Type | Semi-weekly newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Vernon Publishing |
Founder(s) | J. W. Vincent |
Publisher | Trevor Vernon |
Editor | Dan Field |
Founded | 1879 (as the Linn Creek Reveill) |
Headquarters | 4427 Osage Beach Parkway, Osage Beach, Missouri 65065, United States |
Website | lakenewsonline |
The Lake Sun Leader is a semi-weekly newspaper, with Wednesday and Friday editions, published in Osage Beach, Missouri, United States, covering the Lake of the Ozarks region. It is owned by Vernon Publishing.
In addition to Osage Beach, the newspaper also covers Camden, Miller, and Morgan Counties as well as the cities of Camdenton, Climax Springs, Eldon, Lake Ozark, Laurie, Linn Creek, Macks Creek, Sunrise Beach, Versailles, and Village of Four Seasons.
The Linn CreekReveille was founded in 1879 by J. W. Vincent. After his death in 1933, the paper was sold to Clint Webb in 1933 and then G. T. Richards in 1937. The paper became the Lake Sun Leader sometime in the early 1990’s. [1]
In August 2021, Gannett sold the newspaper to Vernon Publishing, Inc. [2]
Miller County is a county located in the northern Ozarks region of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 24,722. Its county seat is Tuscumbia. The county was organized February 6, 1837, and named for John Miller, former U.S. Representative and Governor of Missouri.
Camden County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 42,745. Its county seat is Camdenton. The county was organized on January 29, 1841, as Kinderhook County and renamed Camden County in 1843 after Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom and leader of the British Whig Party. Camden County is also the primary setting of the Netflix show Ozark.
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