Princeton Times

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Princeton Times
Type Weekly newspaper
Owner(s)Community Newspaper Holdings
Founded1961
Headquarters213 South Walker Street, Princeton, WV
Circulation 1,390(as of 2016) [1]
Website ptonline.net


The Princeton Times is a newspaper serving Princeton, West Virginia, and surrounding Mercer County. [2] Published weekly on Fridays, [3] it has a circulation of 1,390 and is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings. [4]

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History

The paper was launched as a daily in July 1961 with the help of Mercer County residents, 300 of whom bought stock in the new venture. [5] Howard Imboden was set up as publisher. The paper was soon sold to southern firm holding over 30 local newspapers, citing need for more capital investment. [5] It dropped its Sunday edition in 1963 and shifted to weekly publication in August 1964. [6]

In August 2018, the paper took third place for its division in General Excellence in the West Virginia Press Association's Better Newspaper Awards. [7]

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References

  1. 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  2. "Newspapers Currently Received in the West Virginia Archives and History Library" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. State of West Virginia. December 2016.
  3. "About Us". Princeton Times. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  4. 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Southern Firm Buys Mercer Paper". Beckley Post-Herald. 20 January 1963.
  6. "Princeton Times, A Daily, To Become Weekly Paper". Beckley Post-Herald. 6 August 1964.
  7. "Register-Herald scores with W.Va. Press Association". Register-Herald. 12 August 2018.