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That company owns several other newspapers including the Rochelle News Leader, The Ogle County LIFE and The Mendota Reporter are Illinois newspapers that are owned by NewsMedia Corporation. The Journal is published twice a week, each Tuesday and Friday. In addition, a Saturday Advertiser is published.
News Media Corporation was founded in 1975 by John C. Tompkins when at age 21 he purchased The Rochelle News-Leader. [4]The company purchased The Clinton Daily Journal in 1980 [5] and acquired Lindsey Publishing and seven of its Wyoming newspapers in 1987.
With Calvary Cemetery running out of room, Resurrection cemetery was established in 1940. [1] Archbishop John Gregory Murray consecrated the cemetery on June 30, 1940. [2] With land in Minnesota rapidly being purchased, and seeing the need to secure land for Catholic burials, Archbishop Austin Dowling had purchased 350 acres of prairie in Mendota for $400,000 some years prior.
Eric Paulsen, the legendary WWL news anchor, died on Saturday following a battle with cancer. He served the Greater New Orleans community for over 40 years.
Phil Jones, a CBS News correspondent for more than 30 years, has died. He was 87. Jones died over the weekend at his home in Florida. He leaves behind a son, Paul, and a daughter, Pam.
Mike Downey, a sports columnist in Detroit and Chicago before writing for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years, died of a heart attack at age 72.
Mendota is a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States, in the state's north-central region. The population was 7,061 at the 2020 census. [ 4 ] It is part of the Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area .
John Richard Drury (January 4, 1927 – November 25, 2007) was an American television news anchor from Chicago, Illinois.Drury is most known for serving as anchor on Chicago news broadcasts which included: WGN-TV from 1967 to 1970 and again from 1979 until 1984; WLS-TV from 1970 to 1979 and 1984 until his retirement in 2002.