Moorefield Examiner

Moorefield ExaminerType| Weekly

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Format| Broadsheet
Owner(s)| Mountain Media, LLC
Founded| 1874[1]
Headquarters| 132 S Main St, Moorefield, Hardy County, WV 26836
Circulation| 3,818[2]
ISSN| 0740-2651
OCLC number| 9921953
Website| hardylive.com

The Moorefield Examiner is an American weekly newspaper serving Hardy County, West Virginia.[3] It is owned by Mountain Media, LLC and has a circulation of 3,818.[4]

## History

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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] His daughter, Phoebe F. Heishman took over as editor and publisher, and was later joined by her husband David, and their children James and Hannah. The Heishman's owned the paper as the R.E. Fisher Company, Inc. until it was sold to Mountain Media, LLC in 2024.[10]

## Related Pages

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* List of newspapers in West Virginia

## Resources

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1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "Moorefield Paper Owners To Resume Publication".
8. ^ a b "Publisher's Service Set Tomorrow". Cumberland Evening Times. September 30, 1968.
9. ^ West Virginia History, Volumes 51-52. State Department of Archives and History. 1992. p. 81.
10. ^ "Moorefield Examiner on Mountain Media, LLC Website". Moorefield Examiner.

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