Owatonna People's Press

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Owatonna People's Press
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Type Daily newspaper
FormatPrint (4 days a week)
Owner(s) Adams Publishing Group
PublisherRandy Rickman
Founded1874
Language American English
Headquarters135 W Pearl St Owatonna, Minnesota Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
CityOwatonna
CountryUnited States
Circulation 2,962(as of 2024) [1]
ISSN 0890-2860
OCLC number 1776134
Website owatonna.com

The Owatonna People's Press is a four-day daily newspaper serving Owatonna, Minnesota and surrounding communities and is considered the paper of record for Steele County. The Owatonna Area Shopper is also published in and around Owatonna. [2] [3]

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History

The People's Press was founded on September 2, 1874 by Benjamin E. Darby as a weekly four-page paper. [4]

Darby would serve as newspaper editor for 65 years, from 1874 until 1939.

The first issue of the Press, which predated public lighting in Owatanna, included a lengthy recounting of a county Convention that nominated candidates for various county offices. [5]

The paper was expanded to ten pages of news and advertising in 1900 when railroad lines began intersecting Owatonna.

Darby added a daily edition in 1916 named the Daily People's Press and discontinued the weekly edition in 1921.

In 1938, Darby bought and consoldiated the Steel County pioneer weekly Owatonna Journal-Chronicle to the Press.

In 1969, the name of the paper was officially changed to the Owatonna People's Press. [6]


Publishers

The Owatonna People's Press is currently published by Adams Publishing Group Inc. based out of Coon Rapids, Minnesota and printed in Princeton, Minnesota.

Once a morning daily, the People's Press reduced its frequency to four days a week as of February 2021, transitioned to an afternoon delivery schedule and regionalized coverage.

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References

  1. ↑ "Minnesota Newspaper Directory 2024" (PDF). Minnesota Newspaper Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 15, 2024. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
  2. ↑ "About Owatonna people's press. [volume] (Owatonna, Minn.) 1969-current". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Owatonna People's Press" (PDF). Minnesota Newspaper Association, Directory. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  4. ↑ Curtiss-Wedge, Franklyn (1910). History of Rice and Steele counties, Minnesota. Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr.
  5. ↑ Curtiss-Wedge, Frankly (1910). History of Rice and Steel Counties, Minnesota. Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr. p. 778.
  6. ↑ "Daily People's Press". www.mnhs.org. Retrieved 31 March 2024.{{cite web}}: Text "Minnesota Historical Society" ignored (help)


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