Odd newspaper names where you live?

[alp227]

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Wanted to repost something I've posted elsewhere, about weird newspaper names that aren't the usual Daily News, Chronicle, Herald, Tribune, Times, Post, Press, etc. Here are some of the oddest or most anachronistic newspaper names I've seen when reading the news:

Right in my own backyard the local paper in San Jose, CA is named the Mercury News. And nearby in my region there are offbeat paper names: Argus (Fremont/Newark/Union City used to be in print now online only), Press Democrat (Santa Rosa), Bee (Sacramento, Fresno, AND Modesto...all those papers are McClatchy properties)

Then there are those I have no idea why they're called that way:
Avalanche (Lubbock, TX)
Boomerang (Laramie, WY)
Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, TX)
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Daily Miner (Kingman, AZ)
Eagle (Wichita, KS)
Greenwich Time (actually exists in Greenwich, CT, a paper that shares a name with a time zone!)
Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH)
Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Roundup (Payson, AZ...farm town I guess)
Star-Advertiser (Honolulu, HI)
Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ)
State (Columbia, SC)
Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA) (what's a picayune?)
Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)

Then there are demonym named papers:
American-Statesman (Austin, TX)
Californian (Salinas, CA)
Missoulan (Missoula, MT - home of the University of Montana)
Oregonian (Portland, OR)

And isn't it weird to see papers that still use Telegram in their names even though the telegraph has been out of modern lexicon for the past 50 years at least, such as the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Worcester Telegram and Gazette? Or others that keep time of day in their name despite newspapers no longer printing by time of day like the Morning News in Dallas, TX or Morning Call in Allentown, PA.

Not to mention newspapers with "Democrat" or "Republican" in their names - for example the daily paper in Springfield, MA (not exactly in a right wing region) is called the Republican, then the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette of Little Rock (serving a red state of course), the Press Democrat in Santa Rosa (fitting as the Bay Area = super blue part of a blue state). in 2006 the Tribune-Democrat in Johnstown, PA considered dropping "Democrat" from the name.

[Scuba]

1. The Broadcaster-Censor, Vernon County, Wisconsin

Censor? For a newspaper?

[PuffedMica]

2. The Leaf Chronicle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarksville_Leaf-Chronicle

It is the local paper for Clarksville, Tennessee and is near Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

[NV Whino]

3. The St Helena Star

Napa Register
Calistogan

I've always been fascinated by the Post Intelligencer. Strange name. Another one I've loved is The Daily Breeze from Manhattan Beach.

[HeiressofBickworth]

7. Seattle Post-Intelligencer

was the result of a merger between the Daily Intelligencer (which started in 1863) and the Seattle Post in 1881. William Hurst bought it in 1924 and the Hurst Corporation owns it still. It published under a Joint Operating Agreement with the Seattle Times from 1983 to 2009. It became on-line only in 2012.

Personally, I always read the Seattle Times until last year when it donated time, money and resources to advertising the campaign of Republican Rod McKenna for governor; over and above a mere editorial recommendation. He lost. I saw the fiasco as a breach of journalism standards (if there are any left).

[Kali]

4. the Tombstone Epitaph

Tombstone, AZ


Also the Wilcox Range News - ranch country, same as Payson (Roundup - as in gathering cattle, not as in a Monsanto product)

[LiberalEsto]

5. I worked at the Newark Star-Ledger years ago

Here's how its name evolved:

"The Newark Daily Advertiser, founded in 1832, was Newark's first daily newspaper. It subsequently evolved into the Newark Star-Eagle, owned by what eventually became Block Communications. S. I. Newhouse bought the Star-Eagle from Block and merged it with the Newark Ledger, which he'd bought in 1939, to become the Newark Star-Ledger."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Ledger

I would guess many of the odd names result from mergers.

[grilled onions]

6. While We See Many Non Exciting Names...

what would be a good name? It should be a name the represents the truth (even if it hurts). It should represent the modern, progressive thinking and one that would tackle subjects like gays,mixed marriage and abortion, with ease. Naturally I am not thinking of a paper that thinks like the other side--still talking about issues that should have been forgotten and still idolizing past leaders with a desire to have them carved in stone. Gee I wonder who I am thinking about!