Moorefield Examiner

The Moorefield Examiner is an American weekly newspaper serving Hardy County, West Virginia.[3] It is owned by R.E. Risher Co. Inc. and has a circulation of 3,818.[4]

Moorefield Examiner
Typetwice-weekly
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)R.E. Risher Co. Inc.
PublisherMr. and Mrs. David O. Heishman
EditorPhoebe F. Heishman
Founded1874[1]
Headquarters132 S Main St, Moorefield, Hardy County, WV 26836
Circulation3,818[2]
ISSN0740-2651
OCLC number9921953
Websitehardylive.com

History

While claiming antecedents dating back to 1845,[5] the Examiner itself was founded in 1874 by Samuel D. Gordon.[1] It quickly became the leading democratic newspaper in the South Branch Valley, and was in those early years the only newspaper published in Hardy county.[6]

Sam McCoy's son-in-law, Ralph E. Fisher, took over the paper in 1935 after Sam's death,[7][8] with Sam's wife Eunice as co-publisher.[9] For five years it was run as a co-op while Fisher was on active duty in the Navy.[7] Fisher died of a heart attack, at age 62, in 1968.[8] Since that time the paper has been run by his daughter. Phoebe F. Heishman, her husband David, and their son James.[10] The paper's website claims the newspaper is Hardy County's only locally owned and operated newspaper.[10]

Resources
  1. "Weekly Examiner". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.
  2. 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  3. "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.
  4. 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  5. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Library of Congress. 1962.
  6. Pettengill's Newspaper Directory and Advertisers' Handbook. S.M. Pettengill & Company. 1878.
  7. "Moorefield Paper Owners To Resume Publication".
  8. "Publisher's Service Set Tomorrow". Cumberland Evening Times. 30 September 1968.
  9. West Virginia History, Volumes 51-52. State Department of Archives and History. 1992. p. 81.
  10. "About". Moorefield Examiner.


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