The ''Edmonson News'', also known by its alternative title ''The Gimlet'', is a
weekly newspaper
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based in
Brownsville, Kentucky
Brownsville is a List of cities in Kentucky, home rule-class city in Edmonson County, Kentucky, Edmonson County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the county seat and is a certified Kentucky Trail Town. The population was 836 at the time of ...
, and serving
Edmonson County
Edmonson County is a County (United States), county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 12,126. Its county seat and only municipality is Browns ...
in west-central
Kentucky
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, including Brownsville and surrounding communities. Although is published on Wednesdays every week (excluding the final week prior to New Year's Day), its date line on the front page is printed as the Thursday after publishing.
History
The Edmonson News was first established as ''The Edmonson County Newspaper'' by Perry Meloan in September 1927.
Weekly detail
kypress.com Bill Canty worked in partnership with Meloan until the latter man died in 1965. After Meloan's death, Canty took over the news paper. Bill Canty has been publishing the newspaper with weekly happenings in the area for a total of 50 years. His wife, Cathy joined the business after their 1971 marriage.
In the wake of Bill and Cathy Canty's retirement plans in 2016, the ''Edmonson News'' was purchased by Horse Cave-based Jobe Publishing, Inc., the owner of county newspapers in neighboring Barren
Barren primarily refers to a state of barrenness (infertility)
Barren may also refer to:
Places
* Barren, Missouri
*Barren County, Kentucky
*Barren Island (Andaman Islands)
* Barren Island, Brooklyn
* Barren River Lake
Other uses
* ''Barren Coun ...
, Butler
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, and Hart counties, along with two additional weekly newspapers in Metcalfe and Monroe Counties. The sale's was finalized on February 1, 2016.[ Editor's note: The news article cited was also featured on the front page of all five Jobe-owned newspapers in the week of January 13–14, 2016.] Along with a new front-page design, an online version of the ''Edmonson News'' was also made available to subscribers for the first time.
References
External links
Edmonson News on Facebook
Jobe Publishing
- default website for the company and its associated newspapers
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Edmonson County, Kentucky
Newspapers published in Kentucky
Newspapers established in 1927