Paradise Post
The Paradise Post is a twice-a-week newspaper in Paradise, California.[1] The newspaper is part of the Digital First Media corporation. It has a circulation of about 7,000, and publishes Wednesday and Saturday. HistoryIn September 1945, the Paradise Post was founded by Linn J. Potter as a weekly newspaper.[2] The business opened its own printing plant in March 1946.[3] It soon expanded to a twice weekly.[4] In June 1946 was sold to Charles Haines Comfort, an advertisement salesman and columnist at The Chico Record.[4] Comfort sold the business in February 1947 to Carl Starkey, the night city editor at the Record.[5] Starkey operated the Post for about two years until selling it in March 1949 so he could enroll in college. The new owner was Charles Utt, of San Francisco.[6] Utt ran the paper until his death and then his widow a year later sold it in March 1965 to Lee Kenworthy and Troy L. Maness, who previously ran The Willits News.[7] In December 1977, a small investment group headed by Post editor James A. Fallbeck acquired the paper from Maness.[8] It was announced a few months later that Lowell Blankfort and Rebele Rowland, owners of the Chula Vista Star-News, were also part of the new ownership group.[9] In 2003, Blankfort and Rowland sold the Post to MediaNews Group. At that time the paper had a circulation of 8,000.[10] References
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