Lincoln County Record

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Lincoln County Record
Lincoln County Nevada's News Source
The nameplate
Lincoln County Record front page 2025-03-14.jpg
Caliente Depot on the front page of March 14, 2025
Type Weekly newspaper
OwnerBen Rowley
FounderH.R. Pitchford
PublisherNevada Central Media
Managing editorCarly Sauvageau
Staff writersCollin Anderson, Jason Beam, Jessica Hernandez, Summer Mastin
Former names [1]
  • Ely Record (1870–1872)
  • Pioche Daily Record (1872–1876)
  • Pioche Tri-Weekly Record (1876–1876)
  • Pioche Weekly Record (1877–1900)
  • Lincoln County Record (1900–1905)
  • Pioche Weekly Record (1906–1908)
  • Pioche Record (1908–1925)
Founded1870;156 years ago (1870) [2]
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersPost Office Box 635
Alamo, Nevada 89001
Circulation 1,800 [3]
ISSN 8755-3260
Website lccentral.com

The Lincoln County Record is a weekly newspaper [4] covering Lincoln County, Nevada. [5] Originally founded as the Ely Record, [1] it is the second oldest weekly newspaper in Nevada. [6] The paper focuses on local stories to provide community journalism for the rural area. [5]

Contents

History

In September 1870, H.R. Pitchford founded the Ely Record newspaper in Ely and printed it out of a tent. [1] Since then, the paper has used a number of locations as its headquarters, including Pioche, Caliente, and Panaca [6] but has been based in Alamo as of 2025. [7]

Patrick Holland was one of the paper's first proprietors with founder Pitchford. [8] A few months later the paper was issued by Holland and Mr. Simpson. [9] In August 1872, editor P. Frank Kenyon disposed of his interests, leaving Pat Holland as sole owner of the Record. [10] Kenyon left to form a rival paper with W.B. Taylor called the Daily Pioche Review. [11] That September, Holland expanded the paper into a daily and renamed it to the Pioche Daily Record. [12]

In 1906, H.E. Freudenthal purchased the Record. [13] Later that year he leased it to Eugene Goodrich and William Orr. [14] In 1908, Lewis H. Beason, mining editor of the Deseret News, purchased the Record from Orr and Goodrich. [15] Following Beason, the paper was acquired by Oliver R. Nation in 1918, [16] A.A. Sherman in 1919, [17] and Edgar L. Nores and F.E. Brown in 1920. [18]

In June 1925, the Pioche Record and Caliente Weekly News were merged to form the Lincoln County Record. S.D. Perry was editor and manager. [19] In 1949, a fire destroyed the paper's office. [20] The paper continued publication without missing a deadline by using the presses of other nearby papers. [21] Nores published the paper until his death in 1960. [22]

Thomas L. Clay bought the paper about 1970 and ran it until his death in 1979. Connie Simkins was the editor from 1979 until retiring in 2008. [23] In 2010, Stephens Media, owner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal , purchased the paper. [24] [6] In 2011, local reporter Rachel Williford won first place as a Journalist of Merit from the Nevada Press Association. [25]

In 2012, the company sold the Record to Battle Born Media. [26] In 2015, the UNLV University Libraries digitized and moved past issues of the paper online as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program. [27] Battle Born planned to close the paper in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic until long-term managing editor Ben Rowley purchased it. [2] [7] As of 2024, publishing legal notices provided about 35% of the paper's income. [28]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Vaughan, Jason; Lampert, Cory; Michel, Peter (2020). "Pioche, Nevada". Nevada Digital Newspaper Project. National Digital Newspaper Program. UNLV University Libraries. Library of Congress & National Endowment for the Humanities . Retrieved April 5, 2025– via WordPress.
  2. 1 2 Appleton, Rory (March 21, 2020). "Coronavirus crisis strikes blow to Nevada rural newspapers". Las Vegas Review-Journal . News + Media Capital Group. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Lincoln County Record". Mondo Times . Boulder, Colorado. 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Lincoln County Record". Muck Rack . Miami. February 7, 2025. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  5. 1 2 Schmitt, Jordan (September 28, 2022). "OHIO viscom student explores community journalism while interning for Lincoln County Record". OHIO Today . Athens, Ohio: Ohio University . Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 "Historic Pioche, Nevada". Pioche: Nevada's Original Old West Town. Pioche Chamber of Commerce. January 31, 2025. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  7. 1 2 Sauvageau, Carly (January 19, 2024). "Ely Times and Eureka Sentinel will be sold, turned to digital-only publications". Nevada Independent . Las Vegas: Nevada News Bureau. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  8. ↑ "The Ely Record". Gold Hill Daily News. Gold Hill, Nevada. September 30, 1870. p. 2.
  9. ↑ "Ely District". Gold Hill Daily News. November 4, 1870. p. 2.
  10. ↑ "Notice". The Daily Appeal. Carson City, Nevada. August 21, 1872. p. 2.
  11. ↑ "Notice". Gold Hill Daily News. August 22, 1872. p. 2.
  12. ↑ "Pioche Daily Record". The Daily Appeal. Carson City, Nevada. September 23, 1872. p. 3.
  13. ↑ "Pioche Record". Las Vegas Age. January 13, 1906. p. 1.
  14. ↑ "The Record Leased". The Pioche Record. March 1, 1907. p. 1.
  15. ↑ "Pioche Record Changes Hands". Tonopah Daily Bonanza. December 30, 1908. p. 4.
  16. ↑ "Pioche Record Sold". The Goldfield News and Weekly Tribune. Goldfield, Nevada. February 16, 1918. p. 6.
  17. ↑ "The Pioche Record Has New Owner". The Pioche Record. February 28, 1919. p. 1.
  18. ↑ "Record Now Under New Management". The Pioche Record. September 10, 192. p. 1.
  19. ↑ "Nevada Newspapers Are Consolidated". Nevada State Journal. Reno, Nevada. June 29, 1925. p. 6.
  20. ↑ "Fire Destroys Plant of Pioche Record But Publisher Hopes to Meet Deadline". Nevada State Journal. Reno, Nevada. August 4, 1949. p. 3.
  21. ↑ "State Newspapers Aid Pioche Record". Nevada State Journal. Reno, Nevada. August 28, 1949. p. 10.
  22. ↑ "Edgar L. Nores, Prominent State Leader, Stricken". Reno Gazette-Journal. March 22, 1960. p. 1.
  23. ↑ "History". Pioche Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved January 6, 2026.
  24. ↑ "Briefly | Stephens Media Buys Rural Paper". Reno Gazette-Journal. October 12, 2010. p. 6.
  25. ↑ "Nevada Press Association 2011 award winners". Las Vegas Review-Journal . Stephens Media. Associated Press. October 16, 2011. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  26. ↑ "Stephens Media sells Lincoln County Record". Las Vegas Review-Journal . Stephens Media. April 3, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  27. ↑ Kintop, Jeff (November 20, 2015). "Two More Nevada Newspaper Archives Searchable Online". Nevada Press Association . Carson City, Nevada. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
  28. ↑ Sauvageau, Carly (March 31, 2024). "For rural papers as old as Nevada itself, a fight for survival in digital age". Nevada Independent . Las Vegas: Nevada News Bureau. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
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