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The Wetumpka Herald is a weekly newspaper serving Elmore County, Alabama. History. The Herald was founded in 1898, as The Weekly Herald by Howell Rose Golson. He was ...
Alabama's first state organization of African American newspapers was the Alabama Colored Press Association, which was founded by the editors of nine papers in 1887. [2] However, the association ceased to function after two years, due to many of its key members having been driven out of the state by racist violence. [ 2 ]
The Decatur Daily is a daily (five days a week) newspaper serving Decatur, Alabama and the Tennessee Valley in the North Alabama area of the United States.As of September 30, 2006, it had an average daily circulation of 20,824 and a Sunday circulation of 23,840.
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
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Wetumpka (US: / w ɪ ˈ t ʌ m k ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Elmore County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census , the population was 7,220. [ 2 ] In the early 21st century, Elmore County became one of the fastest-growing counties in the state. [ 3 ]
In December, 1969, Paul Osborne purchased the newspaper from Dr. V.W. Powell [3] who had founded it one year earlier. [4] [5] It is a member of the Illinois Press Association and the Southern Illinois Editorial Association. The newspaper is a subscription publication, published once a week on Wednesday and distributed through the USPS and online.
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]