The ''Crookwell Gazette'' is an English language newspaper published in

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. It was first published in 1885 and was also known as ''"The Crookwell Gazette and Binda, Golspie, Cullen, Laggan, Peelwool, Taralga, Tuena and Wheeo Advertiser"'', and as ''"The Crookwell Gazette and Settlers' Advocate"''. Some issues of the paper have been digitised as part of the

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of the

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Newspaper history

The first edition of the paper was circulated on 3 October 1885 by proprietor W. H. Oram. Robert Howland took over as proprietor in 1890, a position he held until his death in 1902. His son Robert A. Howland was the manager and editor. The paper was subsequently published by Robert John Winning, who also owned the ''

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''. Following the death of Robert Winning on 6 December 1933, his son John Robert Winning took over as publisher. In December 1949 the Bradley family assisted Jim Woods in buying the paper from Winning. From 1965 the paper was leased by the Bradley/Woods partnership to Brian Dennis until 1983 when printing and production was transferred to ''

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''. On 31 December 1995 the paper was sold to Rural Press Ltd. In December 2006,

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announced a takeover of Rural Press. As December 2018, the ''Crookwell Gazette'' is published both in print and online by Australian Community Media.

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