5.
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  8. "Our View: A new era for Havre". Havre Weekly Chronicle. May 2, 2024. Retrieved 2024-09-18.